Posted on 01/27/2015 8:24:08 AM PST by rktman
President Obama announced Sunday that he’ll use his executive authority to designate 12 million acres in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness, walling it off from resource development. This abrogates a 1980 deal in which Congress specifically set aside some of this acreage for future oil and gas exploration. It’s also a slap at the new Republican Congress, where Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been corralling bipartisan support for more Arctic drilling.
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An EO can be reversed by Congress.
Put it into a must pass appropriations bill.
If Odumbo vetoes, override.
It is time the punk in the White House is put in his place.
If there is ever another Republican president, one who isn’t another Democrat, he or she can write a memo saying drill baby drill, and that desolate ice wilderness can be useful.
Tell them you’d like to build hundreds of square miles of windmills up there, though, and you’re in business. —
This is not funny!
Remember Cranston and the Calif wilderness...
Places where I personally could not go, are now full of windmills.
Still cannot go there and they are ugly and dangerous, etc.
More evidence that Obama is receiving benefits of ENABLING by Congress, just like HITLER:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
Those windmills generate ONE THING in abundance - liberal self righteousness.
” If Odumbo vetoes, override.”
You’re in dreamland.
Maybe we can get them into a range war.
You know, windmill versus solar.
My illusion of integrity in office has not existed for six years.
This is just a taste of similar things to come. There is going to be a torrent of all manner of executive orders as he moves to further consolidate his power. No resistance from the congress is seen as a green light. He has free reign over the next two years, and quite possibly more. After all, who is going to stop him? Certainly not the Republican “controlled” congress.
That would only happen over a battle for subsidies.
It’s always a conflict over resources,
but these days, those resources aren’t land-based,
but gov’t based.
The states are addicted to the “free” money. They’re not going to revolt IMO.
another slap in the face? no surprise.
Obama is a slap in the face ,, daily.
The idiots of CONGRE$$ gladly offer the other cheek .. daily.
This Brown Clown is INSANE!
States right, Alaska should fight this.
States right, Alaska should fight this.
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS20846.pdf
Presidential Revocation and Modification of Executive Orders
Executive orders are undoubtedly one of many tools available to Presidents to further policy goals
during his Administration. By their very nature, however, executive orders lack stability, especially in the face of evolving presidential priorities. The President is free to revoke, modify, or supersede his own orders or those issued by a predecessor.
The practice of Presidents modifying and revoking executive orders is exemplified particularly where orders have been issued to assert control over and influence the agency rulemaking process. Beginning with President Gerald Ford’s Administration, the following timeline demonstrates the gradual modification by succeeding Presidents in supplementing the congressionally mandated rulemaking process with a uniform set of standards regarding cost-benefit considerations.
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President Gerald Ford issued Executive Order 11821, which required agencies to issue inflation impact statements for proposed regulations.
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President Jimmy Carter altered this practice with Executive Order 12044, which required agencies to consider the potential economic impact of certain rules and identify potential alternatives.
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President Ronald Reagan revoked President Carter’s order and implemented a scheme that arguably asserted much more extensive control over the rulemaking process. He issued Executive Order 12291, which directed agencies to implement rules only if the “potential benefits to society for the regulation outweigh the Executive Orders: Issuance, Modification, and Revocation Congressional Research Service potential costs to society.”
This required agencies to prepare a cost-benefit analysis for any proposed rule that could have a significant economic impact.
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President William J. Clinton later issued Executive Order 12866, which modified the system established during the Reagan Administration.
While retaining many of the basic features of President Reagan’s order, Executive Order 12866 arguably eased cost-benefit analysis requirements, and recognized the primary duty of agencies to fulfill the duties committed to them by Congress.
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President George W. Bush subsequently issued two executive orders—Executive Orders 13258 and 13422—both of which amended the Clinton executive order.
Executive Order 13258 concerned regulatory planning and review, and it removed references from Clinton’s executive order regarding the role of the Vice President, and instead referenced the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) or the Chief of Staff to the President.
Executive Order 13422 defined guidance documents and significant guidance documents and applied several parts of the Clinton executive order to guidance documents.
It also required each agency head to designate a presidential appointee to the newly created position of regulatory policy officer. Executive Order 13422 also made changes to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs’ (OIRA) duties and authorities, including a requirement that OIRA be given advance notice of significant guidance documents.
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President Barack Obama revoked both of these orders via Executive Order 13497.
Its not free money. The money came from the states in the first place.
Obama refuses to approve or fund a customs plaza for the new bridge being built over the Detroit river. (that’s clearly federal infrastructure) He would only approve the project if Rick Snyder gave $100 million to Detroit pension funds. Snyder said no and started the project without approval. Nobody is stopping it and nobody is bombing the Canadian construction sites.
...or ISIS fulfills their threat.
I had read bits of this but thank you for the summary of recent EO history.
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