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Senate blocks Trump's ability to make recess appointments

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Senate blocks Trump's ability to make recess appointments

By Ashley Killough
August 4, 2017

Washington (CNN)The Senate left for its August break on Thursday, but it won't technically be in recess. And that will stop President Donald Trump from filling executive branch spots without senators' OK. Using a procedural tool often invoked by senators in the past, the Senate has set up a series pro forma sessions. Essentially, they'll gavel into session every few days -- perhaps even for just minutes at a time -- through Labor Day to keep the lights on. Concerns arose last month that the President might attempt to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoint a replacement of his choosing while the upper chamber was out during the August recess. The new attorney general would then be in charge of federal investigations into the 2016 presidential election and would have the power to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Washington (CNN)The Senate left for its August break on Thursday, but it won't technically be in recess. And that will stop President Donald Trump from filling executive branch spots without senators' OK. "If that comes to pass, we will have a constitutional crisis on our hands. The Senate should remove even the possibility of it coming about," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday, while making the case for pro forma sessions. Democrats would have been able to filibuster a motion to adjourn, helping push the pro forma session arrangement.
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Very few on the Hill trust the lying con artist in the Oval Office.
 
I'm sure his supporters will be along in a moment to tell us there would be absolutely nothing wrong and nothing fishy about a President who would go so far as to fire his Attorney General, reappoint a new one just to quash an investigation that may or may not show wrong doing by himself or his associates, and which by the way, he insists that he's done nothing wrong.

But normal people, yah know, intelligent people, people who can yah know, think, know that, that's not something a person would do if they weren't worried about something.
 
washunut said:
I think this proves that Trump does not have a working majority in the senate. Trump would be better served with Reid the liar (IMO) as majority leader. Or perhaps it just shows how much smarter Schumer is than McConnell.
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He has more than half on most occasions, but Democrats would have filibustered adjournment had Republicans attempted it.
 
danarhea said:
He has more than half on most occasions, but Democrats would have filibustered adjournment had Republicans attempted it.
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The GOP had no intention of adjourning. This was an everybody in scrum all on one side and Trump by his lonesome on the other.

The GOP has a majority in the Senate, Trump has nothing.
 
And who presided over the pro forma sessions?

Tensions appear to have eased, at least publicly, between Trump and Sessions. The President hasn't been making disparaging comments about his attorney general in recent days, and Sessions has seen wide support from members of Congress.
Still, the Senate went into a pro forma -- it's a Latin term meaning "as a matter of form" -- session anyway, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, presiding Thursday afternoon when the announcement was made.
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Payback is a bitch, ain't it?
 
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