Consumer “Watchdog” Tailing Consumers
Many Americans are understandably unsettled by news reports about the National Security Agency’s widespread monitoring of telephone and Internet traffic. Attracting far less attention is… Read More
Cloakroom: Battle of the Budgets, Round 1
House Cloakroom: March 11 – March 15 Analysis: This week House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will release his 2014 budget resolution for markup in… Read More
Morning Bell: A Blow to Obama’s Imperial Presidency
President Obama has gone around Congress in as many ways as he can find. One way is by abusing the presidential power to make appointments… Read More
States and Organizations Fight to Preserve Liberty from Dodd-Frank Act Intrusions
The states of Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Carolina have sued the Obama Administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia over provisions… Read More
Morning Bell: Harry Reid Opts for Political Theater on Judicial Nominees
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has rightfully earned the reputation of running a do-nothing Senate. More than 1,000 days have elapsed since the upper chamber… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Continuing Assault on the Constitution
With tens of millions of Americans watching, Barack Obama stood at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2009, with his left… Read More
VIDEO: Obama ‘Manifestly Wrong’ on U.S. Constitution, Says Sen. Mike Lee
Few lawmakers have expressed as much outrage over President Obama’s unconstitutional “recess” appointments as Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT). He was among the first to warn… Read More
House Committee Examines Obama’s Unconstitutional Appointments
President Obama’s illegal non-recess appointments are unconstitutional and defy the process the Founding Fathers intended, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told a House committee Wednesday. The… Read More
Sen. Lee to Testify at Hearing on Illegal Non-Recess Appointments
A handful of constitutional law experts are slated to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee tomorrow about President Obama’s four unconstitutional non-recess… Read More
Two House Hearings Scheduled on Illegal Non-Recess Appointments
Two House committees have scheduled hearings on President Obama’s unconstitutional appointments of four federal officials earlier this month. On Tuesday, the financial services panel of… Read More
NLRB Appointee Will Continue to Receive Payments from Union
Financial disclosure documents filed by two of President Obama’s illegal appointments to the National Labor Relations Board show that one will continue to receive payments… Read More
Grassley Not Buying DOJ’s Non-Recess Appointment Apologia
Calling the president’s illegal non-recess appointments “an escalation in a pattern of contempt for the elected representatives of the American people,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA),… Read More
Whitewash on Illegal Appointments Won’t Work
The Obama Administration’s 23-page Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion rationalizing illegal appointments the President made last week, released this morning, falls far short of… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Arrogant Authoritarianism
Last week, President Barack Obama took the latest step on his road toward an arrogant, new authoritarianism with four illegal appointments that entirely trampled on… Read More
An Abuse of Power: President Obama’s “Recess” Appointments
President Obama’s stunning appointments of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and of three more bureaucrats to the National Labor Relations Board has… Read More
Mr. President: Why Refuse to Answer Whether the Justice Department Issued a Legal Opinion?
President Obama thinks he merely stretched his powers under the Constitution in making so-called recess appointments for three members of the National Labor Relations Board… Read More
Even Obama Agrees that the Senate Was Not in Recess
Defenders of President Obama’s unprecedented “recess” appointments of Richard Cordray to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three members to the National Labor Relations… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Tyrannical Abuse of Power
Standing behind a podium on a stage just outside Cleveland, President Barack Obama delivered a speech yesterday that will reverberate throughout history. No, its lasting… Read More
Members of Congress React to Obama’s Abuse of Power
The White House announced today that President Barack Obama plans to attempt a “recess appointment” of Richard Cordray to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in… Read More
Obama DOJ Undercuts President’s ‘Recess’ Appointment Stunt
The White House announced Wednesday that President Obama would recess-appoint Richard Cordray as chairman of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and three new members… Read More
Obama Confirms Unaccountability of Consumer Bureau
By circumventing the lawful confirmation process, President Obama’s attempted “recess appointment” today of Richard Cordray to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) demonstrates the… Read More
Flashback: Senator Outlines Objections to ‘Unaccountable’ Consumer Czar
Last fall Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) visited Heritage to talk about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the “unaccountable” nominee to head the agency. At… Read More
A Tyrannical Abuse of Power: Obama Attempts to Appoint Cordray to CFPB
In a revelation that is quite shocking to anyone who knows anything about the 100-plus years of precedent on the recess appointment power or the… Read More
Consumers Need Protection from Consumer Protection Bureau
The Senate is slated to vote this week on the nomination of Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). If confirmed,… Read More
VIDEO: Senator Says Confirming Consumer Czar Would Be ‘Devastating’
Richard Cordray, President Obama’s pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, won approval from the Senate Banking Committee last week on a party-line vote. His… Read More
Warren Rebuffed, but Consumer Finance Bureau Still a Threat
President Obama will bypass Elizabeth Warren to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and instead nominate former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to the… Read More
