SIDE-STEP THE CONGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION, NO PROBLEM FOR LIPINSKI

On Thursday June 26, 2014, Supreme Court of the United States struck down three of President Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board as UNCONSTITUTIONAL.  Politico reported:

"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and 44 other Senate Republicans filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the justices to declare Obama’s appointments unconstitutional. Senate Democrats took no official position in the case. 'Today, the Supreme Court emphatically rejected President Obama’s brazen efforts to circumvent the Constitution, bypass the people’s elected representatives, and govern above the law,' Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said in a statement Thursday. 'The Court has reaffirmed the Senate’s vital advice-and-consent role as a check on executive abuses.'"

 The Heritage Foundation reported, on the issue of presidential power, as it relates to appointments, as far back as 2011, stating the following:

"The Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution provides that the President: … shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. The Appointments Clause is “among the significant structural safeguards of the constitutional scheme” and “is a bulwark against one branch aggrandizing its power at the expense of another branch.”"

 LIPINSKI SILENT ON THE MATTER

 Locally, Democrat Representatives, like Dan Lipinski (D-IL Dist.3), have been silent on the matter of the presidential "side-stepping" of Congress.  Why Lipinski? Because he's putting his partisan feelings and his party pride before the Constitution and the American people. 

 In August 10th 2012, Dan Lipinski voted to erode the Constitution by voting YES for S.679 (see image ablove), The Presidential Nominations Act (a bill written by Chuck Schumer D-NY), which creates an official side-step around Congress and gave the President more power in appointing nominee's to federal offices.  Every single Democrat, except for 1 "no-vote" and 24 "non-votes" voted for this bill - as compared to 115 Republican "no-votes" and 30 "non-votes" - i.e. it was a heavily Democrat supported bill designed to benefit President Obama.  The first time in the history of this country that the Congress was willingly side-stepped, with the aide of Representatives, like Dan Lipinski.  S.679 was designed to vest in the President alone the appointments to several hundred inferior offices in executive agencies that now require Senate consent.  But as you can see it emboldened the President to grab additional power and appoint higher offices without Congressional consent (and against the Constitution).

 In addition, on June 27th, the President tweeted his open willingness to continue to side-step the Congress on all matters he deems necessary to step-around. View copy of official tweet below:

 Dan Lipinski, has willingly voted to side-step Constitutionally granted Congressional power and says nothing about Obama's previous power-grabs, nor his future plans at taking Constitutional power away from Congress.  Lipinski remains silent on the Obama's violation of the Constitution.  The reality is that it doesn't matter which party holds the presidential seat... to do a "run-around" the Congress is something that we all should be concerned with - no matter your party affiliation!  I do not support any bill or measure that is designed to erode the Constitution.  The fact that Lipinski is in favor of seeding more power to the President, effectively turning the office into a Monarchy.  He's now become definitely “detached” from his constituents and has held his office far too long.