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Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Designated the World Organization for Animal Health as a public international organization entitled to specified US privileges and immunities.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Expanded Purple Heart eligibility for qualifying attacks by foreign terrorist organizations after September 11, 2001.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Expanded cyber sanctions to information tampering and used them against Russian actors linked to the 2016 election interference.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Set 2017 pay schedules for civilian employees, military personnel, judges and senior officials.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Set the line of Labor Department officials who may act when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary cannot serve.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Established a Northern Bering Sea resilience area, tribal advisory role and offshore protections; its 2021 reinstatement was express.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Revised the statutory and executive line of officials who could act as Homeland Security Secretary.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Assigned federal responsibilities for cross-border child-support cases under the Hague Convention.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Modernized federal prevention, early detection, rapid response and control policy for invasive species.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Made qualifying Fulbright, Gilman and Critical Language Scholarship alumni eligible for noncompetitive federal appointments.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Allowed qualifying current and former Foreign Service employees to receive career or career-conditional civil-service appointments without another competition.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a cabinet-level council to coordinate federal investments and technical assistance around locally led community priorities.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Organized US departments around prevention, detection and response to infectious-disease threats through the Global Health Security Agenda.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Established a presidential working group to coordinate US support for expanding electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Let the OPM Director activate emergency leave-sharing programs without a separate presidential direction each time.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Assigned federal roles for observing, forecasting and mitigating harmful solar and geomagnetic events.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Updated the CFC’s volunteer pledges and administration; OPM later added recurring annuity gifts for retirees.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Ended the national emergency and economic sanctions imposed on Burma’s former military government under older orders.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created the National Background Investigations Bureau and clarified roles across federal suitability, credentialing and security-clearance systems.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Made a second 2016 package of changes to the Manual for Courts-Martial.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Ended the Côte d’Ivoire national emergency and removed the remaining targeted sanctions.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Adjusted implementation timing and responsibilities for the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces contractor program.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Set a temporary order of succession for the EPA Administrator below the Deputy Administrator.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Established who may act as Veterans Affairs Secretary when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary cannot serve.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Set a line of officials who could act as Treasury Secretary when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary were unavailable.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Expanded the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa from 15 to 26 private-sector members.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Assigned presidential responsibilities in the 2015 customs and trade-enforcement law to USTR and executive agencies.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Set government-wide principles for reducing civilian casualties before strikes and assessing and responding to harm afterward.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Established government-wide coordination for entrepreneurship programs, investment, exchanges and overseas commercial engagement.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Revised court-martial procedure, evidence and punitive provisions under article 36 of the UCMJ.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Made prevention of mass atrocities a national-security priority and institutionalized an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Required wildfire-resistant design and site standards for certain federal buildings in the wildland–urban interface.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created White House and agency transition councils and required succession planning and transition preparation before elections.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Expanded Libya sanctions to actors threatening peace, attacking institutions, abusing human rights or exploiting state resources.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Directed agencies to identify and pursue actions that promote competition and improve information for consumers and workers.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Delegated presidential authority over the official Peace Corps seal or emblem to the Peace Corps Director.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Established a campaign medal for service connected with operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Blocked the North Korean government and Workers’ Party and broadly prohibited exports, investment and specified transactions.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Replaced the counterterrorism communications center with a broader Global Engagement Center for coordinated messaging to foreign audiences.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Assigned presidential duties under the 2015 trade-preferences law to USTR, Labor and other agencies.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a permanent interagency council for senior privacy officials to coordinate policy, workforce development and best practices.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a bipartisan expert commission to recommend how the nation could improve cybersecurity over the next decade.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Set minimum earthquake-safety requirements for federal buildings and federally leased, financed or regulated construction.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Implemented US commitments on the JCPOA’s Implementation Day while retaining authority for sanctions outside the nuclear deal.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Set 2016 civilian, military, judicial, executive and other federal pay schedules.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Directed agencies to improve SES recruitment, onboarding, development, mobility, performance management and recognition.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Closed most executive departments and agencies for the afternoon of Christmas Eve 2015.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Authorized targeted sanctions against actors driving violence, repression and instability in Burundi.