Fellow RNC Members--
Please see the latest draft of the "Resolution to Reform the Obama Administration's Policy of Appointing Czars."
I plan to submit the resolution today To Henry Barbour. I encourage your comment .
I would appreciate your supportfor this resolution. The resolution has five co sponsors/supporters so far and I desire to add your name to the strength of support as we approach the Summer Meetings.
Please feel free to answer here. I look forward to working together on this resolution with you.
Thank you.
Bruce Ash
National Committeeman--Arizona
WHEREAS, in an unprecedented major consolidation of White House power and usurpation of Congressional authority Barack Obama has appointed 16 “Czars” and additional appointments appear to be forthcoming;
WHEREAS, none of these co called “Czars” were appointed with congressional approval yet each manage important areas of national policy, impacting millions of American citizens and controlling a significant portion of the budget of the federal government; and
WHEREAS, despite the President’s campaign pledge of governmental transparency, the appointment of the “Czars” shows the Obama administration is circumventing congressional oversight and accountability because each of these officials is accountable only to the President; and
WHEREAS the U.S. Constitution explicitly states governmental officers with significant authority (called “principal officers”) must be nominated by the President and are subject to a vote of the U.S. Senate; and
WHEREAS, these principal officers include not only cabinet level secretaries but include assistant secretaries and deputy undersecretaries; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. Constitution instructs that only the U.S. Congress can approve such appointments as well as create other inferior officers; and
WHEREAS, the principal officers and inferior officers are subject to subpoena with the U.S. Congress holding the purse strings of annual appropriations; and
WHEREAS, by contrast, White House officials are an alter ego of the President, an agent of the Executive Office of the President being completely removed from the U.S. Congress and immune from subpoena; and
WHEREAS, these “Czars” advise the President and conduct national policy despite the separation of powers which forbids congressional interference in that relationship; and
WHEREAS, the Founding Fathers framed the powers vested in the President to specifically block that type of centralized authority that Barack Obama is currently exerting; and
WHEREAS, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a senior member of the Democratic Party and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, has sent an official protest to Barack Obama that his effort to appoint “Czars” is an attempt to subvert the authority of the U.S. Congress and a violation of the U.S. Constitution; therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee recognize that the current concentration of powers in the Executive Branch is a violation of the powers of the President of the United States as defined in the U.S. Constitution and is dangerous to the citizens of America; and be further
RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee calls upon the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Congress to halt funding the operations of the federal government vested in these “Czars” until Barack Obama returns the lawful authority to his cabinet secretaries and lesser officers of the national government; and be further
RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee calls upon the U.S. Congress to hold Barack Obama accountable for violations to the U.S. Constitution; and be further
RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee calls upon the U.S. Congress to initiate impeachment hearings against Barack Obama should he continue to violate the separation of powers.
WHEREAS, none of these co called “Czars” were appointed with congressional approval yet each manage important areas of national policy, impacting millions of American citizens and controlling a significant portion of the budget of the federal government; and
WHEREAS, despite the President’s campaign pledge of governmental transparency, the appointment of the “Czars” shows the Obama administration is circumventing congressional oversight and accountability because each of these officials is accountable only to the President; and
WHEREAS the U.S. Constitution explicitly states governmental officers with significant authority (called “principal officers”) must be nominated by the President and are subject to a vote of the U.S. Senate; and
WHEREAS, these principal officers include not only cabinet level secretaries but include assistant secretaries and deputy undersecretaries; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. Constitution instructs that only the U.S. Congress can approve such appointments as well as create other inferior officers; and
WHEREAS, the principal officers and inferior officers are subject to subpoena with the U.S. Congress holding the purse strings of annual appropriations; and
WHEREAS, by contrast, White House officials are an alter ego of the President, an agent of the Executive Office of the President being completely removed from the U.S. Congress and immune from subpoena; and
WHEREAS, these “Czars” advise the President and conduct national policy despite the separation of powers which forbids congressional interference in that relationship; and
WHEREAS, the Founding Fathers framed the powers vested in the President to specifically block that type of centralized authority that Barack Obama is currently exerting; and
WHEREAS, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a senior member of the Democratic Party and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, has sent an official protest to Barack Obama that his effort to appoint “Czars” is an attempt to subvert the authority of the U.S. Congress and a violation of the U.S. Constitution; therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee recognize that the current concentration of powers in the Executive Branch is a violation of the powers of the President of the United States as defined in the U.S. Constitution and is dangerous to the citizens of America; and be further
RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee calls upon the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Congress to halt funding the operations of the federal government vested in these “Czars” until Barack Obama returns the lawful authority to his cabinet secretaries and lesser officers of the national government; and be further
RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee calls upon the U.S. Congress to hold Barack Obama accountable for violations to the U.S. Constitution; and be further
RESOLVED, that the Republican National Committee calls upon the U.S. Congress to initiate impeachment hearings against Barack Obama should he continue to violate the separation of powers.
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