EO 12991
Adding the Small Business Administration to the President's Export Council
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Added the Small Business Administration’s leader to the President’s Export Council to strengthen small-business input on trade policy.
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EO 12990
Adjustments of Rates of Pay and Allowances for the Uniformed Services, Amendment to Executive Order No. 12984
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Amended the 1996 pay order to revise specified uniformed-service pay and allowance schedules.
EO 12989
Economy and Efficiency in Government Procurement Through Compliance With Certain Immigration and Naturalization Act Provisions
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Linked federal contracting to employment-eligibility compliance; a 2008 amendment converted it into the current contractor E-Verify framework.
EO 12988
Civil Justice Reform
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Set executive-branch practices for civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, regulatory drafting and administrative adjudication.
EO 12987
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12964
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Expanded representation on the Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy and adjusted its appointment structure.
EO 12986
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (regarding national parks)
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Extended selected statutory privileges to the International Union for Conservation of Nature while withholding immunity from suit and several related protections.
EO 12985
Establishing the Armed Forces Service Medal
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Created the Armed Forces Service Medal for significant United States operations involving no foreign armed opposition or imminent hostile action.
EO 12984
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay and Allowances
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Set 1996 federal civilian salary schedules, military basic pay and related allowances under annual statutory adjustment authorities.
EO 12983
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12871
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Added federal manager representatives and a progress report to the National Partnership Council’s labor-management program.
EO 12982
Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Authorized activation of Selected Reserve units and members to augment United States forces for operations in and around former Yugoslavia.
EO 12981
Administration of Export Controls
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Established deadlines and an interagency escalation process for reviewing dual-use export license applications.
EO 12980
Further Amendment to Executive Order No. 12852, as Amended
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Expanded the President’s Council on Sustainable Development from 25 to 29 members.
EO 12979
Agency Procurement Protests
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Required executive agencies to offer a fast, inexpensive internal process for bidders to protest federal procurement decisions.
EO 12978
Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions With Significant Narcotics Traffickers
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Declared a national emergency over Colombia-centered narcotics trafficking and blocked property and transactions of designated traffickers and supporters.
EO 12977
Interagency Security Committee
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Created a permanent interagency body to set and oversee security standards for nonmilitary federal facilities after the Oklahoma City bombing.
EO 12976
Compensation Practices of Government Corporations
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Directed covered government corporations to disclose senior-executive pay practices and submit unusually large bonuses for OMB review.
EO 12975
Protection of Human Research Subjects and Creation of National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Required federal agencies to review human-subject protections and created a national commission to advise on research ethics and genetic information.
EO 12974
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Continued 15 presidential advisory committees through September 1997, delegated their administrative oversight and closed two completed bodies.
EO 12973
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12901
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Extended the “Super 301” trade-barrier identification and reporting process for two additional annual cycles in 1996 and 1997.
EO 12972
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12958
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Expanded EO 12958’s definition of an agency so its classification rules covered any executive-branch entity possessing classified information.
EO 12971
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12425
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Expanded the statutory privileges available to INTERPOL in the United States, including customs-related treatment, while preserving specified exceptions.
EO 12970
Further Amendment to Executive Order No. 12864
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Extended the United States Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure through June 1, 1996.
EO 12969
Federal Acquisition and Community Right-To-Know
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Used federal contracting policy to encourage covered facilities to report toxic chemical releases under community right-to-know requirements.
EO 12968
Establishing uniform policies for allowing employees of the federal government access to classified information
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Established government-wide eligibility, due-process and reciprocity rules for federal employees and others who need access to classified information.
EO 12967
Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate Disputes Between Metro North Commuter Railroad and Its Employees Represented by Certain Labor Organizations
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Created a second emergency board to investigate unresolved Metro-North commuter-rail labor disputes and choose between the parties’ final offers.
EO 12966
Foreign Disaster Assistance
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Directed the Defense Secretary to provide life-saving disaster assistance abroad under statutory safeguards and in coordination with the State Department and USAID.
EO 12965
Further Amendment to Executive Order No. 12852
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Extended the President’s Council on Sustainable Development through June 29, 1997 while leaving its advisory mission intact.
EO 12964
Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Created a temporary presidential commission to assess United States trade and investment policy toward the Asia-Pacific region and recommend ways to expand market access.
EO 12963
Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Created the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS to advise on prevention, research, treatment and services; the council continues under later amendments.
EO 12962
Recreational Fisheries
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Directed federal agencies to improve aquatic habitat and recreational fishing opportunities while preserving conservation and other legal duties.
EO 12961
Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Created an independent committee to review research, medical treatment and government coordination concerning Gulf War veterans’ illnesses.
EO 12960
Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, 1984
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Updated military rehearing sentence limits, witness-production rules, privilege and several punitive provisions in the 1984 Manual for Courts-Martial.
EO 12959
Eliminating all trade and investment and virtually all interaction between the United States and Iran
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Expanded the 1995 Iran emergency into a broad embargo on trade, investment, financing and facilitation by United States persons.
EO 12958
Prescribing a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Rebuilt the executive classification system with stricter classification standards, automatic declassification and public-interest review; a successor order now controls.
EO 12957
Banning U.S. investment in Iran's energy sector - see Iran and Libya Sanctions Act
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Declared the 1995 Iran national emergency and prohibited United States involvement in development of Iranian petroleum resources.
EO 12956
Israel-United States Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Designated the US-Israel BIRD Foundation as a public international organization entitled to statutory privileges, exemptions and immunities.
EO 12955
Nuclear Cooperation With EURATOM
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Extended legacy nuclear cooperation with EURATOM through the end of 1995 while a replacement agreement was completed.
EO 12954
Ensuring the Economical and Efficient Administration and Completion of Federal Government Contracts
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Sought to bar federal contracts with employers that permanently replaced lawful strikers; the courts held the procurement policy pre-empted by federal labor law.
EO 12953
Actions Required of All Executive Agencies to Facilitate Payment of Child Support
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Required federal agencies and uniformed services to support wage withholding, legal process, parent location and enforcement of child and medical support.
EO 12952
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12950
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Added the International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers to the unions covered by the Metro-North emergency board.
EO 12951
Release of Imagery Acquired by Space-Based National Intelligence Reconnaissance Systems
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Declassified early satellite reconnaissance imagery for public and scientific use and established review of other obsolete systems.
EO 12950
Establishing an Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between Metro North Commuter Railroad and Its Employees Represented by Certain Labor Organizations
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Created a three-member Railway Labor Act board to investigate Metro-North bargaining disputes and imposed a temporary status quo.
EO 12949
Foreign Intelligence Physical Searches
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Delegated presidential functions for approving and certifying foreign-intelligence physical searches under FISA.
EO 12948
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12898
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Extended the deadline for agencies to submit environmental-justice strategies from February to March 24, 1995.
EO 12947
Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Blocked property and prohibited transactions involving named foreign terrorists threatening the Middle East peace process; a later order consolidated the program.
EO 12946
President's Advisory Board on Arms Proliferation Policy
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Created a five-member bipartisan board to assess conventional-arms proliferation and recommend changes in United States transfer policy.
EO 12945
Amendment to Executive Order No. 12640
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Expanded the leadership of the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities from four to six vice chairs and modernized its wording.
EO 12944
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay and Allowances
Bill Clinton · 1993–2001
Set 1995 civilian, judicial, congressional, executive and uniformed-service pay and allowance schedules, replacing the 1993 and 1994 pay orders.