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There's been a lot of chatter on recess appointments.

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Is there appetite within the body, not leadership, if we get too stalled here to be able to use

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recess appointments where both the Houses of Congress would basically recess and President

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Trump could fill his cabinet for two years and 700 days?

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I do.

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I think that we gotta pedal the metal, we gotta do everything we can through the

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typical process.

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But for me, it's on the table.

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It should be.

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It'll take a great deal of coordination, which we've got the House and the Senate

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allows us to do that if we have to get there.

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And recess appointments, by the way, aren't some historical anomaly.

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They happened a lot prior to about 12 years ago.

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So I absolutely think they should be on the table.

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They need to be used if we have to get there.

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But I'm also pretty confident that that sense of urgency you and I were talking about,

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that is also for making sure these personnel decisions get the full attention early and

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for a very long time.

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If that means that we gotta be there over the weekend, whatever, that's what

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we should do.