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Good job Rep. Kingston!

Let's try and rein in the spending of someone who has tasked his administration to find savings of $100M.

I'm in agreement with the Republicans on this one...what's up with the "czars" ?

THIS ISN'T RUSSIAN YOU KNOW?!

Hahahahaha! Deese Republithugs done loss their mind!!!

If George W. Bush had created such an establishment of Czars surrounding him without Senate approval, would not the Democrats have filed a similar legislation?

I thought we were going to have change we could believe in, and change that would be bipartisan--and certainly change .... with Senate, House, and even The People's approval.

What's going on?

Funny. Karl Rove wasn't confirmed by the Senate, and he directed policy in all sorts of departments of government. Huh.

Wait... so the acronym of this bill is CZAR? Even though the CZ from it is short for Czar? Can be we introduce a bill that will ban politicians from using ridiculous acronym. It shall be called ACRONYM short for the ACRimonious Omission of Naming Your bills Mandate.

Was this idiot asking all these question and introducing this legislation when the previous administration was in office? Is that why our country is so screwed up now?

I'm sure Obama would be open to a vetting process – not like Rethuglican's can filibuster an appointment anyway.

Where were these Republican's when Bush and his cronies were acting "above the law".

Another sign of Republican hypocracy.

It's about time !
It has been said said he first apointed them, that
these Czars are not operating within the bounds of the Constitution.

And with as many problems as his actual appointments had, can you imagine what lies under the covers of those hired under the cover of darkness.

Good luck on getting it to the floor Jack!

Kinston is another GOP douche bag. Keep it coming GOP you wont win a national election for a 100 years.

Really? Can someone please explain to me how exactly the republican party contributes to improving the country.

All politics aside. Czars- Are they constitutional or not? They do not have to go through any hearings and yet we give them alot of power.
As an American I do not like the idea. Anyone else care to weigh in?

Yup. Obama's 'Hope and Change' really meant "I HOPE you won't mind while I CHANGE how our constitution was designed to work."

Yes, previous president's have had czar's you could count on one hand with several fingers leftover. Obama's czar count staggers the imagination and ignores basic tenet of our country.

How quickly the Republicans forget. Bush appointed several czars, and tried to appoint a couple of others, specific to his wars, but there were no takers. And I would venture to say that Rove was the Czar of dirty tricks and deceit. Sorry, Repubs, you started it. Now grow up, and do something meaningful, or we Americans, the people you work for, will lay you off, so you get a taste of the economy you created.

Yeah, I suppose we shouldn't pay anyone to actually do something.

Republican's in general will pull the plug on anything and everything the Obama administration does in hopes that his administration fails, no matter what the cost...they would turn the U.S. into a third world country if it meant getting their precious power back...that's all they care about.

All the czars, all at the taxpayers expense.
obama thinks he's king and doesn't have to answer to anyone, that when he says jump, everyone should just jump without question.
Most dimocrats do but thankfully others, and even now some democrats, are wising up and starting to ask questions.

It's about time!!!!!

One and done obama. Can't wait! Let's just hope there's enough pieces to pick up.

So Mr Kingston doesn't think tackling the problems of energy/climate change, health care reform and enforcement of federal drug laws is important? Well then, we should just stop worrying about climate change and keeping sending billions to our enemies and destroy our economy and our planet. Sounds brilliant! And let's not worry about drugs so kids can start taking them and failing out of a school system that doesn't work properly. That way our society will be uneducated and on drugs. Mr Kingston should be president, he's brillian. NOT.

It's about time. obama tells CEos that they have to buckle down and watch cost, but that does not apply to him. he can hire anyone with no accountability and you and I are paying for it. He is a COMPLETE joke.

Liberals will have a very hard time admitting they made a mistake and I understand that. It's a pride thing. But eventually, the wall will fall and liberals will say...we screwed up and we need a new Democrat candidate for President in 2012.

If President Obama had a gun czar the rethuglicans would support that, it's just stuff that's going to help the average citizen that they don't want to support.

win the house in 2010, then shut this guy and his shadow government down!

Obama has become America’s FIRST DICTATOR!

