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Executive Orders

April 14, 2010

Executive Order--Interagency Group on Insular Areas

April 13, 2010

Executive Order concerning Somalia

March 24, 2010

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Executive Order -- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's

Consistency with Longstanding Restrictions on the Use of Federal

Funds for Abortion

March 11, 2010

Executive Order - National Export Initiative

March 01, 2010

Executive Order-- Providing an Order of Succession within the

Department of Defense

February 26, 2010

Promoting Excellence, Innovation, and Sustainability at Historically

Black Colleges and Universities

February 26, 2010

Executive Order-- Historically Black Colleges and Universities

February 18, 2010

Executive Order -- National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility

and Reform

January 29, 2010

Executive Order -- President's Advisory Council on Financial

Capability

January 17, 2010

Executive Order and Letter Regarding Haiti

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January 11, 2010

President Obama Signs Executive Order Establishing Council ofGovernors

December 30, 2009

Executive Order -- Medical Countermeasures Following a Biological

Attack

December 29, 2009

Executive Order - Original Classification Authority

December 29, 2009

Executive Order - Classified National Security Information

December 23, 2009

Executive Order -- Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay

December 17, 2009

Executive Order -- Amending Executive Order 12425

December 11, 2009

Executive Order -- Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and

Agencies on Thursday, December 24, 2009

December 09, 2009

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Executive Order: Creating Labor-Management Forums To Improve

Delivery of Government Services

November 23, 2009

Executive Order-- Reducing Improper Payments and Eliminating

Waste in Federal Programs

November 17, 2009

Executive Order - Establishment of the Financial Fraud

Enforcement Task Force

Executive Orders November 09, 2009

Executive Order - Veterans Employment Initiative

November 02, 2009

Executive Order Amending Executive Orders 13183 and 13494.

October 29, 2009

President Obama Signs Executive Order to Amend Executive Order

13462

October 14, 2009

Executive Order - Asian American and Pacific Islander Community

October 05, 2009

President Obama signs an Executive Order Focused on Federal

Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance

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October 01, 2009

Executive Order-Federal Leadership on Reducing Text Messaging

while Driving

September 29, 2009

Executive Order Federal Advisory Committees

June 23, 2009

Establishing a White House Council on automotive communities and

workers

May 12, 2009

Executive Order Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration

April 08, 2009

Executive Order Establishing The White House Office Of Health

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Executive Orders

March 11, 2009

Executive Order Creating the White House Council on Women and

Girls

March 09, 2009

Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving

Human Stem Cells

February 20, 2009

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Amending Executive Order 13390

February 19, 2009

Executive Order: Establishment of the White House Office of UrbanAffairs

February 06, 2009

Executive Order: Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal

Construction Projects

February 06, 2009

Presidential Executive Order Establishing the President's Economic

Recovery Advisory Board

February 05, 2009

Executive Order - Further Amendments To Executive Order

12859,Establishment Of The Domestic Policy Council

February 05, 2009

Executive Order: Further Amendments to Executive Order 12835,

Establishment of the National Economic Council

February 05, 2009

Amendments to Executive Order 13199 and Establishment of the

President's Advisory Council for Faith-Based and NeighborhoodPartnerships

January 30, 2009

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Revocation Of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Regulatory

Planning And Review

Executive Orders

January 30, 2009

Executive Order -- Economy in Government Contracting

January 30, 2009

Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts

January 30, 2009

Executive Order -- Notificiation of Employee Rights Under Federal

Labor Laws

January 22, 2009

Ensuring Lawful Interrogations

January 22, 2009

Review of Detention Policy Options

January 22, 2009

Closure Of Guantanamo Detention Facilities

January 21, 2009

Ethics Commitments By Executive Branch Personnel

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Obama Gets His Trotsky, Takes

The *High Road* To Union

Labor

Posted by Dave Poff (haystack) (Profile)

Thursday, April 15th at 8:52PM EDT

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Much has been written about President Obamas far-leftproclivities, the radical foundations beneath the friends andassociates who helped shape his views throughout the

formative years of his political development, and the tinfoilhat-wearing suspicion that his Presidency is nothing morethan a years-in-the-making conspiracy against all thatAmerica has ever stood for. As one most likely to be thefirst to mock the black helicopter crowd, I have alwaysbeen hard-pressed to buy into that meme; Ive neverbelieved that a secret conspiracy of greater than onecould successfully be pulled offespecially amongst self-

aggrandizing and back-stabbing Politicians and theirsmoke-filled backroom croniesuntil now.

