Are you guys going to hold still for Obama's recess appointments?
At the same time, the Reagan administration had named six other board members as recess appointments.
Recess appointments are, of course, perfectly legal, but that does not make the president's choice any better.
Hall was earlier appointed in a recess appointment to the same position on January 4, 2006.
They have also been used to prevent presidents from making recess appointments.
Recess appointments themselves have been used numerous times by various presidents.
He began serving as a commissioner on October 8, 2003, under a recess appointment.
President Obama's decision today to make four controversial "recess" appointments is cause for concern.
This was the first time that the Senate had rejected a presidential recess appointment.
That happened yesterday when the president used a recess appointment, which does not require confirmation by the Senate, to give him the job.