If you lived in one state continuously from 1960 til today,except for a few years in another state in the middle, but gave a lecture in a third state, would you reasonably claim that you are a resident of the third state? That is the case with Peter Diamond. He has lived in Massachusetts since 1960 except for a few years that he lived in Berkeley, CA while he attended UCB. Over the past few years he has given a few lectures at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The Obama Administration is claiming that he is being nominated to represent the Chicago Federal Reserve District based on those lectures. This is not a minor point or "Republican obstructionism", this is the law. He is ineligible to serve on the Federal Reserve Board, by law. Does anyone care? Probably not. Should they? I think so. At a minimum, shouldn't the law apply equally to the President?
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12581
(Is this an isolated incident? Google "Recess Appointments" to find out how, in Obama's world, he can make recess appointments when the Senate is not in recess.) Or here, Let Me Google That For You.
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