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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:33 am Post subject: Obama criticizes Republicans for delaying confirmation vote |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020303801.html
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President Obama criticized senators Wednesday for using a legislative tactic he once practiced himself, saying that Republicans were delaying confirmation votes on several of his nominees for reasons unrelated to their qualifications.
"We've got a huge backlog of folks who are unanimously viewed as well qualified -- nobody has a specific objection to them -- but end up having a hold on them because of some completely unrelated piece of business," Obama said at a question-and-answer session during the Senate Democratic Conference, held at the Newseum.
Senate rules allow members to place a hold on nominees -- to block their consideration by the chamber -- at any time for any reason. Such holds are often placed privately, making it exceedingly difficult for those outside the Senate to track their use, and they can be a powerful tool to influence the executive branch.
News reports indicate that Obama, as a senator from Illinois, placed holds on at least three Bush administration nominees amid policy disagreements or concerns about their qualifications. |
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In 2005, a year after his election to the Senate, Obama placed a hold on Susan Bodine to lead the Environmental Protection Agency office that oversees Superfund and emergency cleanup programs because the agency had missed a deadline on new regulations for lead paint exposure.
In September 2006, Obama and Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) blocked Robert L. Wilkie's nomination as a Defense Department assistant secretary over a long-delayed Pentagon report on Midwestern wind farms.
And Obama joined with other Democrats in October 2007 to block the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky to the Federal Election Commission. Von Spakovsky later withdrew; Wilkie and Bodine were eventually confirmed. |
Paging pot calling the kettle black. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| Obstruction needs to stop on both sides of the aisle. Filibusters need to be gone, holds on nominations need to be gone, procedural obstruction in general needs to be gone. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:50 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
| Obstruction needs to stop on both sides of the aisle. Filibusters need to be gone, holds on nominations need to be gone, procedural obstruction in general needs to be gone. |
definity, I agree with you. It'll never happen. It's an endless cycle. |
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