Re Executive Orders, does anyone know for sure?

[alan]

The President, whomever that might be, can and sometimes does issue Executive Orders, that supposedly aid in the enforcement/operation of particular statutes passed by The Congress. At least that is the advertized purpose of said executive orders, which have the force of law.

Can a newly elected president simply expunge, delete or cancel existing executive orders, on his/her own authority, without input from The Congress, or does it take the proverbial "Act of Congress", to remove existing executive orders, which obviously are holdovers from a previous administration.

It strikes me that this question and the answer thereto could prove most interesting, given the composition of the present congress, the fact of a plethora of Executive Orders issued by President Clinton, including but not limited to "e.o.'s" that are firearms related, by the bye, Clinton is still president, and the positions of President-elect Bush.

"Does anyone know for sure"?

 

[jimpeel]

Yes. Presidents can, and do, overrule, negate, modify, etc EOs all of the time. One of the first orders issued by Clinton deleted the order of Bush that union workplaces must have prominently posted that union workers are under no obligation to pay that portion of their dues which are used to fund political positions to which they do not subscribe.

 

[Hal]

True, they do get rid of the old, but,,

A lot are just extensions of previous EO's, signed by previous Presidents to circumvent a partisan Congress. Given the present balance in Congress, and the prospect of facing a Democratic majority in the Senate in 2 years, I don't see W letting go of the "Big Stick" the EO's give him, and I'm not real sure I'm for it.<----A bit hypocritical on my part I agree, but sometimes you get in a situation where you have to be.
Honestly, I see a lot of "payback" coming out of W, over having his daddy beat by Clinton back in '92. Now, just casue I'm as happy as can be over a lot of it, doesn't mean it's right, just that I'm a hypocritical ole sinner and it's my turn to say payback's a b!tch ain't it.