November 4, 2008 is a day that will go down in infamy as the day the American people, unbeknownst to them, elected the FIRST MARXIST SOCIALIST government in the history of the United States
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It is time for the people of America to STAND UP for our freedom and liberty, and demand that Obama be impeached and removed from office!

There they go. White man maintaining his control by putting reins on the uppity negro. do they really think thery aren't 'transparent', too. We see you coming a mile away and you speak of Sotomayor and the possiblity of bias in her decisions when we all know white men have been bias in the laws written. You never say it, you enact it.

For the 10,000,000,000,000th time, why was it ok when Bush did it?

Here's an idea, let's reduce the salary of both the house and senate members, seriously. Under the formula established in the Ethics Reform Act, Members may receive a pay adjustment in January 2009 of 2.8%. that would increase salaries for Members of Congress to $174,000. While their constituants are losing the jobs, homes and life savings, house and senate members receive a raise, so call your senators and representatives and tell them, until the rest of America is back to work, they shouldn't receive a raise.

Czars are UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

Em, parallel Government, where have I seen this before. Huge conflict in Europe for 500 Alex. It's pronounced gestapo in German.

Republican presidents have also had 'czars' (including president Bush's domestic policy czar, Carl Rove). I never heard Mr. Kingston complaining about the cost of any of the republican czars.

With all these Szars seems we are in another country.
While OB flys around the country hyping his Hope & Change crap
I hope ay Change occurs in 2010 & 12 firt al incumbant libs in th ehouse & senate then the big guy himself out of office .
what a worthless term this is of any president any time even Jimmy Carter didn't do this much damage in 4 years!
Wake up People1

"Why won't the President use transparency and have these people come before the Senate and undergo the constitutionally-mandated process?," Kingston asked in a release announcing his amendment to an appropriations bill.
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Kinda like Cheney taking the role of President without nomination or voting for him to take that position?

With each new revalation of the actions of the Republican party, I am reminded why this senior citizen is now an Independent.

I say get rid of the name Czar AND get rid of the KKK-worshipping southern senators.

There's BIGGER things to worry about GOP Senator...

You think with all the czars he could find one that could actually help with the economy. I guess they all just work on his inspirational speeches flowered with sentiment and eloquence that require no real acts of leadership. He has defined his social vision that requies run away deficits and paying off unions but none that are abating plunging unemployment that is now 9.5%. Change the liberals love.....

Hum.....just recently democrats AND the media were talking about
Bush thinking he didin't need to check with anyone concerning his
decisions.
I guess it just matters what party is in power that determines
if someone is a dictator or a good president.
But you have to admit Obama promised change and he
delivered. The names of the presidents did indeed change.

GOP better leave our President Obama alone. He's our hopeful. We need help to success our america into a good shape. That is all matter.

It is about time.

republicans you just keep digging your grave a little deeper with each passing day.........everytime you open your mouths it's about putting this Presdent down and everything he is trying to do.......if we ever turned on the tv or read anything other than your constant complaining and negativity about this administration it would shock the pants off of this country......

Czars do not make law. Bush had czars, too - GOP had no issue with them, so what's the issue now? OH, totally partisan beefs.

We have figured out that Obama intends to change the US Constitution to suit his own ambitions. To heck with the way it is now written - passe, not 21st Century lawyer-speak.

Obama has clearly SHREDED the Constituion time after time after time!

I love living in the State of Georgia, but I am continually amazed at how many incompetent and embarrassing individuals we send to Congress from this State. We are in the midst of an economic crisis and these guys sit in Washington and play petty political games.

Nothing surprises me anymore about the republicans voting against everything President Obama does. Even the confirmation of Judge Sotomayor they would vote against her being confirmed but they are not going to because that will ruin their chance with the latino votes in 2010 and 2012 you tell me its not about politics.

Incredible. Was Rep. Kingston upset when George Bush appointed Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium, Susan Dudley to be head of the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and Andrew Biggs to be deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration – all while Congress was in recess and therefore without their approval?

