Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140626:17:02:00
Party is in the white house, when they leave town for christmas or the sumsummer, theo these pro forma sessions. they go in for three days, gavel into business and then gavel out of business so they say we were never recess so the president can't use the recess authority. today the supreme court blessed that practice. they say a recess has to be at least ten days before the president can use this power and the senate has been doing this every three. so it was a practsical matter. what it means is when the president and the senate are in opposite parties, you aren't going to be able to do reces...