Obama Makes Recess Appoints to NLRB and EEOC
President Barack Obama is using his recess appointment power to install 15 stalled nominees, including labor lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board and Georgetown University law professor Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The recess appointment power, used with regularity by previous administrations, allows the nominees to serve through the end of 2011 without being confirmed by the Senate. Becker, picked for the NLRB, and Feldblum, for the EEOC, have faced especially heated opposition.
Also among the 15 nominees are Jacqueline Berrien, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, for chair of the EEOC; Seyfarth Shaw of counsel Victoria Lipnic for the EEOC; P. David Lopez, an EEOC supervisory trial attorney, for EEOC general counsel; and Buffalo, N.Y. labor lawyer Mark Pearce for the NLRB.
Here is a link to the White House press release regarding these appointments.
You can take a look at the appointees resumes after the break.
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