Posted on 12/21/2012 11:33:01 AM PST by BruceS
EXECUTIVE ORDER
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CLOSING OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2012
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Monday, December 24, 2012, the day before Christmas Day, except as provided in section 2 of this order.
Sec. 2. The heads of executive branch departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on December 24, 2012, for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need.
Sec. 3. Monday, December 24, 2012, shall be considered as falling within the scope of Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and leave of employees of the United States.
Sec. 4. The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall take such actions as may be necessary to implement this order.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
BARACK OBAMA
Thread Wander. Better see a doctor.
What about the post office?
My local post office has a sign on the door which states they close at noon on Christmas Eve.
Don’t bust a gut. This is no big deal.
Libs in particular like to scream about separation of church and state. I think if they were really serious about that the government would stay open on Christmas.
My impression is you see something you don’t like?
Finally the federal government follows all the other private companies and gives the day before Christmas. I was at work on the day after Thanksgiving with all the buildings open and hardly anyone there while all the civilian companie employees were fighting for the latest gadget. Government employees were working....but hardly anyone was around as they took leave. It is absurd to work the Friday after Thanksgiving, the day before Christmas and quite frankly New Year’s Eve....it actually saves money on electricity and heating....but government doesn’t care about saving money.
Does this free day off apply to any military ?
Of course.
So what? Everybody would be using their leave or go in and do nearly nothing because nobody is around anyway. This is no different than defense contractors like Lockheed, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman using the Friday before Christmas to have a big company Christmas party while they’re all on the clock being paid with defense contract money (yes, taxpayer money).
What a travesty. So when everybody else is eating Christmas snacks and drinking egg nog, you’ll be hard at it, nose to the grindstone, right? Make to post pictures. I’m sure your family will be real happy with you.
What a travesty. So when everybody else is eating Christmas snacks and drinking egg nog, you’ll be hard at it, nose to the grindstone, right? Make sure to post pictures. I’m sure your family will be real happy with you.
I am here at the Naval Academy!!! And it is definitely after noon!!!
Wait, that would be an official recognition of a religious event.
Make ‘em work you hypocrites.
In fact, keep Congress, the Senate, and the President on the job. These aren’t holy days. What’s wrong with you folks?
If we can’t pray in schools, you can’t take religious holidays off.
wqsn;t facing the frigging crap we;re facing now are we ?
So while you want to try and say Republicans have done this then I suggest you think about the crap we;re facing today and what the left’s messiah , their God, their cult leader has done to this country or are you forgetting that like so many on the lunatic left?
wasn’t facing the frigging crap we;re facing now are we ?
So while you want to try and say Republicans have done this then I suggest you think about the crap we;re facing today and what the left’s messiah , their God, their cult leader has done to this country or are you forgetting that like so many on the lunatic left?
See the the fringe left always try and move the debate to what Bush has done but always ignore their cult leaders spending, his lies, him watching Americans die, him acting as if he were a God etc
Being at the O Club doesn’t count....(;-)
No, whst I am saying that this has been done before by presidents of both parties, regardless of the circumstances. The economy was in free fall in December 2007 when this was done last time.
We would be better off if he had given all of them the entire YEAR off. They could have caused less damage to the American people if they weren’t there.
So no postal service on Monday either?
Civil servant. 19 years as a CPA in the private sector, now I help prepare financial statements for four Federal agencies.
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