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Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) are draft classified executive orders, proclamations, and messages to Congress that are prepared for the President of the United States to exercise or expand powers in anticipation of a range of emergency hypothetical worst-case scenarios, so that they are ready to sign and put into effect the moment one of those scenarios comes to pass.
[2] Congressionally-authorized emergency presidential powers are sweeping and dramatic, and range from suspending all laws regulating chemical and biological weapons, including the ban on human testing (50 U.S.C. § 1515, passed 1969); to suspending any Clean Air Act implementation plan or excess emissions penalty upon petition of a state ...
1962: Executive Order 11051 was revoked by Executive Order 12148: Specifies the duties and responsibilities of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all executive orders into effect in times deemed to be of increased international tension, economic crisis, and/or financial crisis
Exclusive: It's known as the Doomsday Book—a stack of papers in a classified safe listing extraordinary powers a President might use after a nuclear attack or other catastrophe. Some former ...
Executive Order 11490, titled “Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to Federal Departments and Agencies,” was an executive order issued by President Richard Nixon on October 28, 1969. It mandated federal agencies to develop comprehensive plans for maintaining essential functions during national emergencies, including scenarios such as ...
The day he declared the pandemic a national emergency, Trump cryptically said, "I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about." Trump's emergency powers worry some ...
The power to waive certain federal license requirements so the doctors from other states can provide services in states with the greatest need." [143] [144] On April 10, 2023, three years after the emergency declaration, Congress sent a Joint Resolution terminating the national emergency to the President's desk, at which point it was signed ...
Declaring a national emergency unlocks an unwieldy array of presidential authorities. The best time to reform them is when the White House is occupied by someone who’s unlikely to abuse them.