The talks are currently in recess after both sides agreed a deal on agrarian reform.
Recess appointments are allowed by the constitution only when the Senate is in recess.
With Congress in recess, there were no major demonstrations planned in the nation's capital.
Well, he used his executive constitutional power to appoint Cordray while Congress was in recess.
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The Constitution allows for such appointments without Senate approval when Congress is in recess.
But staff-level conversations are taking place this week while the House is in recess.
But according to the Democrat majority controlled Senate, the Senate was not in recess on January 4.
Both chambers are scheduled to be in recess for part of next week, to mark Veteran's Day.
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Who is the Vice President talking to as the House is in recess?
The ruling said that the Senate was not technically in recess when the appointments to the NLRB were made.
But after Chagaev was named "champion in recess", Valuev regained his crown when he beat John Ruiz in August 2008.
Congress is in recess this week, leaving little time to negotiate a budget solution ahead of the 1 March deadline.
After their humiliation at the polls, opposition leaders were conciliatory, offering to declare Congress in recess to avoid clashes with the assembly.
The Senate was no more in recess than if they had gone home on Friday night to return the next Monday for work!
The last day of the session is oftentimes spent in recess or sitting on the chamber floor as final issues are worked out.
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With Congress in recess and Washington largely abandoned last week, the FCC issued three major orders, comprising some four hundred pages of dense text.
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In the very press release put out by a Republican congresswoman arguing against the recess appointment, she acknowledged that the Senate was in recess.
Maybe that's why Congress, currently in recess for two weeks, has only 89 legislative days scheduled this year, fewer than any year in recent memory.
Former Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum said yesterday Obama was trying to go above the law because Congress was not technically in recess.
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Chagaev was given the label of "champion in recess" by the WBA after he failed to defend his title on two occasions against Valuev because of injury.
The Commons is now in recess for seven weeks and it's a chance for MPs to have a bit of a holiday and reconnect with their constituents.
The fact of the matter is -- and again, if you have any doubts, please head up to the Hill and check out for yourself -- Congress is in recess.
Ratcheting up pressure on Republicans with Congress in recess for Presidents Day week, White House spokesman Jay Carney announced Thursday that Obama had phoned Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The trip comes as Congress is in recess and as the lawmakers wrap up a bill designed to secure the border and put 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.
The company argued that, as the Senate was not technically in recess at the time of the appointments, the board had not been legally constituted and that a quorum did not exist.
And there have been a number of rather enlightening instances in the past 24 hours of confirmation by unusual sources of the fact that the House and Senate are indeed in recess.
Ratcheting up pressure on Republicans with Congress in recess for Presidents Day week, White House spokesman Jay Carney announced Thursday that Obama had phoned House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
"It's a shame on Congress that we are going in recess when we have to deal and have not dealt with the issue of high energy prices, " said Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, on Thursday.
No date for that testimony has yet been set and Congress is in recess until Jan. 21, meaning that she may have to stay on as secretary of state for another week or so after Obama's inauguration on that day.
In a particular surprise, two of the three judges also ruled that recess appointments are only allowed to fill vacancies that arise during the time the Senate is in actual recess.
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