![]() Helping Struggling Federal Student Loan Borrowers Manage Their Debt.Enhancing Workplace Flexibilities and Work-Life Programs.Modernizing Federal Leave Policies for Childbirth, Adoption, and Foster Care To Recruit and Retain Talent and Improve Productivity.Expanding Federal Support for Predevelopment Activities for Nonfederal Domestic Infrastructure Assets.Promoting Economic Competitiveness While Safeguarding Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties in Domestic Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. ![]() Establishment of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center.Student Aid Bill of Rights to Help Assure Affordable Loan Repayment.Here are some examples that appeared in the Federal Register: While often aimed at federal government contractors, they affect private sector planning, and they don’t disappear unless a future president revokes them. Note that memoranda are not laws passed by Congress nor are they formal regulations they are not even executive orders they are memos that “hereby direct” the federal hierarchy to expand state power. Not all memoranda are likely to have regulatory impact, but Obama’s proclamations have sought such things as a new financial investment instrument and to implement rights regarding work hours and employment preferences. (Figures updated at Sources: Author search on Advanced Search function Presidential Documents White House Press Office.) Not all memoranda get published in the Federal Register additional ones appear on the Obama White House press office page. The nearby chart shows both tallies. Bush published 131 memos that were published in the Federal Register over his entire presidency, while President Obama issued 219 during his first seven years, with another year to go. ![]() Obama’s pace for memoranda tops that of the George Bush years. Some of what transpires today appears without precedent, as even the Washington Post characterized Obama’s unilateral executive action on immigration as one that “ flies in the face of congressional intent.” A future example could be a "Meataxe" taken to Obama's unilateral pen and phone executive actions in the event some non-establishment/non-RINO Republican were to assume power. 12291 on cost-benefit analysis that slashed the numbers of rules and Federal Register pages. Examples of the latter include Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and Reagan’s E.O. Actions can expand governmental power, or they can liberalize and enhance freedom. The pertinent question is what executive orders and memoranda are used for and what they do. USA Today called presidential memoranda “ Executive orders by another name” that are “not numbered” and “not indexed,” Memoranda may or may not be published, depending on a president's determination of “general applicability and legal effect.” That makes it tricky to count them.Įxecutive decrees issued in today's era of activist government have different implications from those issued in a limited government context, that of our abandoned federalist system with power decentralized to states and individuals. The White House press office lists an even greater number that includes some not published in the Federal Register.ĭespite being the most mentioned in policy debate, executive orders are not (yet) the fountain from which most big decrees issue, rather, presidential memoranda are where the real action is. In keeping with the nanny state ethic, the president even issued an executive order enabling the federal government, as helicopter parent, to better regulate us with behavioral science.Īs of the end of 2015, President Obama had issued 242 executive orders according to the Federal Register office, 29 of them in 2015. The same holds for orders on cybersecurity information sharing and sanctions on individuals allegedly engaged in malicious cyber activity, both controversial for potential effects on privacy as well as for not passing through Congress. Most E.O.s are not regulatory in nature but for those that are, the complexity of overturning them grows as Washington administers everything, as what was once private or local or state activity gets absorbed, Borg-like, into D.C.'s federal machinery.Įxamples include President Obama’s executive order for a minimum wage for federal contractors and a Non-Retaliation for Disclosure of Compensation Information, which are among E.O.s that will reverberate for private firms that deal with the government - and eventually those that don't.
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