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Gavel in, Gavel Out

January 4, 2012 By Voice 2 Comments

Perhaps you’ve heard. Our CongressNerds are doing the “gavel in/gavel out” thing and holding pro forma sessions trying to prevent the POTUS from making recess appointments for positions which have been vacant for months. From Wiki: “The term pro forma is a term applied to practices or documents that are done as a pure formality, […]

Filed Under: Barack Obama, Election Politics, Issue Framing, Politics, Republicans Tagged With: appointments, cabinet, Congress, gavel, House, Obama, political terrorism, Republicans, Senate

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