What Are Recess Appointments and How Might Trump Use Them to ...

Earlier this week, Trump urged Senate leaders to be willing to agree to recess appointments in order to expedite his administration ...

The president threatened to adjourn both chambers of Congress in order to appoint nominees who have yet to be approved by the Senate.

Recess appointments require 10-day Senate adjournment, historically used to fill vacancies during long congressional breaks. GOP senators weigh ...

GOP lawmakers should just give Trump his recess appointments. Don't bother the poor man with things he hates, like 'norms' and 'the ...

Lightning-rod nominations increase stakes for Trump's demand that the Senate allow him to install some appointees without confirmation.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to ...

The use of recess appointments to install members of Donald Trump's Cabinet would circumvent a key Senate process, ...

President-elect Donald Trump said he wants to fill his Cabinet by using recess appointments. CBS News political reporter Hunter Woodall ...

How do recess appointments work – and why is Donald Trump pushing to bypass the Senate's role in vetting presidential appointments?

293 votes, 63 comments. Supposedly he is demanding this because he wants to push through his appointments without having to wait for a ...

It's a route that is likely more precarious and cumbersome for a GOP majority that will have 53 seats and confirm nominees with a simple ...

(WASHINGTON) — Even though Jeff Sessions has indicated he has no intention of leaving his post, President Donald Trump's continued public ...

As Senate Republicans prepare to vote Wednesday on a new majority leader, Trump is already weighing in with demands for recess appointments.

President-elect Donald Trump is urging the next Senate majority leader to support recess appointments, a move that would allow him to bypass ...

President-elect Trump demanded the next Senate GOP leader allow him to make recess appointments, which would let him fast-track his nominees ...

Donald Trump and Joe Biden have made no recess appointments during their presidencies because of a Supreme Court ruling and the Senate's ...

... Trump wading into the Senate Republican leadership fight, and how he is using a demand of the Senate recess appointments as a way to not ...

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Claire McCaskill, former Democrat Senator from Missouri, Charlie Sykes, MSNBC Columnist and Contributor and Vaughn Hillyard, ...

President-elect Donald Trump involved himself publicly in the Senate leadership race for the first time, writing in a post on TruthSocial ...