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Listed below are executive orders numbered 13489–13764 and presidential memoranda signed by U.S. President Barack Obama (2009-2017). There are an additional 1186 presidential proclamations that are not included here, but some of which are on WikiSource. The signing statements made by Obama during his time in office have been archived here.
At the federal level of government in the United States, laws are made almost exclusively by legislation. Such legislation originates as an Act of Congress passed by the U.S. Congress; such acts were either signed into law by the president or passed by Congress after a presidential veto. So, legislation is not the only source of regulations.
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
Barack Obama sponsored 147 bills from January 4, 2005 until November 16, 2008. Two became law. [1] This figure does not include bills to which Obama contributed as cosponsor, such as the Coburn-Obama Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 or the Lugar-Nunn Cooperative Proliferation Detection, Interdiction Assistance, and Conventional Threat Reduction Act of 2006.
List of executive actions by Barack Obama, EO #13489–13764 (2009–2017) List of executive orders in the first presidency of Donald Trump, EO #13765–13984 (2017–2021) List of executive actions by Joe Biden, EO #13985–14144 (2021–2025) List of executive orders in the second presidency of Donald Trump, EO #14145–present (2025–present)
The outgoing president has made no secret of the fact that he thinks Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again plan to create a database of Muslims is a bad idea. Obama just made it harder for Trump to ...
Obama headed a delegation of between 800 and 1,200, including businesspeople and congressional leaders who had helped in establishing the 2014 normalization deal. [88] Obama was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. [88] Obama said that he would only visit Cuba if he could meet with Cuban dissidents: "If ...