How many of Clinton's recess appointees

[ProSense]

were already rejected by a Senate committee and withdrawn from process?

Why the Fox appointment may be illegal.

[MiniMe]

1. Actually, Fox wasn't rejected......yet

Chimpy pulled the nomination when it became apparent that he wouldn't be confirmed

[Beaverhausen]

2. How many recess appointments did Clinton even have?

anyone know?

[Nutmegger]

3. He made over 140 recess appointments.

President Clinton: 140 recess appointments over two terms. Among them:


Former Sen. Wyche Fowler, D-Ga., ambassador to Saudi Arabia, August 1996. Put in the post two months after a bombing that killed 19 American soldiers stationed there, he received Senate confirmation in October 1997 and served until March 2001.


Mickey Kantor, commerce secretary, April 1996. He replaced Ron Brown, who died in a plane crash, but left in January 1997 before his nomination went before the Senate.


Roger Gregory, 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, December 2000. He was later re-nominated by Bush and confirmed by the Senate.


Bill Lann Lee, assistant attorney general for civil rights, August 2000. Blocked by Senate Republicans, he was appointed acting assistant attorney general in 1997, then received the recess appointment to serve out Clinton's term.


James Hormel, ambassador to Luxembourg, June 1999. A gay philanthropist whose nomination was blocked by Senate Republicans, he remained ambassador until near the end of Clinton's term.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-recess-appointments-glance,1,3699037.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines