Reading Room Document

The President's Authority to Make a Recess Appointment to the National Labor Relations Board

The President may make a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board of a person whose term as a Senate-confirmed member expired during the current recess of the Senate. 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/19161/download.

August 31, 2001