House committee won't recognize Obama recess appointee

Washington Times:
A House committee chairman said Monday that he will not accept testimony from Richard Cordray, the chairman of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, because he was one of the recess appointments that a federal appeals court ruled were made in violation of the Constitution. 
House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling said that his committee is only allowed to hear testimony from the chairman of the bureau, and since a court has called Mr. Cordray’s appointment into question, he cannot be considered the legal chairman. 
“Absent contrary guidance from the United States Supreme Court, you do not meet the statutory requirements of a validly-serving director of the CFPB, and cannot be recognized as such,” Mr. Hensarling wrote in a letter to Mr. Cordray. 
Mr. Cordray is slated to appear Tuesday before a Senate panel. The Senate is controlled by Democrats, who argue the recess appointments are valid. 
Republicans, though, control the House and have made clear they reject the recess appointments as invalid.

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Hensarling is a Congressman from Texas and he is a good conservative.  Cordray was not a party to the case brought against the NLRB that found the appointments unconstitutional, but he was appointed at the same time.  It would not surprise me to see a challenge to all the rules formulated under the recess appointees.

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