Vitter: Obama 'Shredded Constitution' & Gingrich: Defund NLRB

Republicans in the U.S. Senate will use at least two avenues to contest President Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, U.S. Sen. David Vitter tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview.

The first, he says, “will be some sort of legal action.” And, he adds, "clearly, clearly this is going to impact other nominations."
Vitter says all four of the president’s four recent recess appointments (three new members were also placed on the National Labor Relations Board) are “illegal and unconstitutional”.

“He’s gone beyond what any president has done and really shredded the constitution in practice with regard to recess appointments.

Vitter, who serves on the Senate Banking Committee, also made it clear that he and his fellow Republicans in the Senate will do what ever they can to halt future presidential appointments.

“It’s going to lead to more fights about nominations,” Vitter says.

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Newt Gingrich on Thursday called for Congress to defund the National Labor Relations Board in retaliation for President Barack Obama¹s decision to make three recess appointments to it.

Speaking at a rally in Plymouth, N.H., the Republican presidential candidate said cutting money from the agency would be the "correct response" to Obama's move.

"The answer to an imperial president is a Congress which stands on its own rights. And the correct response to what the president just did would be for the Congress to zero out and refuse to fund the National Labor Relations Board," Gingrich said.

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