But President Obama suffers no fools over where his newNLRB Chairstands in regard to employees and theirrelationship with management and the business owners forwhom they work:

Just as U.S. Citizens cannot opt against having acongressman, workers should not be able to choose againsthaving a union as their monopoly-bargaining agent.

Its just taken Obama this long to get all the pieces lined upin order to, by Presidential fiat, force Americas middleclass and working families to join the Union and besubservient to the whims of Union bosses.

Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. The verynext day he issued 2 Executive Orders (scroll to the bottomof page if you care to click through). The first was in regardto Presidential Records and the other on Ethics

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Commitments By Executive Branch Personnel. All formaland standard stuff I presume. He issued three more on the22nd of January 2009 related to closing Guantanimo,

calling for a detention policy review, and seeking to ensurelawful interrogationsagain-no surprise there. Its what hedid 10 days into his Presidency (on the 30th of January)that appears to have laid the groundwork for his apparentconspiracy to incrementally socialize the Americanworkforce; his payback if you will to the Unions for the400 million dollars they spent to buy him that house onPennsylvania Avenue, and the over-arching goal of getting

taxpayers and non-union workers (92.8% of the non-Government workforce in 2009) to pay for years ofmismanagement of Union Pension funds, ultimately forcingthe restof us to make them solvent.

Executive Order 13496 (Notification of Employee rightsunder Federal labor laws), Executive Order 13495

(Nondisplacement of qualified workers under servicecontracts), Executive Order 13494 (Economy inGovernment contracting), and his Memorandum on theWhite House Task Force on Middle-Class WorkingFamilies, coupled with his remarks on these documents,bundle nicely together to indicate that President Obamameans to fix the middle class by getting us all to join theUnion.

By using the Executive Order President Obama has bowedto Big labor, flipped off Congress and the non-unionAmerican worker, and has successfully put a modern-dayversion ofLeon Trotsky in charge of deciding the future

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relationship between Business owners and their employees.And, the favor Obamapaidto Big Laborwith hisExecutive Order on Project Labor Agreements is no small

thing. He has, in essence, made it almost impossible for aunionized construction firm to NOT get awarded the bigprize. Further, by enriching Unions he helps assureDemocrats, in general, of a greater chance of beingenriched themselves:

By eliminating the vast majority of potential bidders onfederal construction projects, Obama guarantees two things.

First, the projects will cost taxpayers more because unionlabor is always more expensive. And with mandated PLAs,the cost premium for union contractors will be even greaterbecause fewer bidders always means less competition andhigher prices. Second, by guaranteeing unions a biggerstream of federal contracts, Obama is making sure that BigLabor, already among the Democrats biggest sources of

campaign cash, will have even more money to hand out forthe 2010 and 2012 elections. You scratch our back withtaxpayers dollars gleaned through PLA-based federalconstruction jobs, and well scratch your back withcampaign contributions. Thats the way it works inObamas business-as-usual Washington. Its also known insome quarters as the Chicago Way.[snip]

Another factor helps explain Obamas willingness to signan executive order that will put millions more tax dollars inunion coffers. Mix points out that unions under PLAstypically exact agreements that include requiringcontractors to make payments to union pension funds. This

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is an increasingly urgent issue, as the WashingtonExaminers Mark Hemingway has recently detailed in thesepages. According to Labor Department filings, the average

union pension has only enough money on hand to cover 62percent of the benefits it has promised to union members.Pension plans with 80 percent funding are consideredendangered by federal auditors, while those with lessthan 65 percent funding are put on the critical list. Withthis latest executive order, its clear that Obama intends togive unions on the critical list a massive dose of federal taxdollars to cure what ails them.

And, even more than the repayment of favors the Presidenthas embarked on for bigger bucks from Big Labor, loominglarger still are the realdetails in this devil: Union pensions.Considerthis:

Nonunion workers and private companies could be forcedinto absorbing the financial liabilities of underfunded union

pension plans, thanks to pending health care mandates andan executive order that could be finalized this year, policyanalysts and trade group representatives have concluded.

