There was much hubbub in late 2012 when President Obama made four recess appointments during a short recess between two pro-forma sessions of the Senate in January of that year. The case later went to ...

Legal opinions abound about whether President Obama is on solid constitutional ground in making recess appointments while Congress is on what's called an intrasession recess. Right now, senators are ...

As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his Cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip ...

Well, Congress' month-long recess is coming to a close, and lawmakers will soon return to D.C. after spending some time back home with constituents. And in this final stretch of summer recess, NPR's ...

If you want to get really technical, then during this August recess the Senate will never actually be formally “in recess.” The practice dates back to George W. Bush’s presidency, when Democrat Harry ...

Recent U.S. education reform has focused on defining and raising the subject-matter standards students are expected to meet. In order to get their students up to snuff, schools are extending the ...