"With a Do-Nothing Congress, It’s Time for Executive Action"

With a Do-Nothing Congress, It’s Time for Executive Action

By ANDREW ROSENTHAL at the NY Times

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/with-a-do-nothing-congress-its-time-for-executive-action/?_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=opinion&_r=0

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Some are a bit airy — writing reports and convening commissions — but several are concrete. Mr. Obama should pay attention.

In the area of voting:

• Instruct federal agencies — like the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Indian Health Service and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services — to encourage the many millions of Americans they work with each year to vote and help them register, as motor vehicle bureaus do in some states.

• Order federal contractors to disclose their political spending. The Brennan Center said the administration drafted an executive order like that in 2011 but dropped it after encountering opposition from Congress (surprise!).

• Ask the Securities and Exchange Commission to require that corporations disclose their political spending (something Congress would never do).

• Ask the Federal Elections Commission to bolster requirements for disclosing outside spending on political ads.




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