Senate and undergo the constitutionally-mandated process?,"

YEA, We seen it this week with Sonia SotoMayor constitutionally-mandated proces with was nothing but a waste of time and a way to stall all of the President appointee. Republicans you are the problem and we American voted against your party of OBSTRUCTED!

MOVE AT THE WAY!

Where you gonna Take Them when you can't even find them????

No seriously?? This is how government operates in the US? Lord help you. So everyone to be hired by a President must be "vetted" by the Senate? That's an efficient use of some high priced help, especially when you factor in the politics of it – no one cares if the person is qualified for the job, only that they be as obstructionist as possible. Look at the Supreme Court – does the nominee meet a standard of judicial experience?? That should be the only thing necessary. Can you imagine if every position required this? It would be INSANE!

In addition to the 32 Czar's Obama has named, many of his communist type policies also are very similar to those of Russia.

"Why won't the President use transparency and have these people come before the Senate and undergo the constitutionally-mandated process?," Kingston asked in a release announcing his amendment to an appropriations bill.

What is wrong with the Repulicans party they just want to hold up any process coming for this White House. We don't have time for the Republicans to continue to box progress with their waste for hearing like with Sonia SotoMayor.

This is why this country is in the mess we are in becasue the Republicans REFUSE TO WORK WITH THIS PRSIDENT AND CONTINUE TO BE OBSTRUCTED.

PLEASE MOVE OUT THE WAY!

Yea lets listen to the Republicans. They are the ones the got us in this mess!!!!!!

What good has the Republican party done for our country in the past 8-1/2 years?

Nothing.

These Republicans unfortunately exasperate GOP hypocrisy again. Where were these criticisms when President Bush was appointing czars?

Yay! This is why I'm a republican...because I want to be an obstructionist and pursue wasteful legislation that stall progress and offers no solutions, and best of all, stops all others from pursuing those solutions as well.

As a republican, it is our duty to ensure that this country goes NOWHERE but down the drain. And that's why we pursue these senseless acts, spending our time on STOPPING things rather then FIXXING things.

Proud Republicans, we are the party of "STOP the PROGRESS in CONGRESS...it goes against the "CON" vs "PRO" prefix definitions!"

All you libtard monkeys can thank us for making sure we go nowhere like we are supposed to!

It's obvious, isn't it?

Bravo! Good luck getting it through committee and then through the House. Glad to see Byrd had a lucid moment, I was worried about him.

In Obama's dictionary, transparent means something you can't see, not something you can see through.

"LOOK OUT EVERYONE"! The sky is falling! The sky is falling! A Republican said so. Run for your lives! What a joke!

The Obama regime has found something that they are good at,
delegating. Creating over 20 'czars', is not the best way to reduce big
government (one more broken promise). I would happily pay my
hard earned taxes to provide Obama with a CZAR OF REGIME
REASSIGMENT TO SIBERIA. Socialism would be better received there.
But this is America, we will share and share alike, but like my son used to say...'You can't make me'. Let Freedom Ring!!

Obama has 36 CZARS now, when is he gonna declare his self TSAR of USA?

"It seems President Obama is in the midst of forming a parallel government to push his policies," Kingston also said Wednesday
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That is a VERY strong acusation and a dangerous one. It is one thing to disagree and challenge the issue on the validity according to the Constitution. But to go as far as to say the president is trying to form his own government? This is extreme and show nothing else other than this man trying to be an utter obstructionist.

Finally someone is looking into it. Before all of the Obama supporters whine, think what you would have said if Bush had a handful of Czars that were not nominated through the normal channels.

As a lifelong Democrat, I am sick of the Chicago Thug way of doing things that Obama is bringing to this country! Every Dem I know regrets our vote and will never support him or anyone that supports his takeover policies again!
He is trying to cram all his policies down our throats now because he knows he will never get re-elected!

typical Republican attempts at obstructionism. Obama is trying to fix the economy and manage two wars and everything else that the Republicans screwed up. He should be able to run the government without GOP approval for everything.

Read some history – Obama's Czars are nothing but a power grab. Centralized control of the economy is Obama's goal. Call it socialism, communism, facism – whatever you like. But Obama wants complete economic, social, political and cultural control.

