[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23611]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        CZAR ACCOUNTABILITY ACT

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON: Mr. Speaker, article II, section 2, clause 2 of the 
United States Constitution says that the President must seek advice and 
consent from the U.S. Senate when appointing his principal officers. 
That's why it's so alarming that this President has appointed 36 czars, 
most without the consent of the U.S. Senate.
  It let people like Van Jones--an admitted Communist who came up 
through a Marxist organization called STORM in Oakland, California--and 
puts him as a principal adviser of the President of the United States 
without the Senate having any say-so.
  I've introduced the Czar Accountability Act. So far, this doesn't 
seem to bother one Democrat in the House of Representatives that the 
President seems to be sidestepping the Constitution. Maybe what should 
bother them is the fact that not one czar has come before the 
Appropriations Committee to justify and ask for his or her budget, yet 
these people make $150,000, $170,000 a year. Where is the Democrat 
Party? Does party come before constitutional duty?
  You know, the Founding Fathers moved for balance of government and 
equal division, and that's what they had in mind.

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