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
No. My comment is from the fact that your statement has nothing to do with this thread, and it would appear you posted on the wrong thread . Ergo.... thread wander.
The Executive branch allows either the eve off or they permit an hour of compensated personal leave on the eve of most federal holidays. It’s been that way as long as I can remember and my federal service goes back to the early 90s.
Certainly your not setting up a straw man argument by accusing me of doing something I didn’t do. You wouldn’t do that, of course.
freefall, nothing like it is now, we’re facing a disaster with this spending and even obama said that but I guess for the obama cult obama can do no wrong
When Dubya did it in 2001, it was just 3 months after 9/11...just sayin'.
Let's save our fire for larger issues.
The agency I work for announced earlier that employees would be allowed to leave 3 hours early on Monday. Roughly 3/4 of my floor was already out on leave.
I'll gladly use the time to recharge...2013 is going to be even busier for the work I do. Roughly 700 banks are on the Troubled Bank List (down from 900), and higher taxes are going to make life more difficult for borrowers struggling to pay their home mortgages. The big banks are fine, as they can go to the Fed for easy money, not so for smaller community banks.
The FDIC has closed roughly 450 banks over the past 4 years, and there's much work to do to get the remaining assets back into the private economy.
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