Transparency is now seen as a lie. That went the way of 5 days of public comment on bills.

Those were things to get elected. You didn't really think he would DO it.

From PolitiFact – specific broken promises so far:
No. 24: End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000
No. 234: Allow five days of public comment before signing bills
No. 240: Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials
No. 505: Create a $3,000 tax credit for companies that add jobs
No. 508: Allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009
No. 511: Recognize the Armenian genocide
No. 517: Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN

In all fairness, presidents in both parties had czars. The problem is the over abundance OF czars in this administration. Czars bypass Congressional oversight! That is the issue! Not a dem or repub issue but a Congressional one!

The Administration is probably taking the "czar" route with so many people because they're tax cheats and couldn't withstand any type of scrutiny.

Way to go..........now why didn't one of my SC representatives initiate this legislation?

I am tired of all the "czars" in a time when our spending is out of control.

So Congressman Kingston, where was your outrage when the Bush Administration hired advisors with new titles without oversight? Where was your outrage when a parallel government, which is becoming more exposed by the day, was in operation under Bush and Cheney?

You embarrass yourself, sir. Unfortunately, you are my congressman.

Gee, Being that Obama is the master of constitutional law this is kinda of like setting up a web of phony baloney corporations to do your dirty little deeds for you. Hmmmmm, Acorn ring a bell? Side step, side step, side step the House and Senate.....

Under Obama – "Czar = intimidation thug."

If someone doesn't agree with his radical agenda, then he can use these hand selected henchmen, who buy the way, are costing taxpayers over $15mil yearly in salary, and costs.....to bad mouth both dems and repubs that won't buy into his country crushing agenda....both sides of the aisle should have concern over this;

Well Obama did promised to reduce the unemployment rolls and he's doing this by setting up his friends as governmental czars, there's now what some 40 plus czars on the taxpayers dime?

Perhaps "czar" and "shadow government" are the wrong terminology. Obama made several campaign promises which he is now pushing to implement. If he does not have administrators who must analyze the various processes, policies and practices that require certain steps the government must take, implementation will be ineffective and the American people will not be served.

The press has an obligation to scrutinize how the various programs that are currently works in process become operational. To accomplish the government's work and serve the voters, there needs to be subject matter experts in the planning and implementarion of these new programs and policies.

The country howled, and appropriately so, when Halliburton became the only Iraqi War contractor without the Bush Administration releasing Requess for Quotation from at least three potential contractors.

WHY WOULD WE WANT ANOTHER DOG AND PONY SHOW BY THE REPUBLICANS? the sotomoyor case is a joke, all the republicans are doing is flexing muscle and speaking down to this judge as if they have a superiorty about themselves. we don't need more dragging and delays from these jerks or we will never get anything done in washington. president obama is just that...the president and it is HIS decision as to have czars or not. bush never asked for the dems to approve his choices now did he?

Who cares what Kingston thinks? Bush had plenty of these czars during his administration. Somehow, I doubt if Kingston had a problem with this concept back then...

They are clearly officers of the executive branch and under the constitution and the supreme courts rulings they must be confirmed by the senate, congress has not vested the power to appoint them to the president so unless they do, they must be confirmed as heads of new departments created by the executive branch. Clear as day, not that it would take them long to do so with 60 votes, so just do it, it would be hard to justify not doing so in violation of the Constitution while at the same time criticizing the prior administration for failing to abide by the procedural requirements of the a Statute. Though it would be interesting to force these individuals to pony up their roles in the collapse of AIG and the like which were driven into the ground by many of these new CZARs.

Jack Kingston is desperate as are the Republicans in general! Is this the best he can do with the time afforded him to introduce and pass legislation that affects our nation? My gosh, there are so many more relevant and pressing issues out there. This reflects desperation and fear.

Our country was left in shambles by the previous administration. Whatever President Obama does is met with barrier after barrier by the republicans. After their absolute and utter failure in serving the people of the United States, they need to stop it and let him and his administration fix the mess he was left.

mmmmm....like cheney and all his private appointees, meetings and orders and he wasn't even president.

