executive powers of the president

• Can the President Go Too Far?; Bush Is Expanding Executive Powers in the Name of Anti-Terrorism

WASHINGTON - A secret CIA-Treasury program to track financial records of millions of Americans is the latest installment in an expansion of executive authority in the name of fighting terrorism. The administration doesn't apologize for President Bush's aggressive take on presidential powers. Vice President Dick Cheney even boasts about it. Bush has made broad use of his powers, authorizing warrantless wiretaps, possibly collecting telephone records on millions of Americans, holding suspected terrorists overseas without legal protections and using up to 6,000 National Guard members to help patrol the border with Mexico.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• June 24, 2006

• 36 CFR 901.4 - Officers.

... of the Corporation shall consist of a President, an Executive Director, two Assistant Directors, a...(b)(1) Powers and duties of the President. The Chairman of the B...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 36: Parks, Forests, and Public Property

• Organizational Complexity and Coordination Dilemmas in U.S. Executive Politics

Modern scholarship on the institutional presidency has emphasized the formal mechanisms that presidents employ to obtain bureaucratic compliance. This literature emphasizes presidents' effective use of both expressed and implied constitutional powers. Unfortunately, little systematic inquiry has analyzed how extraconstitutional features of the executive branch limit the president's capacity for effective control over administrative agencies. This essay highlights three problems of organizational complexity relating to presidential control over the bureaucracy that merit greater attention from scholars of U.S. executive politics: (1) vertical coordination, (2) horizontal coordination, and (3) credible commitment. The author sketches out elements of a research agenda that examines preside...

• Presidential Studies Quarterly
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 1, March 2009

• Section 1: The President

Clause 1. Powers and Term of the President . Clause 1. The executi... days, there was no assurance that the executive department would not be headed by plural administr...

• Constitution of the United States (Annotated)

• Presidents Can't Circumvent Congress

Just where in the U.S. Constitution does President Obama, who used to teach constitutional law, find any provision that allows him to do an end run around Congress and establish a new housing bailout program on the strength of his executive powers ("Obama offers mortgage relief to Americans," Web, Oct. 24)? Once again, one must wonder what concept the president has of executive powers. Or is it just that he fancies himself a politician empowered to take any action at all if he thinks it's a good idea?

• The Washington Times
• November 03, 2011

• Letters to the Editor

Fight the real terrorists To the editor -- Ric Cole wrote (Aug. 2 Letters, "Use Executive Powers") that we need to recognize how the current war against Islamic terrorists is our most serious threat the nation has faced. He goes on to discuss the leaking of information, and President Bush's use of his executive powers.

• Yakima Herald-Republic
• August 14, 2006

• Run Sun 08/09/06 Bush/Iraq Gladman Letter, Krt

Fight the real terrorists To the editor -- Ric Cole wrote (Aug. 2 Letters, "Use Executive Powers") that we need to recognize how the current war against Islamic terrorists is our most serious threat the nation has faced. He goes on to discuss the leaking of information, and President Bush's use of his executive powers.

• Yakima Herald-Republic
• August 16, 2006

• The President's Last Stand

Bruce Fein, a conservative constitutional lawyer who served in the Reagan Justice Department, was at that meeting, and said during an August 15 Bill of Rights Defense Committee conference call: "The president claims he doesn't have to obey any law under the Constitution's Article II powers," an article that begins with the words, "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

• Village Voice, The
• August 21, 2009

• Sommet's Manager Backs Off Plan -- Proposed Financial Data Be Kept Private

NASHVILLE - The manager of Nashville's Sommet Center has backed off a plan to exclude from public view certain financial information about events held at the city-owned arena. A letter obtained by The Tennessean shows Hugh Lombardi, executive vice president of Powers Management, wanted to set up a committee to discuss the information in private.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• December 09, 2008

• Obama the Philosopher King ; the O Force Uses Executive Power to Get Around That Pesky Congress

President Obama is readying to unleash a variety of executive powers to circumvent Congress and push his agenda. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said that a review of mechanisms was under way to "get the job done across a front of issues." The president claims he has to resort to extraordinary methods because of partisan gridlock, but he has learned the wrong lessons from his failed freshman year in office. Mr. Obama's initiatives haven't stalled because of partisanship but because they are transparently bad for America. It's odd that the president and his apologists blame partisanship for his legislative problems. Mr. Obama came into office with a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate majority, the largest since the Jimmy Carter era, and the most Democratic House members since the...

• The Washington Times
• February 22, 2010