{"id":4936,"date":"2010-12-30T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/12\/30\/obama-makes-six-recess-appointments-bu\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:47","slug":"obama-makes-six-recess-appointments-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4936","title":{"rendered":"Obama Makes Six Recess Appointments But Not Traver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18417,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/the-press-office\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/29\\\/president-obama-announces-recess-appointments-key-administration-posts&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/the-press-office\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/29\\\/president-obama-announces-recess-appointments-key-administration-posts&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18418,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/volokh.com\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/29\\\/president-to-recess-appoint-james-cole-as-deputy-ag-and-five-others&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260216235824\\\/https:\\\/\\\/volokh.com\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/29\\\/president-to-recess-appoint-james-cole-as-deputy-ag-and-five-others\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 22:00:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 19:22:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 19:54:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 19:54:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2010\/12\/29\/president-obama-announces-recess-appointments-key-administration-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House announced six recess appointments.<\/a> Four were ambassadors, one was to the position of Public Printer (head of the Government Printing Office), and one as Deputy Attorney General. <\/p>\n<p>From my perspective this is important not for who was appointed but who wasn&#8217;t &#8211; Andrew Traver to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Of course, Obama still could make Traver a recess appointment as the new Congress doesn&#8217;t begin until January 5th. My guess is that if no more appointments are made by Friday, then these six are it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2010\/12\/29\/president-to-recess-appoint-james-cole-as-deputy-ag-and-five-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Elwood at the Volokh Conspiracy<\/a> goes into detail on the mechanics of these appointments and recess appointments in general.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the White House announced six recess appointments. Four were ambassadors, one was to the position of Public Printer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2906,4501],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-traver","tag-recess-appointments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6085,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions\/6085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}