main problem is that the minority party can still slow roll the process by asking lots of questions and generally dragging the confirmation process out. that keeps the appointment out of office. a recess appointment doesn't mean they can't do that, but it does mean that while they do it the person is already in office, so dragging things out doesn't have any benefit to the minority party. it'd be interesting to see just because it would be so different from the normal confirmation process in that nobody would ask any questions and they'd just go straight to the vote. it's all retarded because with an r president and r senate you are going to have these appointments no matter what, the questioning is pure pointless obstructionism. i would love to amend the constitution such that the appointments always go into effect immediately and it's on the senate to veto them if they want to veto them so they can't just petulantly slow walk the confirmations.
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