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George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Directed agencies to ensure faith-based and community organizations could compete for federally funded social-service programs on equal terms while preserving beneficiary protections.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created a presidential commission to examine the Postal Service’s finances, governance, universal service and long-term viability.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Delegated most presidential functions under the Trade Act of 2002’s trade-promotion and Andean-trade divisions to USTR and specified cabinet officials, while reserving identified negotiating, proclamation and congressional-submission decisions to the President.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Assigned custody, screening, protection, resettlement, diplomatic and emergency-support responsibilities for undocumented migrants intercepted in the Caribbean, including possible use of facilities at Guantanamo Bay.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created a Taft-Hartley Board of Inquiry to investigate the Pacific Coast port lockout between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and maritime employers and report to the President by October 8, 2002.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Directed agencies to expedite environmentally responsible reviews of high-priority transportation projects, created a Transportation-led interagency task force, and required annual reports on project results and streamlining lessons.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Updated federal port-security regulations by defining Coast Guard Area Commander and confirming that Captains of the Port, District and Area Commanders, the Commandant and designated Coast Guard personnel may exercise the enforcement powers in 33 CFR part 6.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Required agencies to adopt procedures for considering effects of draft rules on small entities, notify and respond to the SBA Office of Advocacy in specified cases, and required Advocacy to train agencies and report annually to OMB.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Directed the Attorney General to establish a Justice Department-led task force to coordinate significant corporate and financial-fraud investigations, prosecutions, asset recovery, intergovernmental cooperation and policy recommendations.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created a Department of Education White House Initiative and presidential advisory board for tribal colleges, required participating agencies to prepare three-year plans and annual performance reports, and revoked EO 13021.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Designated the period beginning September 11, 2001 as one in which the armed forces were engaged in armed conflict with a hostile foreign force, allowing qualifying service members to use the expedited naturalization rules in INA section 329.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Revoked EO 13129 and ended its Taliban-specific national emergency, while adding the Taliban and Mohammed Omar to EO 13224’s counter-terrorism sanctions annex and authorizing the State Secretary to update the Taliban’s aliases.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created a temporary OMB office to coordinate executive-branch planning for the proposed Department of Homeland Security, assist congressional work on authorizing legislation and organize personnel, funding and administrative support for the transition.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Directed eight departments and the Office of National Drug Control Policy to review fitness-related policies and report proposed actions within 90 days, and created an HHS-chaired interagency working group to coordinate physical activity, nutrition, screening and healthy-choice initiatives.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created a presidential advisory council within HHS to promote physical activity and sports participation, advise the President and HHS Secretary, coordinate public-private work and improve public information and program opportunities.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Removed language describing the FAA air-traffic function as inherently governmental and replaced EO 13180’s general review clause with a no-private-right provision, without changing the performance-based organization’s operational mission.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created a temporary presidential commission to study the public and private mental-health service system and recommend improvements in access, coordination, community integration, recovery-focused care and use of existing resources.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Amended the Manual for Courts-Martial to implement statutory changes and revise military trial, evidence, sentencing, record and review rules, including special-court-martial punishment limits and life without parole.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Set an EPA Administrator succession sequence below the Deputy Administrator and amended nine recent department succession orders so an official serving only in an acting capacity could not advance through the presidential sequence.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created a presidential homeland-security advisory council of up to 21 appointed members plus ex officio members, and four senior advisory committees, to advise on terrorism prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and intergovernmental coordination.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Designated the European Union, its listed institutions and instrumentalities, and Europol as public international organizations for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, bringing their officers, employees and representatives within the Act’s relevant foreign-official definitions.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Removed the Vice President from specified regulatory-review duties under EO 12866, reassigned several references to the OIRA Director or White House Chief of Staff and updated the regulatory working group’s membership.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Established the cabinet-level interagency task force required by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, chaired by the Secretary of State, to coordinate federal anti-trafficking work, evaluate progress, support annual country reports, organize data and recommend policy.