Even as unions continue to market themselves to newmembers on the basis of generous pension programs,government figures show these plans are performing poorlyin comparison with retirement packages that operatebeyond the orbit of organized labor.

In addition, unions are pushing the Obama administrationon project labor agreements (PLAs), which, among otherthings, will give their pension plans new sources of outside

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funding - nonunion workers on government contracts worthmore than $25 million.

The average union pension has resources to cover only 62

percent of what is owed to participants, according to thePension Benefit Guarantee Corp. Pensions with less than80 percent of the assets needed to cover present andprojected liabilities are considered endangered, whilethose that fall below a 65 percent threshold are classified ascritical under the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. figures also state that lessthan one in every 160 workers is covered by a unionpension with required assets.

Michelle Ringuette, a spokeswoman for the ServiceEmployees International Union (SEIU), acknowledged thatpension funds for her union and for others were facingdifficulties but said the fault lies with businesses, not the

unions.

Ahh, yesthe SEIU. The very same SEIU from whenceCraig Becker originated, and the very same SEIU that hasbeen known to beat up a Tea Party protester or two. Andthe very same SEIU that, in this same article, sees hugegains in their membership numbers with Obama at thehelm.

The issuance, 17 days into his Presidency, ofExecutiveOrder 13502 (Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federalconstruction projects) which heavily favors Unionizedconstruction firms in the bidding and procurement of

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services process for being awarded said constructionprojects by the Federal Government was strike one againstthe middle class worker. The recess appointment a year

laterof the wildly radical and socialist-minded CraigBeckerto the NLRB (despite strong bipartisan oppositionin Congress) was strike 2. The likely issuance of anExecutive order by years end relating to the so-calledHigh Road contracting policy, described in some scarydetail here, will be strike 3.

On Christmas Eve 2009, Brett McMahon (VP of Business

Development at Miller and Long Concrete ConstructionCompany) detailed the dirty little secrets about what wecan expect with PLAs and high road contracting with theFederal Government. In my 15 minute interview with Brettfor73Wire that lasted an hour and 15 minutes, I came tounderstand more than I cared to about Obamas impact onnon-union workers and the companies they work for. In

part II of this topic, Ill share more about what wediscussed and what he sees coming for the average middleclass worker. For now, a passage to consider at length fromhis Examiner Op-Ed:

[T]he order (EO 13502) discourages competition fromnonunion contractors by requiring that the jobs be awardedonly to contractors agreeing to recognize unions as

representatives of their employees for the life of aconstruction project.

Even if a nonunion contractor like mine successfullycompetes for a federal construction project and is willing tohave employees represented by a union without a vote by

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employees, the contractor would be forced to pay healthand pension benefits twice once to its employees underexisting benefit programs and once to the unions

programs. A contractors nonunion employees would beforced to pay union dues and would not benefit from eitheremployee or employer contributions to the union unlessthey decide to join the local union and become vested inunion programs.

So why should nonunion shops pay twice the benefit costsjust to work on federal construction projects that are

already paid for with their own tax dollars? The costlyprovisions in PLAs prevent nonunion contractors fromsubmitting their most competitive price and puts them at adisadvantage when bidding against union competitors. Youcan see why the order kills any incentive for nonunionshops to compete.

In essence, then, Obamas new way of doing business is to

allow you to be a non-union contractor and build stuff forhimbut youll have topretendto be a union member andactually pay them money to do so.

In part II well take a closer look at the Pensions BenefitGuarantee Corp., Multiple Employer Pension Plans,proposed Pension Bailout bills in Congress, and a host ofother ways in which the Oabama Administration means tounionize you and make you fix the pension plans of all hisbuddies running Big labor.

[haystack's note: this post originates at73Wire. It's here because I think this needs thewidest exposure possible]

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Senate Cap and Trade Bill SkippingCommittee Process-Will Be

Drafted Behind Closed Doors

Posted byjeffdunetz

Thursday, April 15th at 11:00AM EDT

If you enjoyed the lack of transparency shown by theSenate when crafting their version of Obamacare,you will love the way they plan on crafting the Capand Trade legislation. Instead of introducing the billand sending it to committee, future Nevada SenatorEmeritus, Harry Reid is taking over the process. Justas he did during the Obamacare process, Reid will betaking the bill drafting process behind his closedoffice doors for the deal making.

