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President Obama is expected to bypass the Senate and install Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Board today. Recess appointments are common and provided for by the Constitution, but it is the first time in two decades one has been made during a Senate break of less than three days. Senate Republicans are not happy.

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W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.

http://spectator.org/blog/2012/01/04/richard-cordray-gets-his-reces

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