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Always To The Right on Friday, October 23, 2009 1:06:47 PM
SOURCE: Staff reports | By Karen Yourish and Laura Stanton - The Washington Post - September 16, 2009
Bush created five new czar positions in five years. Obama created 17 new czar positions in 8 months,
only one of which needed Senate confirmation and has Congressional
oversight. These are essentially end runs around Congressional
oversight. The Obama administration denied this earlier this year, but
their response to both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill leaves
little doubt on the matter. Obama wants to create and implement
policy in secret, and doesn’t want his czars having to testify before
Congress on what they do.
Is this “transparency”? No, but it is a transparent power grab, and Congress has only belatedly noticed it.