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created an Education Department advisory board and required designated agencies to prepare annual plans, goals and performance reports intended to increase HBCU participation in federal programs, while directing an integrated federal plan and private-sector strategy.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Moved the President’s Commission on Excellence in Special Education report deadline from April 30 to July 1, 2002, leaving the commission’s study duties and post-report termination rule unchanged.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created the USA Freedom Corps as an interagency service initiative, a presidential council and a White House office to coordinate volunteering, national service, emergency preparedness and international service opportunities.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Added a delegation allowing the Transportation Secretary, then responsible for the Coast Guard outside Navy service, to exercise specified reserve, retired-member, enlistment, promotion and administration authorities invoked under EO 13223.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Excluded five Justice Department components—United States Attorneys’ Offices, the Criminal Division, INTERPOL–U.S. National Central Bureau, the National Drug Intelligence Center and the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review—from chapter 71 federal-sector collective-bargaining coverage.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Established a broad succession sequence for Secretary of State, beginning with the Deputy Secretaries and under secretaries and extending through specified UN representatives, ambassadors, counselors and other chiefs of mission.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Placed Senate-confirmed HHS assistant secretaries, the General Counsel and other Senate-confirmed HHS officers in an oath-date succession sequence after both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary became unavailable.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Set the 2002 pay schedules for the General Schedule, Foreign Service, Veterans Health Administration, Senior Executive Service, Executive Schedule, Vice President and Congress, federal judges, uniformed services and administrative law judges, including locality pay.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created a three-member Presidential Emergency Board under the Railway Labor Act to investigate the unresolved United Airlines mechanics dispute, report within 30 days and preserve the status quo through a second 30-day cooling-off period.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Set an eight-office line of succession to act as Veterans Affairs Secretary when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary were unavailable, subject to presidential discretion and federal vacancies law.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Set a line of succession among Treasury under secretaries, the General Counsel, deputy under secretaries and Senate-confirmed assistant secretaries when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary were unavailable.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Set a twelve-office line of succession to act as Labor Secretary when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary were unavailable, subject to presidential discretion and federal vacancies law.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Set a six-office line of succession to act as Interior Secretary when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary were unavailable, subject to presidential discretion and federal vacancies law.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Set a nine-office line of succession to act as Housing and Urban Development Secretary when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary were unavailable, subject to presidential discretion and federal vacancies law.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Set an eight-office line of succession to act as Commerce Secretary when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary were unavailable, subject to presidential discretion and federal vacancies law.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Set a ten-office line of succession to act as Agriculture Secretary when both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary had died, resigned or become unable to serve, subject to presidential discretion and federal vacancies law.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Designated the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption, known as GRECO, as a public international organization entitled to the privileges, exemptions and immunities available under the International Organizations Immunities Act.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Designated Afghanistan and its airspace as a combat zone for federal tax purposes, effective from September 19, 2001, so qualifying service could receive the Internal Revenue Code’s combat-zone treatment.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Closed most executive-branch departments and agencies on December 24, 2001 and excused employees from duty, while allowing agency heads to keep essential offices and staff working for national-security, defense or other public reasons.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created an 18-member presidential council to study and explain ethical questions arising from biomedical and behavioral science, including stem cells, cloning, genetics, neuroscience, assisted reproduction and end-of-life care.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Allowed the CIA Director to waive retirement-annuity reductions for a retiree temporarily re-employed during a life-or-property emergency or other unusual circumstances, without allowing new retirement credit for that service.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Invoked 10 U.S.C. § 2808 so the Defense Secretary could undertake otherwise unauthorized military construction necessary to support armed-forces use during the post-September 11 national emergency.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Created an interagency task force to recommend how the public could prepare for terrorist attacks and volunteer in support of state and local health and safety officials.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Set procedures for incumbent and former presidents to review requested presidential records and assert constitutionally based privileges before the National Archives released them.
George W. Bush · 2001–2009
Added the Health and Human Services Secretary to the agency heads authorized under EO 10789 to use Public Law 85-804 extraordinary contracting powers for national-defense functions.