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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 04:49 PM Jan 2013

Regarding presidential executive orders, by the numbers


Obama: 143
George W. Bush: 291
Clinton: 363
Reagan: 380

ALL presidents here: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html

Executive orders are official documents, numbered consecutively...


p.s. The link above is a good one to keep handy to refute the right-wingers that always FALSELY say that Obama has issued more EOs than Bush and other presidents.

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Regarding presidential executive orders, by the numbers (Original Post) Tx4obama Jan 2013 OP
Per day CHART Tx4obama Jan 2013 #1
thank you very much! hopemountain Jan 2013 #2
So, if he averages the same amount in his second term as his first... Drunken Irishman Jan 2013 #3
 

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
3. So, if he averages the same amount in his second term as his first...
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 06:42 PM
Jan 2013

He'll still be behind the last three reelected presidents.

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