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Regulate! Regulate! Obama will use his last year in office to use executive powers on everything from drones to e-cigs - to Republicans' fury

  • President plans an aggressive strategy of executive action before he leaves office in January 2017
  • New regulations would include financial reforms, food safety, corporate executives' pay and possibly the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 
  • Republicans may try to block actions through Congress or the courts 

By J. TAYLOR RUSHING, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 12:17 EST, 26 November 2015 | UPDATED: 14:25 EST, 26 November 2015

 

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President Barack Obama is not planning to leave the White House quietly.

The 44th president is instead preparing a wide range of executive actions and orders, including a variety of regulations, before he leaves office in January 2017.

The administrative actions are a way to circumvent the Republican-controlled Congress, which Obama has repeatedly shown a willingness to do, most notably on the issue of immigration.

New reports on Thursday point to a little-noticed set of planned regulations that the White House published last week, showing priorities that agencies are currently working on.

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I WILL NOT GO QUIETLY: Republicans who are incensed at President Obama's use of executive authority will soon have much more to be upset about, as Obama plans an aggressive series of new regulations in his final year in office 
 
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I WILL NOT GO QUIETLY: Republicans who are incensed at President Obama's use of executive authority will soon have much more to be upset about, as Obama plans an aggressive series of new regulations in his final year in office 

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 That document, called a Unified Agenda, establishes a set of deadlines through the end of next year for the new regulations.

Implementing the regulations is important because while items still waiting on a to-do list can be simply dropped if Obama is followed by a Republican president, a federal rule that is already in action would be more difficult to reverse.

Near the top of Obama's list is financial regulations that were called for by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform bill that Congress pushed through as a reaction to the 2008 economic collapse.

That includes a rule that the Securities and Exchange Commission is finalizing that would require companies to tie the pay of their top executives to the performance of the company as a whole. The so-called 'Pay for Performance' rule is scheduled to be released next fal.

Also waiting on the list are new rules to update food safety laws under the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act, as well as a rule by the Food and Drug Administration that would require companies importing products from overseas to verify that their foreign suppliers are complying with U.S. safety standards.

In the mix as well is the issue of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. While Obama has not detailed any specific executive action regarding the controversial prison, he has also been careful to leave the option open.

Obama ran for the presidency in 2008 partly on a promise to close the prison, arguing that its controversy only serves as a recruiting tool for terrorists. But Congress has balked at allowing the detainees into U.S. prisons, forcing Obama to reduce the prison population by transferring prisoners to other countries.

He has done so steady, whittling down the population from a one-time high of nearly 300 to only slightly more than 1oo today.

Obama leaves office in January 2017
 
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If that remaining population is still in place a year from now, Obama could take executive action to transfer the prisoners, release them, or somehow send them into the U.S. 

Republicans have been quick to criticize Obama for what they perceive as an overly eager use of his executive authority, such as his attempt to allow amnesty to some illegal immigrants who are currently employed in the U.S. 

If they don't win the White House next November, Republicans have two other places to which they can turn, starting with the Congressional Review Act - a 1996 law which allows Congress to overrule a new federal regulation within 60 days of its implementation.

Republicans' other option is the courts, where they have had limited success. For example, while Obama's signature domestic policy achievement - the 2010 Affordable Care Act - has been twice upheld by the Supreme Court, smaller parts of it have been struck down.

 

Likewise, Obama's immigration amnesty orders are now tangled up in a court case in Texas, where a judge is blocking the administration's action.

Also, the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Waters of the U.S. rule, which would broaden the regulation of navigable waterways throughout the country, is also on hold because of a lawsuit against it. 

 

 

 


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-- Edited by Lady Gaga Snerd on Friday 27th of November 2015 08:49:26 AM

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Please tell me someone else thought of Dr Who when reading the title

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Food safety? Who needs food safety? Food safety is for wusses!
More Chinese toxic contaminants like melamine in the food! It's good for you, because what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

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Yes. None of us can survive without Obama telling us how to wipe our own arses.

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Guess what Welts? Most of us are perfectly capable of managing our own lives. Maybe you love govt to treat u like a 2 yr old but the rest of us dont look at govt as our daddy and Savior.

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Right. And you can identify toxins in your Chinese imported food how? By smell? Does it glow in the dark?
Go ahead and eat poison. No skin off my nose.

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Yes. Let's make food safety the catching point.

Not the probable release of KNOWN terrorists into our country.

Not the granting amnesty of millions of criminals. Including more terrorists.

Not the manipulation of our free market.

Or anything else that is way more important.

Let's just focus on food.

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Of course. And pretend he isnt passing a bunch of other crap to control our lives. Uh huh. We know how it works Welts. But its our country so we will decide whats best for us. Thanks so much!

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I'm wondering how long it takes him to leave the country after he leaves office.

If a former president becomes a citizen of another country, does the lifelong benefits go with him?

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I'm wondering how long it takes him to leave the country after he leaves office.
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he wouldn't last a week anywhere else in the world


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I'm wondering how long it takes him to leave the country after he leaves office.
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he wouldn't last a week anywhere else in the world

 Well. 

There is one or two places he could probably go and live like a desert king.

His wife and daughters, not so much.



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I'm wondering how long it takes him to leave the country after he leaves office.
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he wouldn't last a week anywhere else in the world

 Really?!

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he wouldn't last a week anywhere else in the world

 Really?  I think he's do quite well in places like Europe or Canada.



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weltschmerz wrote:

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I'm wondering how long it takes him to leave the country after he leaves office.
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he wouldn't last a week anywhere else in the world

 Really?  I think he's do quite well in places like Europe or Canada.


Goody for you. He can fist bump dictators and continue his Apology Tour. We see how well that worked out.

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Well, Isis would have no qualms whatsoever about putting his head on a pike in the middle of town.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
weltschmerz wrote:

 

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I'm wondering how long it takes him to leave the country after he leaves office.
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he wouldn't last a week anywhere else in the world

 Really?  I think he's do quite well in places like Europe or Canada.


 

Goody for you. He can fist bump dictators and continue his Apology Tour. We see how well that worked out.

It's a rather stupid comment to make, though. Every single person in the world wants to kill him?

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
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I'm wondering how long it takes him to leave the country after he leaves office.
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he wouldn't last a week anywhere else in the world

 Really?  I think he's do quite well in places like Europe or Canada.


 

Goody for you. He can fist bump dictators and continue his Apology Tour. We see how well that worked out.

It's a rather stupid comment to make, though. Every single person in the world wants to kill him?

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How is that a stupid comment? That is how he has operated for 6 years.

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I am saying Obama can buddy buddy up to ISIS and his Muslim brothers all he wants too.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

I am saying Obama can buddy buddy up to ISIS and his Muslim brothers all he wants too.

 And obviously that is NOT the entire world.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

I am saying Obama can buddy buddy up to ISIS and his Muslim brothers all he wants too.

 And obviously that is NOT the entire world.

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I really don't know what you are talking about with your "entire world" comments.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

I am saying Obama can buddy buddy up to ISIS and his Muslim brothers all he wants too.

 And obviously that is NOT the entire world.

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I really don't know what you are talking about with your "entire world" comments.

 I was RESPONDING to burns.

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Oh, alrighty then!  biggrin



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I like your Peanuts' avatars!

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Thanks!

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I don't care where he goes, so long as he is no longer in power. Good riddance.

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