About time someone moves to nip this in the bud............

The biggest problem is that the socialism czar resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

I'm sure many Democrats will come on here and speak of important issues such as the accent of the Republican representative or whether he had an affair. But please do us a favor and discuss the issue. I work for the Fed and we are employing many additional people at a very high salary outside of the mainstream gov't. Just for a moment consider if this is a good thing or not before you start the Republican bashing.

Good for you Congressman Kingston!

As Byrd noted, these czar's are not accountable to anyone but the President. What happens later, if there is some sort of scandal and the czar's are called upon to testify. Does Congress hold any authority to call the czar's to testify? If Congress currently does not have this authority over these positions, then I think the czar's should go through a confirmation process.

As the Constitution states, Congress can pass legislation that the President can appoint minor positions (not sure of a czar would qualify as a minor position), so this may be a moot point. But, I think it is worth a discussion.

WAIT WAIT WAIT!!!
Are you telling me that the republicans are compaining about a decision, or an action, or any move that President Obama makes?!?!? *GASP! i'M SHOCKED! Shocked I tell you.
Now, really, at this point, is there anything that Obama does that does not draw criticism from the other side?
These repuglicans complain about Obama reading from a teleprompter...of course they are going to complain about everything else. It's all they can do

I read that crappy legislation and it's just a way for the Party Of No to continue to be the Party Of Obstruction, the Party of Hypocrites, the Party of No Ideas, the Party of .......you get the point!

What's a constitution? There is one? What stupid rRepublican trick is this trying to use this against the administration. This is America! He is President. He can do whatever he wants. Oh thats a dictatorship, oops!

A couple of these czars are convicted criminals and how many of them are tax cheats? Nothing like transparency by obamby. CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN....

Where were these people during the last 8 years when Bush/Cheney ran amok changing the way govt was run and making their own rules.

100% Accountability....They are a waste of tax money, but then again so is Obama.

The czars are a total waste of tax payers money, especially in these tough economic times. This includes the few czars Bush had. We have a President and his cabinet along with Congress that is enough.
It is time to get rid of the czars!

Throw any and everything out there and see if it stick. Darn repubs stop making yourselves look even weaker.

the repubs are like a herd of blind elephants driving down a steep hill not wondering will they crash and burn but when.

That's funny. Past presidents dem and repub alike have appointed czars for all types of issues. It's never been a problem until now. Hmmm... I'm sure if the republicans look a little harder they can come up with more things to stall, block and delay. It's like they're not trying hard enough: the entire country hasn't come to a grinding halt. Have a nice day!

oooooooh – 18 people. Scarey

Or perhaps more importantly, why isn't the Congressman addressing the concerns of the country rather than on a critique of the President?
And why isn't the senate approving the people who are nominated, and not even voting?

Let's talk about health care Congressman. How long will the GOP stand in the way of the US joining the first world in caring for the citizenry? Since they can do it, and you say we can't, does that make them better than us in your view? Let's get it done.

Good God I was thinking I was the only one who was concerned with all these Czars.....

We have zero need for these offices under any administration

The Czar positions are unconstitutional and do not have adequate congressial oversight. Those executive positions/power should be done by the cabinet members. What is this Russia? Obama is expanding the role of government too much. We need to impeach Obama before he bankrupts and socializes our country!!! Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Micheal Bloomberg all would have been better choices for president.

Obama is a poor excuse for a president and as an American I am embarrassed...........

If things were reversed and there was a Republican in the White House rather than the obamanation, then the Dems would love this idea and would be screaming from the rooftops for it to happen. Instead, I'm just waiting for the Dems to start screaming about what a bad idea it is.

The republicans didn't mind spending trillions on an illegal war or on rebuilding Iraq but darnnit they draw the line on anything that will help this country.

Oh my. What will they pick on next?
Will they ever get down to the business of trying to present workable, acceptable, intelligent suggestions to help our country and us?
The party of no is completely loosing it.

32 czars, that's unbelievable. How much taxpayer's money for those czars? What do they do? What's the accountability for them?

seems like a good idea....................as I remember, there is something about "checks and balances"????