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Thom's blog
This is why we needed REAL filibuster reform!
The Obama administration is considering its next move, after a panel of three Republican-appointed judges on a DC Circuit Court ruled last week, that President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were unconstitutional. The court ruled that the president can only make a recess appointment when the Senate is officially in recess – which only happens once a year – after the Senate finishes the first half of its session.
That decision directly contradicted a 2004 federal appeals court ruling – and 190 years of recess appointments by both Republican, and Democratic, presidents. But Corporate America is applauding the decision – and arguing that decisions made by the National Labor Relations Board, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, since the recess appointments, should be null and void.
According to court rules, the Obama Justice Department still has 45 days to appeal the ruling to a larger court of appeals – plus another 90 days to appeal to the Supreme Court. Of course – none of this would have been an issue had Senate Republicans not filibustered the President’s nominees – forcing him to make recess appointments in the first place.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 9pm... Healthcare...or corporate care? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
In for Thom tonight, please welcome Sam Sacks, Progressive Writer & Commentator
The Best of the Rest...
Daily Take: Second Amendment Was Passed to Protect Slavery
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Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Grand Theft...Election?- Ian Millhiser, Center for American Progress 
Hour Two: AZ bill would hold diplomas hostage over loyalty
Quote:
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
by Emma Lazarus.
Hour Three: AZ bill would hold diplomas hostage over loyalty
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Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour Two: Immigration reform...President unveils his plan- Jeff Biggers, Journalist & Author- State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream
Immigration, guns and Congress...oh my!- Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, U.S. Congresswoman (D-AZ, 9th district)
Hour Three: Dr. Mike takes your calls...
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
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Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Would you believe that the government wants your guns and then your life savings?! Some conservatives would...I'll challenge Lowell Ponte, "The Inflation Deception"
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Thom's Poll
Should new gun laws limit handguns as well as assault weapons?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 1/28/13: Another American Victim in the War on Terror
Guest host Sam Sacks fills in for Thom Hartmann and discusses the weekends pro-life/anti-gun march in Washington and whether Senator Feinstein's assault weapons bill will pass. Also discussed: an American woman's story of how our country's war on terror is out of control and undemocratic, the NYPD's plan to scan us and a debate on the importance of public libraries. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom continues his "No Billionaires" campaign.
Thom Hartmann on the News: January 28, 2013
Jim Javinsky fills in for Thom Hartmann commenting on the news.
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 Would you like to help give a child with a very troubled background this feeling of peace? Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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