Report: Obama to bypass Congress on gay rights, environment
As Congress remains embroiled in weighty negotiations over government spending, immigration reform and gun control, President Obama is considering acting on his own on a host of other major issues.
The president may take executive actions to increase cybersecurity in the private sector, increase gay rights, assist struggling homeowners and boost environmental regulations , according to the Washington Post.
Mr. Obama has used already executive actions to bypass Congress on issues like immigration -- allowing certain undocumented youth to stay in the country legally -- as well as gun violence and student loans. The president has faced some blowback from these moves and has acknowledged that reforms based in legislation are preferred to executive action. He's argued, however, that he can't wait for Congress to act on everything.
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As early as this week, according to the Post, Mr. Obama is expected to sign an executive order applying new cybersecurity standards to industries regulated by the executive branch, such as transportation. The executive order would also increase the level of data that the government shares with these companies relating to cyber threats.
The president is also reportedly considering building on a previous executive order he signed to help struggling homeowners, with loans backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, to refinance. His new actions would extend the refinancing relief to struggling homeowners with privately backed mortgages.
Mr. Obama may also sign an executive order banning workplace discrimination of gay, lesbian and transgender federal contractors, an action that gay rights activists have called on the president to take in the face of congressional inaction.
Finally, Mr. Obama may issue new rules regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants -- a move that would go beyond the rules the Environmental Protection Agency will issue this spring regulating new power plants.
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http://www.thailawforum.com/blog/obama-signs-unconstitutional-exec-order-on-cyber-security
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The 112th Congress was the most dysfunctional ever, and the same clowns are running the 113th Congress.
112th passed approximately 220 bills, even less than the 104th (can you spell Newt Gingrich?), and the least in recorded history. The vast majority of the 220 bills were merely ceremonial and of no substance.
They failed to pass a farm bill. They failed to act on judicial appointments. They failed to approve disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy victims. Failed to act on immigration. Failed to act on energy. Failed to act on climate change. They almost shut down the government. They almost breached the debt ceiling. They achieved virtually nothing on housing, stimulus, tax reform, or infrastructure. And on and on.
For two years of the 112th, and continuing into the 113th, Congress has ignored virtually every pressing matter to engage in an ideological war over budgets and government instead of getting anything done.
The 112th Congress, and continuing into the 113th, Congress has accomplished only one thing: to be known as the most worthless, incompetent, do-nothing gathering of lawmakers in the nation's history.
On sheer productivity grounds, this Congress beat out the Do-Nothing Congress of 1948.
Then the clowns decided to suspend the previously agreed-to spending cuts contained in another bill for two months.
The 112th Congress, with the same clowns running things in the 113th Congress, was the least effective and most disliked legislative body in a century.
You are a representative of the people, so if you stand on a side the people don't like, the people say something.. If you really represent them you change to be what they want you to be.
Am I wrong?
Where in my post does it point to a specific party?
Troll.
Bypassing congress is what is different about BO's actions. Bush signed in a law that congress passed. It could still be over turned if challenged.
BO doesn't see the need to even pass a law. That is called being a dictator.
It's not called being a "dictator"; it's called being a US President.
BTW, if Congress objects to an Executive Order, they can always pass a law to supercede or countermand it. And just because YOU call something "unconstitional" doesn't make it so; the Supreme Court already ruled that Obamacare IS Constitional.
The only Executive action that's really bothered me over the years was Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon.
Where did you get that number at?
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One step at a time.
That's just what we need is more inequality and more special rights.
Apparently that's what YOU want. I don't see how gays are advocating inequality or getting "special rights". Quite the opposite.
In other words EVERY GAY person will have a big stick step up just by showing up and if they don't get the attention "they" think they deserve out comes the big stick...just like the kid a few days ago who thought he didn't get enough hugs from some actor in a rabbit suit.