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Defend America on Saturday, February 13, 2010 11:54:45 PM
Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power
Published: February 12, 2010
WASHINGTON — With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress,
President Obama
and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive
power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic
policy priorities.
Mr. Obama has not given up hope of progress on Capitol Hill, aides
said, and has scheduled a session with Republican leaders on health
care later this month. But in the aftermath of a special election in
Massachusetts that cost Democrats unilateral control of the Senate, the
White House is getting ready to act on its own in the face of partisan
gridlock heading into the midterm campaign.
“We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/politics/13obama.html