A list of all of the Executive Orders put in place by Presidents

[thewayne]

Friends sent this to me (thanks, Rich & Karyn!), it's something that I've wanted to see for a long time.

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo/index.html

Comments

[silveradept]

They are not. The Executive Order is a tool of the president that "does stuff", often where there wasn't anything before. It's a tool of power that can create agencies and other Executive offices. Signing statements are intended to provide guidance to the executive agencies on interpretation and possible strategems for execution of the law that has been signed by the President. They are the President's opinion, rather than his fiat, in theory.

Signing statements are likely attached to their appropriate laws, although I don't know if they're actually published in U.S. code proper. It would make sense that they would be. Thomas may be able to help in some regards as to finding signing statements. I would think they are published somewhere attached to their appropriate laws.

[quasar273.livejournal.com]

I think some (most?) of GWB's signing statements have been classified. So he says he's not going to abide by the whole bill he's signing into law, but he won't even announce publicly which parts he's planning to ignore. For 'national security,' of course.

[silveradept]

That's thoroughly possible, although the last time people really took a look at them, there seems to be a bit of a boilerplate part attached that "the Executive will interpret this in such a way such that it doesn't interfere with what we believe to be our Constitutional authorities" to all the ones that are there. If there are, indeed, classified signing statements, I'm very curious as to what is contained in them.