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Next week, Reid will be handed the reins of the bill

to cap greenhouse gas emissions while expanding

domestic oil, gas and nuclear power production. His

challenge could not be tougher

In an effort to keep the bill in Reids hands, the

sponsors Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey

Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) wont

officially introduce the bill in the Senate when they

unveil it to the public next week.

If we introduce it, itll get referred to committees,

Lieberman said. We want him to be able to work

with it and bring it out onto the floor as a leader

whenever hes ready.

There are those who hope that Joe Lieberman

switches parties when he has to run for reelection in2012. His cooperation with this secrecy effort is agood indication of why the country would be betteroff if Joe stayed in his own (Democratic) party andwas defeated by a Republican.

Already, some senators also are raising red flags

about the committee process, which they warn may

be circumvented if the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman

proposal moves directly into Reids office.

These bills need to go through committee, said

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Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.). If youre talking

about making major deals on energy policy, it needs

to go through the Energy Committee. If youre

making major deals on tax policy, it needs to gothrough the Finance Committee. I mean, if you want

to get it done.

What Senator Cantwell is forgetting is a committeeprocess would make it much harder to insertprovisions like the Corn Husker Kickback inserted

into the Obamacare bill.

Budget Committee ranking member Judd Gregg (R-

N.H.), a possible swing vote, said he would prefer the

committee process remain intact for the energy and

climate bill rather than shifting the debate into

Reids office. This concept of going through the

leaders office is a new concept in the legislative flowchart, Gregg said.

Speaking on the Senate floor yesterday, Sen. Byron

Dorgan (D-N.D.) repeated his call to move to floor

debate on S. 1462, the energy only approach

There are not a lot of weeks left in this legislative

session, and my fervent hope is, I would say to thosewho have been working on climate change and

blocking our ability to bring an energy bill to the

floor of the Senate, I hope perhaps we could find a

way to work together to bring the energy bill to the

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floor, Dorgan said. Thats the way the Senate

works. The Senate works by running things through a

committee.

Senate progressives are looking for every opportunityto circumvent dissent and to do an end-around theCommittee process. It certainly is not the opennessand transparency we were promised in 2008.Transparency is no longer important to the

progressives, now its all about checking off more

items from their agenda before the 2010 electionswhen they will once again be forced to negotiatecompromises with the GOP. Until then, they wereable to cut deals behind closed doors in the case ofObamacare, and while they caught some hell, in theend they were still able to shove health care downour throats. Now they are following the same roadmap for cap and tax legislation.

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That old stereotype of politicians working in smoke-filled backrooms are becoming the new normal(without the smoke). Just as it was during theObamacare process, this is an affront to the promisesof transparency promised by the President during thecampaign. It is a corruption of the way ourgovernment was outlined by our Founding Fathers.Power, they said, was to be in the hands of theAmerican People, not in the back rooms of the SenateMajority Leaders office.

If you want to read more from Jeff Dunetz go to his BlogThe Lid

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Congressman Eric Cantor Whips

Obama on Israel, Democrats Sell-

out Their Souls

This morning the New York Times ran a story aboutthe dramatic change in the relationship between theUnited States and Israel. It seemed to point out howthe people who are advising the President on MiddleEast issues, most of whom have long histories ofanti-Israel leanings (Jim Jones, Samantha Powers,

Robert Mally, Zbigniew Brzezinski, among others),have succeeded in getting the United States to step

back from its vital alliance with the Jewish State. Notthat the President needed much convincing as histrack record against Israel is problematic also.

When Mr. Obama declared that resolving the long-

running Middle East dispute was a vital nationalsecurity interest of the United States, he was

highlighting a change that has resulted from a

lengthy debate among his top officials over how best

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to balance support for Israel against other American

interests.

Those other interests are his desire to cuddle up to the

Muslim states while abandoning long term allies, notjust Israel, but Britain, France, Germany, andIndia,etc. Israel is the most problematic for Obama asshe is a specific target of the dictatorships he wants toappease.This shift, described by administration officials who

did not want to be quoted by name when discussing

internal discussions, is driving the White Houses

urgency to help broker a Middle East peace deal. It

increases the likelihood that Mr. Obama, frustrated

by the inability of the Israelis and the Palestinians to

come to terms, will offer his own proposed

parameters for an eventual Palestinian state. Mr.

