The Saxbe fix is a mechanism by which the President of the United
States, in appointing a current or former Member of the United States
Congress whose elected term has not yet expired, seeks to avoid the
restriction of the United States Constitution's Ineligibility Clause.
That clause prohibits the president from appointing a current or former
member of Congress to a position that was created, or to a position for
which the pay and/or benefits (collectively "emoluments") were
increased, during the term for which that member was elected until the
term has expired. The rollback, implemented by an Act of Congress in
1909, reverts the emoluments of the office to the amount they were when
that member began his or her elected term. Historically, the
restriction has been met with various responses: choosing another
nominee, allowing the desired nominee's elected term of office to
expire, ignoring the clause entirely, or using a "Saxbe fix" to reduce
the offending emoluments. Although the latter mechanism was passed by
Congress in 1909, it is named for Senator William Saxbe, who was
confirmed as Attorney General in 1973 after Congress reduced the
office's salary to the level it had been before Saxbe's term commenced.
Since the late 1970s, the use of the "Saxbe fix" has been common. The
Saxbe fix has subsequently become relevant as a successful—though not
universally accepted—solution for appointments by presidents of both
parties, of sitting members of the United States Congress to the United
States Cabinet.
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxbe_fix>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1836:
Texas Revolution: Mexican forces captured the Alamo in San Antonio from
the Texans after a 13-day siege.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo>
1869:
Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first Periodic Table of Elements to the
Russian Chemical Society.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev>
1899:
The German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer registered Aspirin
as a trademark.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin>
1945:
Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front, a party closely associated with
the Communists, became Prime Minister of Romania.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petru_Groza>
1987:
In the worst maritime disaster involving a British registered ship in
peacetime since 1919, the ferry M/S Herald of Free Enterprise capsized
while leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium, killing 193 on board.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Herald_of_Free_Enterprise>
1988:
In Operation Flavius, the British Special Air Service killed
Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers Daniel McCann, Seán Savage
and Mairéad Farrell while they were conspiring to bomb a parade of
British military bands in Gibraltar.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flavius>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
vulnerary (adj):
1. Useful or used for healing wounds; healing, curative.
2. (archaic, rare) Causing wounds, wounding
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vulnerary>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You imagine that what you can't understand is either spiritual or does
not exist. The conclusion is quite wrong; rather there are obviously a
million things in the universe that we would need a million quite
different organs to understand ... someone blind from birth cannot
imagine the beauty of a landscape, the colors of a painting or the
shadings of an iris. He will imagine them as something palpable,
edible, audible or olfactory. Likewise, if I were to explain to you
what I perceive by the senses you do not have, you would interpret it
as something that could be heard, seen, touched, smelled or tasted; but
it is not like that.
--Cyrano de Bergerac
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cyrano_de_Bergerac>
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