Help me out-do President Obama's Czars have to be vetted by Congress?

w8liftinglady

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Mon Sep-14-09 03:14 PM
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Help me out-do President Obama's Czars have to be vetted by Congress?

I'm trying to find the answer myself,but don't seem to be able to...I want to Rebut an opinion piece in my paper(links please if you have them)

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DJ13

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Mon Sep-14-09 03:15 PM
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1. No

Thats why the Republicans have their knickers knotted about czars.......unless its their party who's President uses them.

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w8liftinglady

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Mon Sep-14-09 03:17 PM
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4. I am researching Bush's "czars"...and most of them were

vetted by a Republican Congress

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Eric J in MN

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Mon Sep-14-09 03:16 PM
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2. Some do, some don't.

Edited on Mon Sep-14-09 03:20 PM by Eric J in MN

None of them have the word "czar" in their real titles.

The higher level ones have to be confirmed by the Senate.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/30/cantor-32-czars/

Ironically, (Eric) Cantor�s link to the outrageous �TARP czar� goes to the bio of Herbert Allison � who was confirmed by the Senate...

There�s also Cantor�s �technology czar� Aneesh Chopra and the �government performance czar� Jeff Zients. Both men have already been confirmed by the Senate; Chopra is the Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Zients is OMB�s Deputy Director for Management. Zients is serving in two roles � in both the OMB and as Chief Performance Officer � but he was fully vetted by the Senate.
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joeybee12

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Mon Sep-14-09 03:16 PM
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3. No, they don't...not cabinet posts or other types that require

Senate approval.

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w8liftinglady

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Mon Sep-14-09 03:22 PM
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5. never mind-I found what I needed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars

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Zen Democrat

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Mon Sep-14-09 03:23 PM
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6. "Czars" is a nickname created by the media to describe department heads ...

who for the most part report to Cabinet secretaries. The only "czar" that was officially named a Czar was Nixon's Energy Czar. Then we had the Drug Czars. Now the media calls the directors of various administration departments the "czars" -- but they aren't really autonomous.

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emulatorloo

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Mon Sep-14-09 03:31 PM
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7. kind of similar to the media use of "Guru" - Computer Guru, Marketing Guru, blah blah blah.

The Wingnuts are just too damn literal minded.

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