Obama said conflicts like the one in the Middle Eastended up costing us significantly in terms of both

blood and treasure drawing an explicit link

between the Israeli-Palestinian strife and the safety

of American soldiers as they battle Islamic extremism

and terrorism in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Obama and his crew of Arabists are subscribers to the

invalid theory that everything in the Middle Eaststems from the Israel/Palestinian conflict. What thattheory is really attempting is to shift the blame for theArab-Muslim dysfunction and placing it on theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict and on Israeli in

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particular. This theory plays into the hands of all theMuslim dictators, autocrats and mullahs who use theterm "Zionist" as a scapegoat to justify their refusal

to embrace modernization, democratization andeconomic reform.

As soon as the time article spread its way throughCongress, Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va) let thePresident have it right between the eyes:

Israel is a democracy that has always made the

sacrifices necessary for peace despite living under

constant threats to their very existence. The true

barrier to ending the Mideast conflict is the

widespread Palestinian refusal to accept and to live

alongside Israel as a Jewish state. While Israel

continues its search for a reliable partner in peace,

Palestinian terrorism is still celebrated in the WestBank and Gaza. Despite this reality, since day one

the White House has applied a severe double

standard that refuses to hold the Palestinians

accountable for their many provocations. It makes

one wonder where the responsible adults are in the

administration?

The administrations troubling policy ofmanufacturing fights with Israel to ingratiate itself

with some in the Arab world is no way to advance

the cause of Mideast peace. What kind of message

is sent to the world when our country appears to

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turn its back on key strategic allies who share our

values?

The list of grievances supposedly stoking the hatred

of Islamic terrorists is endless and evolving. BeforeAl Qaeda used our support for Israel against us, Bin

Ladens main grievance was the presence of U.S.

troops in Saudi Arabia and sanctions against

Saddams Iraq both of which no longer exist. The

suggestion that terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan

will lay down their weapons if we distance ourselves

from Israel is blindingly nave. We know this because

its been tried before. For example, Russia has sided

with Israels Arab enemies since the days of the Cold

War, and today it condemns Israel at the U.N., sells

arms to Israels arch-enemies Syria and Iran, and is

attempting to block meaningful international

sanctions against Irans nuclear program. Did thisstop Islamist suicide bombers from murdering 38 in

an attack on two Moscow subway stations last

month?

With each passing day, more Americans are

becoming increasingly concerned about the

deteriorating state of U.S.-Israel relations. Thisconcern was expressed succinctly by a letter today

from World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder

to President Obama, who wrote, Our great country

and the tiny State of Israel have long shared the core

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values of freedom and democracy. It is a bond much

treasured by the Jewish people. In that spirit I

submit, most respectfully, that it is time to end our

public feud with Israel and to confront the realchallenges that we face together. I couldnt agree

more.

"The American people understand that Israel is a key

strategic ally in the Middle East, one that we should

stand with in our mutual struggle to prevent the

spread of Islamic extremism and a nuclear Iran."

After receiving this press release in the earlyafternoon, it was held in order to include possiblestatements coming from the Democratic side. I wassure that Chuck Schumer would say something justas powerful as Cantor, or Congressman Gary

Ackerman, both of whom have been supportive ofIsrael their entire careers. If not those Reps, maybeJerrold Nadler, or one of the other pro-Israelmembers of the Democratic Party. The strange partwas there was no voice coming out of the Democratsin Congress disagreeing with the President'smisdirected policy on Israel. Instead of doing the

right thing, Members of Congress decided to selltheir souls to advance their political careers bykeeping quiet about the Anti-Israel policies of aPresident from their own party. Shame, Shame onthem.

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Some people will point to the AIPAC-directed lettersigned by over 360 congressman admonishing the

President over the one sided pressure on Israel andthe lack of pressure on Iran. Its easy to be one of360+ names on a letter (Congressman Cantor signedthe letter also) its another thing to stand up and becounted. Unlike Cantor, the Democrats in Congressdon't have the guts to stand up and be counted.

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