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Published: Thu, 9 Jul 2009
Description: Lawmaker wants 'czars' to be confirmed by Senate, not appointed by president
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" Thanks Dave -- Obama administration be going -- crazy there are now reportedly 33 special envoys maybe 34. None of them have to go through a confirmation process and that has our next guest. Steam. Congressman Jack Kingston introduce legislation that would require stars to be confirmed by congress just like cabinet posts right congressman."
" Yes and and that is a constitutional duty at its article two section two constitution says that. Key advisers to the president have to be named with the consent and advised that the US senate and that's why they vote on. Not just cabinet members that sub cabinet members deputy assistant secretaries all kinds of people that never made headlines. But the US senate has -- crash data so they can get a background in sort of vet them a little bit."
" Exactly and so this is become the new thing in the Obama administration now by your numbers 34 is ours. Let's give folks some information this morning a lot of people wanna know how much money do they make by your accounts a 172000. Dollars a year is out across the board."
" Yes and now and then we don't know how many staffers they have to is -- but it if you just think in terms of 33. Bizarre it's plus ten staffers 330 people on. That had a bet -- decent salaries is that in that that's a big bureaucracy that we're we're creating. Outside of the knowledge in the realm of congress because they don't come before us for their budgets they don't come before us with the reports of what they're doing on regulations on Karzai bright lights on and everything else --"
" Could you bring up cars. And the auto task forces -- has no car experience I believe nobody on the entire auto task force. Has auto experience so that's one issue this second issue is they're doing parallel work he's ours are they not. To the cabinet."
" Positions. What we have terrorism czar as we have. Guantanamo closure czar is what we have Sudan's ours and you have to ask yourself what a secretary gates the secretary of defense custody due in. A secretary here and the secretary of the army. If you have all these are outside of their round and as you pointed out we really don't know what their background is it if you're the Guantanamo closures are. What is your expertise that's better than anything that's already existing inside the Pentagon so what is your analysis of why the Obama administration is doing that's. They're going around congress so that they can have their own flexibility and get things done and that I think it really is just basically an end around and unfortunately they're totally unchecked. Because -- Reagan Nancy Pelosi will basically rubber stamp anything the administration. Once done. The other day when you have in this debate I ask all the the chairman of the subcommittees of appropriation. How many of the of these guys in charge of spending the money Watson the budgets. I ask how many of you have ever had one of these -- in front of your committee to review his or her budget. And ask them what they're doing and how many staffers they need -- expenses are. Not one hand when that no one has seen these people in front of congress and and you know one thing we knew we we still are fairly good that on the hill its oversight and we'd we'd like to raise campaign."
" Yeah well according to historical the staffers that we have here Russia had -- 300 years. In three or four months Obama has. Gone above that representative Jack Kingston Republican from Georgia thank you for joining us this morning. Thank you have."
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