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  2. List of United States federal executive orders - Wikipedia

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    1982: Executive Order 12372: [28] Intergovernmental Review of federal programs; 1986: Executive Order 12564: Drug-Free Federal Workplace; 1987: Executive Order 12601: President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic; 1988: Executive Order 12656: Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities; 1988: Executive Order 12631: Working Group on ...

  3. Independent agencies of the United States federal government

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    The degree to which the President has the power to use executive orders to set policy for independent executive agencies is disputed. [4] Many orders specifically exempt independent agencies, but some do not. [5] Executive Order 12866 has been a particular matter of controversy; it requires cost-benefit analysis for certain regulatory actions ...

  4. Executive order - Wikipedia

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    By Executive Order 6581, the president created the Export-Import Bank of the United States. On March 7, 1934, he established the National Recovery Review Board (Executive Order 6632). On June 29, the president issued Executive Order 6763 "under the authority vested in me by the Constitution", thereby creating the National Labor Relations Board.

  5. What is an executive order? How they differ from presidential ...

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    An executive order is a signed directive by a U.S. president on how they want the federal government to operate. Using the force of the law, these orders range from federal employee holidays to ...

  6. Explainer-What can Trump do through executive orders? - AOL

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    Republican President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to reshape U.S. policy with a blizzard of executive orders within hours of taking office next week. Here is a look at what the president can and ...

  7. United States federal executive departments - Wikipedia

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    The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States.They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but (the United States being a presidential system) they are led by a head of government who is also the head of state.

  8. Executive Office of the President of the United States

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    The Eisenhower Executive Office Building at night. In 1937, the Brownlow Committee, which was a presidentially commissioned panel of political science and public administration experts, recommended sweeping changes to the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, including the creation of the Executive Office of the President.

  9. Trump to issue executive order defining sex as ‘male and ...

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    President Trump will on his first day in office Monday issue an order defining a person's sex as "male or female" — requiring government agencies to use the "immutable" designation on forms and ...