Robert Andrews actually said...

And let us get the board functioning again by insisting that the Senate take a vote, an up/down vote on the people who were nominated.

I think if the purpose of a pro forma session is to avoid presidential appointments that is an invalid exercise of that clause.

We have not marked up one bill or advanced one bill to the floor since the new majority took over that would accomplish that goal.

We have three branches of government for a reason. And that reason is so that no one branch has too much power.