Posted on 12/06/2007 2:42:03 PM PST by icwhatudo
Executive Order: Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Monday, December 24, 2007
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, 2007, the day before Christmas Day, except as provided in section 2 below.
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, 2007, for reasons of national security or defense or other public need.
Sec. 3. Monday, December 24, 2007, 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.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 6, 2007.
Nevermind. It’s the “Executive Branch,” not the “Legislative.”
so you knew one that worked hard 5 days a week
Wohooo! Government employees rejoice!
This includes Military too!!!! Yeah!!!!
Our company asked for volunteers to work so the majority could have off. I volunteered. It will be quiet and I can wear my jammies if I want to! lol Then I get an extra 8 hours to take another time. :)
That was extremly nice of you. Plus I love to work when nobody is there to bother you. Plus as a bonus you get a day off when everyone is there. God Bless you!!!
We, the “little people”, have to work that day. Who else is going to pay the “chosen ones” their outrageous salaries? Give me a break. I’m so disgusted anymore with Washington. Fat a$$ hogs living off the scraps of the “little people”. Their day of reckoning will come someday and not too soon.
What is your occupation? Plus chosen ones? Anybody can work for the federal government. You just have to apply and get hired.
No kidding. hkp123 does not even understand that their are folks who are in the military who deserve the day off. I guess 15K is a lot of money to people on FR. outrageous poster that is for sure!!!
I liked Reagan, but it was him that gave us (some of us) another day off - MLK Day.
And every MLK Day I thank Reagan for being able to sleep in. What is wrong with you? You seem very bitter. Were you turned away from the military or worse kicked out? Did you aply for a government job and they did not chose you? You cannot be this upset over a day off for goodness sake. Remember they are still giving money to study the mitsi fly...that is what you should be upset about.
Someone’s gotta answer the phone from all the ships at sea. We’ll be jolly yet vigilant.
I think W should amend the order for congress till January 1st. January 1, 2030.
I’m on vacation from the 22nd through the 3rd anyway so....Pltttttt..:0)
Not really, but someone has to sit at my desk...
They are not all fat hogs in Washington, lots of conservative military and ex-military working for DoD. Problem is that contractors can’t come in for work and have to take an unpaid leave day probably.
Illegals?
You are WRONG as I have always worked on 12/24 unless it fell on a weekend or I take a vacation day as I am doing again this year. I only know of about 25% of my friends or acquaintances that have off on 12/24.
We get 10 days, but 12/24 is not one of them.
MERRY CHRISTMAS & MAY GOD BLESS YOU!
Well...USPS is legally defined as an "independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States," (39 U.S.C. § 201) and is wholly owned by the government and controlled by Presidential appointees and the Postmaster General. As a quasi-governmental agency, it has many special privileges, including sovereign immunity, eminent domain powers, powers to negotiate postal treaties with foreign nations, and an exclusive legal right to deliver first-class and third-class mail. (from wikipedia)
So, yippee! My boss’s boss’s boss’s boss=George Bush and I get the day off!
Merry Christmas!
Your story was so emotionally touching, I switched my voter registration to Democrat!
Free tax money for everyone! Who's with me?
Yeah, they're taking the day off to hit the slopes.
When you went into the medical profession didn’t you realize that people sometimes get sick on holidays? It wouldn’t surprise me to find out that on rare occasions they may even get sick on weekends.
Even if only one person got it, it was worth the effort.
“;^)
Not really, but someone has to sit at my desk...
lol
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