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Executive orders directing the Attorney General · 43 in Clinton · 500 all terms.
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Federal Interagency Task Force on the District of Columbia
This executive order formally establishes the Federal Interagency Task Force on the District of Columbia, chaired by the OMB Director and composed of 18 cabinet-level and agency heads, to coordinate federal assistance for D.C.'s financial stability, economic growth, and self-governance. It continues and institutionalizes interagency work begun in 1995 to support the nation's capital through improved federal-local coordination.
Establishment of the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status
This executive order creates a presidential task force to study Puerto Rico's political status options and facilitate a self-determination process for Puerto Ricans. It mandates the task force to report to the President by May 1, 2001, and annually thereafter on progress toward resolving Puerto Rico's ultimate political status.
To Protect the Privacy of Protected Health Information in Oversight Investigations
This executive order restricts law enforcement from using protected health information discovered during health oversight investigations for unrelated civil, administrative, or criminal matters, unless the Deputy Attorney General (or DoD General Counsel for military personnel) authorizes it after determining that public interest clearly outweighs potential harm to patients. It also requires annual reporting to the President on such uses.
Providing Compensation to America's Nuclear Weapons Workers
This executive order implements the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 by assigning specific responsibilities to the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Energy to administer compensation for nuclear weapons workers who developed illnesses from exposure to beryllium, radiation, and other hazards. It establishes deadlines for regulations, claim forms, facility lists, and creates an Interagency Working Group and Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health to oversee implementation.
Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the Central San Joaquin Valley
This executive order establishes an interagency task force to coordinate federal economic development efforts for California's Central San Joaquin Valley, requiring annual reports for five years and focusing on sustainable growth in seven designated counties. The task force includes 16 agency heads or their designees with a rotating chair among Agriculture, HUD, and Commerce.
Improving Access to Services for Persons With Limited English Proficiency
This executive order requires all federal agencies to develop plans ensuring that people with limited English proficiency (LEP) can meaningfully access federally conducted and federally assisted programs and activities. It mandates agency-specific guidance, stakeholder consultation, and Department of Justice oversight to prevent national origin discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Establishment of the Presidential Medal of Valor for Public Safety Officers
This executive order establishes the Presidential Medal of Valor for Public Safety Officers, an annual award recognizing up to ten law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency responders who demonstrate extraordinary valor. The Attorney General recommends candidates by April 1 each year, with presentations timed to coincide with Police Week in May.
Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs
This executive order prohibits discrimination based on race, sex, color, national origin, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, and parental status in all federally conducted education and training programs. It requires executive agencies to establish complaint procedures, mandates Attorney General-issued implementing regulations, and establishes annual then triennial reporting requirements on complaints and their disposition.
Delegation of Authority To Conduct Assessments and Promulgate Regulations on Public Access to Off-Site Consequence Analysis Information
This memorandum delegates presidential authority under the Clean Air Act to three officials: the Attorney General will assess terrorism risks from posting off-site consequence analysis data online; the EPA Administrator will assess whether public disclosure of such data incentivizes accident risk reduction; and both will jointly issue regulations governing distribution of this information, subject to OMB review. The EPA Administrator must publish the memorandum in the Federal Register.
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
This executive order extends 16 federal advisory committees until September 30, 2001, revokes several executive orders for completed committees, and makes technical amendments to existing orders including adding the Department of Energy to the President's Export Council, expanding an interagency Coast Guard task force, and updating the structure of committees on arts/humanities and physical fitness.
Delegation of Authority Under Sections 212(f) and 215(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
President Clinton delegated to the Attorney General the authority to maintain custody and conduct screening of undocumented persons intercepted on the high seas through December 31, 2000, with ratification of actions taken since April 16, 1999. The delegation explicitly excludes any enforceable rights or refugee determination procedures.
Working Group on Unlawful Conduct on the Internet
This executive order establishes an interagency working group chaired by the Attorney General to study and report on unlawful conduct involving the Internet, including illegal sales of guns, drugs, and child pornography. The group must deliver recommendations within 120 days on whether existing federal laws are sufficient, what new tools or authorities may be needed, and how to empower parents and educators to mitigate risks.
Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With the Taliban
This executive order declares a national emergency and blocks all property of the Taliban and its supporters, prohibits U.S. persons from transacting with them, and bans trade with Taliban-controlled Afghan territory. It includes a humanitarian exception for agricultural commodities, medicine, and medical equipment under safeguards.
Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act
This executive order establishes the Department of State as the U.S. National Authority for implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention and its 1998 implementing statute. It assigns interagency coordination, regulatory, inspection, enforcement, and information-disclosure responsibilities across State, Defense, Commerce, Energy, Justice, and other agencies.
Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor
This executive order prohibits U.S. executive agencies from acquiring products made with forced or indentured child labor. It requires the Department of Labor to publish a list of suspect products by country of origin, mandates procurement regulations with contractor certification requirements, and establishes remedies including contract termination and debarment for violators.
Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the Southwest Border
This executive order establishes an interagency task force co-chaired by Treasury, Agriculture, and Labor to coordinate federal economic development efforts for the Southwest Border region (within 150 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and California). The task force reports to the Vice President and is charged with analyzing programs, developing recommendations, and focusing on pilot communities, with mandatory reports through 2002.
Delegation of Authority Under Sections 212(f) and 215(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
This memorandum delegates presidential authority under immigration law to the Attorney General to detain and screen undocumented persons intercepted on the high seas near the Northern Mariana Islands in 1999, specifically referencing a stateless vessel discovered around April 12, 1999. The delegation grants broad, unreviewable discretion to the Attorney General over custody location and screening procedures, while explicitly disclaiming any legally enforceable rights for affected individuals.
Using Technology To Improve Training Opportunities for Federal Government Employees
This executive order establishes a presidential task force and advisory committee to promote technology-based training for federal employees. It directs agencies to designate representatives, develop training technology standards, create online training databases, and explore individual training accounts for workers.
Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group
This executive order establishes an interagency working group led by the Archivist of the United States to locate, inventory, and declassify Nazi war criminal records for public release at the National Archives, with a report to Congress due within one year and the group terminating after three years.
Implementation of Human Rights Treaties
This executive order establishes a framework for the U.S. government to implement its obligations under international human rights treaties including the ICCPR, Convention Against Torture, and CERD. It creates an Interagency Working Group chaired by the National Security Council designee to coordinate treaty compliance, report preparation, complaint responses, and annual reviews of reservations and practices across all executive agencies.
American Indian and Alaska Native Education
This executive order establishes an Interagency Task Force on American Indian and Alaska Native Education to coordinate federal efforts across 14+ agencies to improve educational outcomes for Native students. It mandates development of a comprehensive federal Indian education policy, regional partnership forums, school pilot sites, and a research agenda, with multiple reporting deadlines over a 5-year task force lifespan.
Coral Reef Protection
This executive order establishes a federal policy to protect U.S. coral reef ecosystems by requiring agencies to identify actions affecting reefs and avoid degrading them. It creates the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force co-chaired by Interior and Commerce to coordinate mapping, monitoring, research, conservation, and international cooperation efforts.
1998 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
This executive order updates the Manual for Courts-Martial with detailed procedural rules governing military justice, including pretrial confinement review timelines (24-hour, 48-hour, 72-hour, and 7-day requirements), competency to stand trial procedures, post-trial deferment and waiver of forfeitures for dependent support, and structured processes for vacating suspended sentences.
Establishment of the Enrichment Oversight Committee
This executive order establishes the Enrichment Oversight Committee (EOC) to monitor and coordinate U.S. government efforts related to the privatized United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC). The EOC oversees implementation of the U.S.-Russia Highly Enriched Uranium Agreement, monitors foreign ownership restrictions, collects intelligence and proprietary business information, and coordinates with multiple agencies including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Increasing Employment of Adults With Disabilities
This executive order establishes a National Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities, chaired by the Secretary of Labor, to develop coordinated federal policy recommendations for increasing employment rates of adults with disabilities. It mandates multiple agency reports and reviews due by November 15, 1998, with subsequent Task Force reports through 2002.
White House Millennium Council
This executive order establishes the White House Millennium Council, a coordinating body of federal agency representatives to lead national and local educational celebrations commemorating the year 2000 millennium. The Council is tasked with planning events, producing educational materials, encouraging community participation, and making recommendations for historic preservation funding through the Save America's Treasures program.
Federal Support of Community Efforts Along American Heritage Rivers
This executive order establishes the American Heritage Rivers initiative, a voluntary, community-driven program where communities nominate rivers for federal designation and support. It creates an interagency committee to coordinate federal assistance for environmental protection, economic revitalization, and historic preservation along designated rivers, without creating new regulatory authority.
Coordination of United States Government International Exchanges and Training Programs
This executive order establishes an Interagency Working Group within the United States Information Agency to improve coordination of federal international exchange and training programs. The group is tasked with data collection, eliminating duplication, developing a coordinated strategy, and creating performance measures across agencies including State, Defense, Education, Justice, and USAID.
