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THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
Clinton to govern by executive order
Plans to bypass Congress with blitz of unilateral actions
This is the first of an on-going series of news stories examining the grab for executive power by the Clinton White House through the use of executive orders and presidential directives.
By Joseph Farah
Copyright 1998, WorldNetDaily
President Clinton, who has issued far more sweeping executive orders than any of his recent predecessors, plans a new blitz during the next few weeks in an effort to bypass Congress with a bold, and questionably constitutional, law-making strategy.
His first unilateral strike in the new campaign came -- ironically -- on Independence Day. He announced in his weekly radio address a new federal regulation requiring warning labels on containers of fruit and vegetable juices that have not been pasteurized. After that initiative, Clinton will take executive actions later in the week that are intended to increase the federal government's role in health care and the issue of juvenile crime, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. While not as sweeping as some other recent executive orders issued with little fanfare, and reported exclusively in WorldNetDaily, Clinton's new proposals are intended to send a signal to Congress that he does not fancy himself a lame duck as he approaches the midway point of his second term.
"He's ready to work with Congress if they will work with him," Rahm Emanuel told the Times. "But if they choose partisanship, he will choose progress," said the senior policy adviser to the president.
The power to issue executive orders originally was intended to give presidents rule-making authority over the executive branch. But some, like Clinton, have used it instead for sweeping public policy decisions. While some constitutional scholars question this use, Congress has not batted an eye over Clinton's recent actions, including Executive Order 13083, which overrode an earlier order by President Reagan reaffirming the 10th Amendment powers of states and and the rights of individuals.
Clinton's order, issued May 14 and reported in WorldNetDaily last month, lists nine "exceptions" under which the powers of the states and people could be abrogated by the federal government in direct conflict with the 10th Amendment. No member of Congress took exception to the order during the first 30-day comment period during which the House and Senate had the power to overrule it.
Following the report in WorldNetDaily last month, the White House removed any reference to Executive Order 13083 from the library's Web site. However, thought it is no longer listed among the documents available to the public, it can still be viewed at that site or on WorldNetDaily's new archive of government documents.
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