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Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created interagency reviews to decide whether continued law-of-war detention remained necessary for security.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Blocked Libyan government and Qadhafi-linked property to prevent asset diversion during the 2011 uprising.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created senior interagency committees to coordinate the federal intellectual-property enforcement strategy.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a private-sector advisory council on economic growth skills competitiveness and job creation.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Reaffirmed cost-benefit review public participation flexible regulation and retrospective review of existing rules.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Established the Internship and Recent Graduates Programs and modernized the Presidential Management Fellows Program.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Set 2011 executive branch salary tables while continuing the statutory freeze on across-the-board increases.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a temporary private-sector advisory council to promote community-led solutions to social problems.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Required federal social-service partnerships to protect religious independence beneficiary choice and church-state safeguards.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a central interagency hub to coordinate criminal administrative and intelligence work enforcing US export controls.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Specified which eligible Justice Department officials could act as Attorney General during a vacancy or absence.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Replaced inconsistent sensitive-but-unclassified labels with a uniform program for legally protected unclassified information.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Renewed a White House initiative and advisory commission focused on improving educational outcomes for Hispanic students.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created an interagency task force to develop a long-term Gulf Coast ecosystem restoration strategy after Deepwater Horizon.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Authorized asset freezes and entry restrictions for Iranian officials responsible for serious human-rights abuses after the 2009 election.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Updated military justice rules and punitive articles in the Manual for Courts-Martial for 2010.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Blocked property of designated North Korean persons and those supporting arms trade luxury goods money laundering and other prohibited activity.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a temporary State Department office to recruit deploy and support civilian personnel working on Afghanistan and Pakistan policy.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Established a uniform classified-information safeguarding and access program for nonfederal homeland-security partners.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Directed agencies to make the federal government a model employer and pursue hiring 100,000 people with disabilities over five years.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Adopted a national ocean policy and created a National Ocean Council to coordinate science-based coastal and marine planning.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Directed agencies to strengthen and harmonize security for dangerous biological agents while preserving legitimate research and diagnostics.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Expanded the presidential fitness council’s remit to include sports participation and nutrition and created an advisory committee.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Implemented the Affordable Care Act’s interagency prevention council and required a national health-promotion strategy.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created an independent commission to examine the Deepwater Horizon disaster and recommend safer offshore drilling and spill response.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Specified the order in which eligible Agriculture officials could act as Secretary during a vacancy or absence.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a temporary State Department organization to coordinate the civilian transition and strategic partnership with Iraq.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created an interagency task force to improve federal support contracting and access to capital for veteran-owned small businesses.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Re-established PCAST to give the President outside scientific and technical advice and fulfill statutory advisory roles.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a private-sector advisory board to recommend improvements in federal management productivity technology and service delivery.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Strengthened the Interagency Group on Insular Areas and required annual consultation with governors of four US territories.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Declared a Somalia-related national emergency and authorized asset freezes against people threatening peace obstructing aid or supporting piracy and violence.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Directed federal implementation of the Affordable Care Act to follow statutory restrictions on using federal funds for abortion services.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Mobilized cabinet agencies to expand export promotion trade finance market access and enforcement with a goal of doubling exports in five years.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Specified which Senate-confirmed Defense officials could act as Secretary when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary were unavailable.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Established an Education-led White House initiative and advisory board to strengthen federal support and opportunities for historically Black colleges and universities.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created the bipartisan Bowles–Simpson commission to recommend ways to improve the federal government’s medium- and long-term fiscal position.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created an outside advisory council on financial education access saving credit and household financial capability.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Authorized activation of selected reserve and Individual Ready Reserve personnel to support the US response to Haiti’s 2010 earthquake.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a bipartisan council of state and territorial governors to advise federal officials on National Guard homeland defense and civil-support matters.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Directed agencies to plan rapid dispensing of medical countermeasures to affected populations after a biological attack.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Established the current executive-branch system for classifying declassifying safeguarding and reviewing national-security information.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Set 2010 executive military and federal civilian pay rates under existing compensation statutes.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Extended additional privileges and immunities to INTERPOL in the United States while preserving limits in its original designation.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Excused most executive-branch employees from duty for the last half of Christmas Eve 2009.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created federal labor-management forums and encouraged bargaining over workplace matters to improve service delivery.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Created a presidential advisory commission to study emerging bioethical questions in medicine science and technology.
Barack Obama · 2009–2017
Required agencies to identify high-dollar improper-payment programs increase accountability and improve recovery and eligibility checks.