g*********o
发帖数: 4653 | 1 这个新闻在一些当地小报上是题目这样报道的。
当奈特和汉奸老将不停指责别的国家独裁专政的时候，黑总统也开始更加独裁了哦
这怎么回事呢？
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/01/05/obama-
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — Defying congressional Republicans, President Barack
Obama appointed Richard Cordray yesterday to head a new consumer-protection
agency.
The decision to install Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau without Senate approval rankled Republicans in part
because they say the U.S. Senate is not on recess. The U.S. Constitution
permits such appointments only when the Senate is not in session.
Obama, whose re-election bid this year is quickly taking shape as a contrast
between him and his Republican counterparts in Congress, announced the
appointment in Cordray’s home state. Ohio’s former attorney general was on
stage with the president in front of more than 1,200 people at Shaker
Heights High School in suburban Cleveland.
Obama nominated Cordray in July to head a bureau designed to give consumers
better information about financial services and watch for unfair, deceptive
or abusive acts or practices by financial companies, including credit-card
providers and mortgage companies.
But last month the Senate refused to confirm Cordray, with Ohio’s Sen. Rob
Portman and more than 40 other Republican senators using a filibuster to
prevent a floor vote.
“Every day that Richard waited to be confirmed ... was another day when
millions of Americans were left unprotected,” Obama said yesterday. “
Because without a director in place, the consumer-watchdog agency we’ve set
up doesn’t have the tools it needs to prevent dishonest mortgage brokers,
payday lenders and debt collectors from taking advantage of consumers, and
that’s inexcusable. It’s wrong. And I refuse to take ‘no’ for an answer.”
Cordray was scheduled to be sworn into office last night by Judge Kate O’
Malley, a federal appeals court judge originally from Ohio.
“Now that I’m director, we will have the full authority to protect the
American consumer, and we’re going to do just that,” Cordray said last
night in a telephone interview. “We needed a director; we now have a
director.”
Cordray said that although he would work full time in Washington, he would
continue to commute on weekends from his home in Grove City.
Republicans, including House Speaker John Boehner of West Chester, quickly
denounced Obama’s appointment of Cordray as a power grab and potentially
illegal.
The dispute centers on the Senate’s status and the procedural moves taken
by the GOP to prevent such appointments.
Because the House has not permitted the Senate to recess, the Senate has
scheduled informal sessions every third day, where no official business is
conducted. The Senate briefly recessed Tuesday but is not expected to
convene for official business until Jan. 23.
Republicans insist that those “pro forma” Senate sessions legally prohibit
Obama from making a recess appointment, citing past statements made by
Obama when he was a Democrat in the U.S. Senate and by current Democratic
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
“This recess appointment represents a sharp departure from a long-standing
precedent that has limited the president to recess appointments only when
the Senate is in a recess of 10 days or longer,” said Republican Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. “Breaking from this precedent
lands this appointee in uncertain legal territory, threatens the
confirmation process and fundamentally endangers the Congress’s role in
providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch.”
On a conference call, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus
said, “The Senate is not in recess, and there’s not a person on the face
of the Earth who can say it is.”
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, meanwhile, called the new
agency “perhaps the most powerful and unaccountable bureaucracy in the
history of our nation,” and said Obama’s appointment “represents Chicago-
style politics at its worst.”
Portman called Cordray “a good public servant,” but said he was concerned
that the new agency lacked appropriate congressional oversight. He said
Obama’s move was an example of “dramatic partisan overreach.”
The White House pushed back, calling the pro forma sessions a “gimmick”
and contending that legal counsel for both Obama and former President George
W. Bush said that the Senate’s informal sessions could not prevent a
recess appointment.
By making the recess appointment yesterday instead of Tuesday — after the
second session of the 112th Congress convened — Obama essentially appointed
Cordray to a two-year term, instead of a one-year term. The Constitution
says recess appointments conclude at the end of the next session, in this
case, the session of Congress that begins in 2013. The recess appointment
could also conclude, however, if Cordray is confirmed by the Senate.
“This could give him almost two years,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor
at the University of Richmond in Virginia
Cordray, 52, who lost his re-election bid as attorney general to Republican
Mike DeWine in 2010 and previously served as state treasurer, told reporters
that “we’re gonna begin working to expand our program to nonbanks, which
is an area we haven’t been able to touch up until now,” before he was
pulled away by White House press secretary Jay Carney.
Obama, in making his case for Cordray’s recess appointment, highlighted a
visit he and Cordray made earlier yesterday to the Cleveland-area home of
Endia and William Eason, who the White House said nearly lost their home
because of predatory lending by a mortgage broker about 10 years ago. Obama
also said Republicans weren’t opposed to Cordray specifically, citing
bipartisan support for Cordray among attorney generals across the nation.
“I have an obligation to act on behalf of the American people,” Obama said
. “I will not stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology
ahead of the people that we were elected to serve.”
Of Cordray, Obama cracked: “Rich is a really nice guy. You know, you look
at him and you think, this guy’s not somebody who’s going around picking
fights, and yet, this fight on behalf of consumers is something Richard has
been waging here in Ohio for the better part of two decades.”
Democrats applauded the move yesterday. Both Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Copley,
and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown accused Republicans of siding with “Wall Street
” instead of allowing Cordray’s nomination to get a vote last year.
Concluding his speech, the president said:
“I know you’re hearing a lot of promises from a lot of politicians lately,
but today, you’re only going to hear one from me. As long as I have the
privilege of serving as your president, I promise to do everything I can,
every day, to make this country a place where hard work and responsibility
mean something — where everyone can get ahead, not just those at the very
top or those who know how to work the system.” |
|
