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Executive Order 13313: Delegation of Certain Congressional Reporting Functions

President: George W. Bush

Assigned specified recurring reports to Congress to Cabinet secretaries and other officials.

Status: In effect. Is Executive Order 13313 still in effect? Yes. Executive Order 13313 remains in effect. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13313 do?

State, Treasury, Defense and other officials were assigned the particular reports listed in the order; underlying reporting laws continued to govern their contents and timing. The April 2013 Congressional Record logs Treasury six-month reports on the Iraq and Burma emergencies as transmitted pursuant to EO 13313. This shows use of the reporting delegation for those reports.

Administration position: The order assigns submission of enumerated recurring reports to named senior officials under the President’s delegation authority.
SignedJuly 31, 2003
Prior frameworkThe statutes and prior emergency declarations called for recurring presidential submissions across foreign affairs and national emergencies.
Responsible officialState, Treasury and other named officers
Later primary evidenceApril 30, 2013: The April 2013 Congressional Record logs Treasury six-month reports on the Iraq and Burma emergencies as transmitted pursuant to EO 13313. This shows use of the reporting delegation for those reports.

Before and after

Before the order

The statutes and prior emergency declarations called for recurring presidential submissions across foreign affairs and national emergencies.

After the order

State, Treasury, Defense and other officials were assigned the particular reports listed in the order; underlying reporting laws continued to govern their contents and timing.

The April 2013 Congressional Record logs Treasury six-month reports on the Iraq and Burma emergencies as transmitted pursuant to EO 13313. This shows use of the reporting delegation for those reports.

What changed?

The statutes and prior emergency declarations called for recurring presidential submissions across foreign affairs and national emergencies. State, Treasury, Defense and other officials were assigned the particular reports listed in the order; underlying reporting laws continued to govern their contents and timing.

What does later evidence show?

Congressional Record — executive communications documents the later development: The April 2013 Congressional Record logs Treasury six-month reports on the Iraq and Burma emergencies as transmitted pursuant to EO 13313. This shows use of the reporting delegation for those reports. The delegation does not determine the findings within a report.

What are the limits?

The authority cited is 3 U.S.C. 301. EO 13313 assigns the act of submitting enumerated reports; it does not abolish congressional reporting duties or transfer every presidential power to those agencies. Read the signed order for its operative language.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
State, Treasury and other named officersSubmitted the enumerated reports to CongressAs limited by the signed order

What happened next

EO 13313 signed.

The April 2013 Congressional Record logs Treasury six-month reports on the Iraq and Burma emergencies as transmitted pursuant to EO 13313. This shows use of the reporting delegation for those reports.

Signed text and later primary evidence reviewed.