Posts Tagged ‘Executive Order’
Improving Cybersecurity – Obama Issues Executive Order during SOTU
Executive Order on Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order to strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure by increasing information sharing and by jointly developing and implementing a framework of cybersecurity practices with our industry partners. · Defense Industrial Base Information Sharing Program Now Open to Other Sectors: The Order expands the voluntary Enhanced Cybersecurity Services program, enabling near real time sharing of cyber threat information to assist participating critical infrastructure companies in their cyber protection efforts. · NIST to Lead Development of Cybersecurity Framework: NIST will work collaboratively with critical infrastructure stakeholders to [...]
Read Obama’s 23 Executive Orders on Gun Violence
Here are Obama's 23 Executive Orders on Gun Violence 1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system. 2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system. 3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system. 4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks. 5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun. 6. [...]
Suit Up, And Show Up For Gun Appreciation Day
The Washington Post reports that gun supporters behind the event are modeling the program after the tactics of marriage equality opponents, such as Mike Huckabee’s national Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day in response to the backlash the fast-food chain experienced from same-sex marriage advocates. Nearly a dozen organizations, including the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, are encouraging supporters to shop at gun stores and visit shooting ranges in protest over potential crackdowns. Caption: TIME Magazine / Image Credit: gunappreciationday.com By: Edmund Jenks - West Coast Editor Those of us who appreciate our God granted (not "strong man" or government granted) freedoms protected through the Constitution of the United States [...]
Obama: I have Executive Power over Guns
Obama: Some Gun Control Measures 'I Can Accomplish Through Executive Action' "I'm confident that there are some steps that we can take that don't require legislation and that are within my authority as president." President Obama said he'd take "executive action" to deal with guns at his press conference today: "My understanding is the vice president's going to provide a range of steps that we can take to reduce gun violence," said Obama. "Some of them will require legislation, some of them I can accomplish through executive action. Read More
President Obama Executive Order – Reestablishment of Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 7, 2012 EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - Executive Order -- Reestablishment of Advisory Group By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 4001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), 42 U.S.C. 300u-10, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Reestablishing the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health. The Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health (Advisory Group), as set forth under the provisions of Executive Order 13544 of June 10, 2010, and continued by section 2 of Executive Order 13591 of November [...]
President Obama Signs executive order protecting Russian Assets
WASHINGTON (CN) - President Barack Obama extended an executive order protecting the assets of the Russian Federation used in a program to stabilize the security of nuclear material. The provisions are extended for a year. via Courthouse News Service. EXECUTIVE ORDER BLOCKING PROPERTY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM EXTRACTED FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, [...]
Friday Morning Tweets, From Holder To Hispanics
Another Bad Week in O' Town - Anytime an incumbent is below 45% in approval ratings, that incumbent should hire a real estate agent because his time is up. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Mitt Romney attracting 48% of the vote, while President Obama earns 43%. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate, and another three percent (3%) are undecided. Image Credit: Rasmussen Reports By: Edmund Jenks - West Coast Editor This has been another bad week for President Barack Obama and his Administration. From Attorney General Eric Holder requesting and receiving Executive Privilege for having to produce documents Congress is asking Eric Holder to produce in conjunction to its investigation into the death of Brian Terry and its arms operation known [...]
Executive Order — Assignment of Functions Relating to Certain Promotion and Appointment Actions in the Armed Forces
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 27, 2012 EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - ASSIGNMENT OF FUNCTIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN PROMOTION AND APPOINTMENT ACTIONS IN THE ARMED FORCES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Assignment of Functions to the Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of Defense shall perform the functions of the President under the following provisions of title 10, United States Code: (a) the first sentence of section 14111(a) with respect to reports relating to the grades of brigadier general or above, or rear admiral (lower half) or above; (b) sections 629(c)(2) [...]
Congresswoman Jackson Lee: Obama Should Extend Payroll Tax Cut by Executive Order
One should keep in mind this is the same Congresswoman who asked if the Jet Propulsion Laboratory had taken a photo of the Neil Armstrong Moon Landing site with the Mars Rover. I can almost understand the confusion, even though the Johnson Space center is in her district, about space, but this is a Congresswoman who took an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States. One would think she would have read it. U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8 The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; via USConstitution.net. Someone please remind [...]
Executive Order 12473 – 2011 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 13, 2011 Executive Order -- 2011 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code (Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. 801-946), and in order to prescribe amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, prescribed by Executive Order 12473, as amended, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Parts III and IV of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, are amended as described in the Annex attached and made a part of this order. Sec. 2. These amendments shall take effect 30 days from the date of this [...]
