From FCW:
A House lawmaker is looking to block a July 10 executive order reclassifying administrative law judges outside of the competitive service under a new appointment authority dubbed Schedule E. ...
Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) is offering an amendment to an appropriations bill to prohibit the use of Office of Personnel Management funds in implementing the order. ...
Hilarie Bass, president of the American Bar Association, is opposing the order and supporting Scott's amendment.
"By giving agency heads sole discretion to hire ALJs who will be making determinations affirming or overturning decisions rendered by that agency, the EO has the potential to politicize the appointment process and interfere with the decisional independence of ALJs," Bass wrote in a July 16 letter to the leaders of the House Rules Committee, urging the adoption of Scott's amendment. ...
3 comments:
with a republican controlled congress?--yehhh good luck with that
I think everything this administration does going forward should receive heightened scrutiny based on Trump's performance with Putin. We literally don't know what team he's on or who is behind his policy decisions' He appears to want to undermine every existing American and Western institution.
@ 9:41PM Did you mean shouldn't or should? One can never be sure these days. LOL.
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