Reading Room Document

Presidential Appointments During Intrasession Recess of Senate

Constitutional Law—Article II, Section 2, Clause 3—Recess Appointments—Compensation (5 U.S.C. § 5503) The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/22091/download.

August 3, 1979