As students across California return to their classrooms, they will step back into healthier learning environments thanks to the landmark Senate Bill 291, known as Recess for All, which requires ...

Despite these benefits, recess time is under attack. The Center for Education found that schools have cut recess by 60 fewer minutes a week since 2000.. The push for academic achievement often ...

Recess appointments have been used by various presidents in the last couple of decades. And both Democrat and Republican administrations have used the tool to make appointments.

The last recess appointment was Richard Griffin Jr. to the National Labor Relations Board on Jan. 4, 2012. He was part of four recess appointments by Obama on that day. Griffin and two others were ...

By urging the incoming GOP Senate majority to embrace recess appointments to install members of his Cabinet, Republican President-elect Donald Trump is in effect asking his party to unilaterally ...

What's next for Trump's administration picks after inauguration? 08:27 President Trump is threatening to use his powers to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments for at least some of ...

With congressional Republican leadership on board and a mandate-level victory in the presidential election, recess appointments would be a perfectly valid option for President Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most powerful positions in the U.S. government. Trump over the weekend demanded ...

Here’s how it works. Recess appointments were meant to be a logistical fail-safe. Article II of the Constitution says that the president can name officials “by and with the advice and consent ...