President Obama and Senate Republicans have reached a tentative truce on recess appointments despite wariness over past Obama abuses of his recess appointment powers.
The Washington Times reports:
Congress is taking its first real recess in nearly a year after the House and Senate agreed on Friday to a two-week adjournment for Easter—and a test of whether President Obama will abide by an agreement not to make any recess appointments while lawmakers are gone.
Since last April, the House has convened at least every three days which, under a provision of the Constitution, forced the Senate to come back into session as well. House Republicans had used the maneuver to try to prevent Mr. Obama from using his recess-appointment powers.
In January, however, Mr. Obama ignored that move and invoked those powers to install several contentious nominees, sparking legal challenges that are working their way through the courts.