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Harry Reid Will Ask Obama To Recess Appoint All Nominees If GOP Delays Continue

02-19-2012 • by Amanda Lang

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fired a warning shot to Republicans on Friday: Stop blocking President Barack Obama's executive branch nominees or I'll ask him to bypass the Senate and recess appoint all of them. 'If something doesn't break here, I am going to recommend to the president he recess appoint all these people, every one of them. It's not unique. The power to recess appoint is in our Constitution,' Reid said on the Senate floor. 'These are the president's nominations and he should have the right to have these people working in his administration.' Reid then proceeded to read through a list of stalled executive branch nominees and, just to make the point that Republicans have no intention of letting them advance, he objected to all of them himself.