House passes bill eliminating Senate confirmation for Presidential appointees, rewrites Article II of Constitution!

The House of Representatives is set to consider legislation Tuesday that would exempt certain presidential appointees from having to be confirmed by the Senate.

UPDATE: The House passed the legislation Tuesday night by a vote of 261-116. The bill now goes to President Obama’s desk for his signature.

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By a vote of 261-116, the House of Representatives passed a bill rewriting Article II of the Constitution and divesting the Senate of the power to accept or reject the appointment of many presidential nominees.

Last year, the Senate passed the measure by a vote of 79-20, so it now goes to the desk of President Obama for his signature.

"Important positions will be filled faster, government agencies will be more capable of offering valuable services to their constituents, and the overall confirmation process will be more efficient,” said Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Dozens of key management positions in the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Commerce, and Homeland Security (including the treasurer of the United States, the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, the director of the Office for Domestic Preparedness, and the assistant administrator of FEMA) will now be filled by presidential edict, without the need of the “advice and consent” of the Senate, a phrase specifically removed from the process in the text of the bill.

Although the House vote occurred on Tuesday, the Senate voted to surrender its constitutional check on the executive over a year ago on June 29, 2011.

Despite a last-minute attempt by some House leaders to put the measure to a voice vote, thus allowing members to vote in favor of the legislation without being listed on the record, a roll call vote was taken, and the name of every congressman who voted to unconstitutionally neuter the legislative branch is listed.

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FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 537

S 679 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 31-Jul-2012 7:06 PM
QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
BILL TITLE: To reduce the number of executive positions subject to Senate confirmation

[link to clerk.house.gov]




XML U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 112th Congress - 1st Session

Vote Counts: YEAs 79
NAYs 20
Not Voting 1


[link to www.senate.gov]

At what point does this go from sad to hilarious?

Govt can represent the people views on laws without fixing everything. If Americans had voted the banks would have been fixing their own damn problems.

They always have more than 1 agenda. The admin. branch can now use these jobs as a way to buy people off and repay political favors, the ones mentioned here are high paying positions with lots of cushy benefits.

Another step toward dictatorship

All 3 branches need to be purged of the corruption. Trials, shame and the loss of everything they own.

All 3 branches need to be purged of the corruption. Trials, shame and the loss of everything they own.

Another step toward dictatorship

I wonder what it feels like to cut off your own balls.

(1) CHIEF SCIENTIST; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

Dozens of key management positions in the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Commerce, and Homeland Security (including the treasurer of the United States, the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, the director of the Office for Domestic Preparedness, and the assistant administrator of FEMA) will now be filled by presidential edict, without the need of the “advice and consent” of the Senate, a phrase specifically removed from the process in the text of the bill.

A bill past by congress can't nulify the Constitution. This will end up in the Supreme Court. Hopefully the court will have pulled their heads out of their asses by then. If not, this is one one more step toward the revolution to reinstate the Constitutional government.

No, there's nothing within the system we could have done. Many times we've voted for candidates we considered least likely to do something like this, but they just lied in their campaign promises and did it anyway. Same as Obama lied. There's nothing to stop these guys from lying, and we can't seem to get decent candidates through to a general election, it's just one controlled candidate against another.

We tried, we continue to try. I challenge you to back up your statement and be explicit: what could we have done differently. We were not asleep, we were just powerless under the rules of the system that is actually in place.

Here's the actual text, help me pick it apart -

[link to thomas.loc.gov]


One Hundred Twelfth Congress

of the

United States of America

AT THE SECOND SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,

the third day of January, two thousand and twelve

An Act

To reduce the number of executive positions subject to Senate confirmation.

...

SEC. 2. PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS NOT SUBJECT TO SENATE APPROVAL.

(a) Agriculture-

(1) ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE FOR ADMINISTRATION- Section 218(b) of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6918(b)) is amended--


(2) RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR- Section 232(b)(1) of the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6942(b)(1)) is amended--

...

(3) COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION- Section 9(a) of the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714g(a)) is amended in the third sentence by striking `by and with the advice and consent of the Senate'.

(b) Commerce-

(1) CHIEF SCIENTIST; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION


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There's all sorts of stuff in it...

It will be more like Canada, where the Senate is non-elected and non-responsible.

Where did you think this was headed? The economic capital for the new American Union was decided upon, back in '89, to be Montreal. Three zones, remember - American Union, European Union and Asian Union. That was writ about already all the way back in the sixteen hundreds - Karl Marx, Das Kapital.

Do you still not get why the canadianisation going on?

:)

I think I recall WAAAAY too much time wasted on Senate confirmations of these positions. Lawmakers SHOULD have been busy doing other things, sadly, they spent MONTHS wasting time on this bullshit. Presidents should be able to appoint anyone they deem fit for the position. It's the privelage of the POTUS.
Where are all your precious Tea Party representatives that were going to clean up Washington DC?

Another step toward dictatorship

Another step toward dictatorship

Everyone stop getting your panties in a wad. The legislation may be unwise (don't know, haven't read it) but highly unlikely to be unconstitutional. INS v. Chadha and Morrison v. Olson have already made it clear (as if it could have been clearer) that principal officers must be confirmed by the Senate. All others are appointed however Congress says.

Read some con law once in awhile and you won't have so many strokes.