When it comes to President Obama's appointment of RichardCordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,congressional Republicans think Obama has some explaining todo.
|Both House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus(R-Ala.) and Sen. Charles Grassley, the top Republican on theJudiciary Committee, have both written letters to Attorney GeneralEric Holder questioning the legality of the appointment.
|Bachus wrote Holder asking did “the White House seek the[Justice] Department's advice on any aspect of theappointment of Mr. Cordray.'' Bachus also asked whether thedepartment believes the Senate was “in recess,'' at the timeObama appointed Cordray last week.
|Grassley (R-Ia.), whose letter was also signed by seven otherRepublicans on the Judicviary Cimmittee, requested copies of anyadvice that the Justuice Department gave Obama on the legality ofthe appointment and also asked if the administration still standsby its 2010 positionm that Congress must be out of session forthree days to be considered to be in recess.
|Last Wednesday, Obama circumvented Senate Republicans and made a recess appointmentof Cordary to run the CFPB and also made three recess appointmentsto rthe National Labor Relations Board.
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