President's Advisory Board on Race
This executive order establishes a 7-member President's Advisory Board on Race to advise the President on racial reconciliation, national dialogue on race, and solutions to race-related problems in areas including education, economic opportunity, housing, health care, and criminal justice. The board is administratively supported by the Department of Justice and is set to terminate on September 30, 1998 unless extended by the President.
Protection of Children From Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks
This executive order directs federal agencies to prioritize identifying and assessing environmental health and safety risks that disproportionately affect children. It establishes an interagency Task Force co-chaired by HHS and EPA, mandates regulatory impact analyses for children's health in significant rulemakings, and creates an annual reporting mechanism on child well-being indicators.
Increasing Seat Belt Use in the United States
This executive order mandates that federal employees wear seat belts during official travel and requires seat belt use in national parks and on Defense Department installations. It also encourages tribal governments and federal contractors to adopt seat belt policies, directs agencies to conduct education programs, and requires the Secretary of Transportation to submit annual reports on compliance and crash statistics.
Delegation of Responsibilities Concerning FBI Employees Under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
President Clinton delegated presidential authority over FBI employee whistleblower protections to the Attorney General under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, requiring annual reports on reprisal allegations and prohibiting redelegation to the FBI itself.
Strengthened Protections for Human Subjects of Classified Research
This 1997 presidential memorandum strengthens ethical protections for human subjects in classified government research by implementing recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. It prohibits waiver of informed consent for classified research, requires disclosure of sponsoring agencies and classification status to subjects, mandates special institutional review board procedures including nongovernmental members and appeals processes, requires annual public disclosure of secret research projects, and bars agencies from conducting such research without first adopting modified Common Rule regulations.
Immigration Emergency Resulting From Alien Smuggling
President Clinton determined that the 1995 immigration emergency regarding alien smuggling persisted, and directed up to $7.4 million from the Immigration Emergency Fund be used for repatriation of intercepted foreign nationals. The Attorney General was instructed to notify Congress and publish the determination in the Federal Register.
Administration of Export Controls on Encryption Products
This executive order establishes special export control rules for encryption products being transferred from State Department munitions oversight to Commerce Department dual-use regulations. It exempts encryption controls from normal foreign-availability review requirements, gives multiple agencies including Justice veto authority over encryption export licenses, excludes encryption software from being treated as 'technology,' and mandates that technical assistance exports be controlled as strictly as under arms export laws.
Administration of the Midway Islands
This executive order transfers administration of the Midway Islands from the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Interior, dissolves the naval defensive sea area and airspace reservation, and establishes the islands as the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Pending legal cases remain with the Navy while new civil and criminal matters become Interior's responsibility.
Supporting Families: Collecting Delinquent Child Support Obligations
This executive order directs federal agencies to use administrative offsets—deducting from federal payments—to collect past-due child support obligations. It also requires agencies to deny certain federal financial assistance (loans, guarantees, insurance) to individuals delinquent on child support, with due-process protections established by the Attorney General.
Drawdown of Commodities and Services from the Departments of State, the Treasury, Defense and Justice for Presidential Security Support to the Government of Haiti
President Clinton authorized a drawdown of up to $3 million in commodities and services from four federal departments to provide security training and augmentation for Haiti's presidential security forces, citing an unforeseen emergency under the Foreign Assistance Act. The determination directs the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, and the Attorney General to make these resources available.
Critical Infrastructure Protection
This executive order establishes the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection to study vulnerabilities in systems like telecommunications, power, banking, and emergency services, and creates an interim Infrastructure Protection Task Force within the FBI to coordinate threat response until the Commission completes its work. It mandates public-private collaboration to assess physical and cyber threats and develop a national protection strategy.
Strengthening Drug Control Cooperation with Mexico
This 1996 presidential memorandum directs 13 specific measures to strengthen U.S.-Mexico cooperation against drug trafficking, including developing a binational drug control strategy, reviewing Southwest border counter-drug programs, controlling precursor chemicals, combating money laundering, improving law enforcement coordination, and employing high technology for eradication. It establishes reporting deadlines to the U.S.-Mexico High Level Contact Group and the President's Council on Counter-Narcotics.
Continuing the President's Committee on Mental Retardation and Broadening Its Membership and Responsibilities
This executive order continues the President's Committee on Mental Retardation with expanded membership and responsibilities. It adds federal agency heads to the committee, sets national goals for reducing mental retardation and promoting community participation, and requires annual reports to the President through the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
President's Council on Counter-Narcotics
This executive order establishes the President's Council on Counter-Narcotics, a high-level interagency body chaired by the President and comprising cabinet secretaries, intelligence directors, and senior White House officials. The Council meets quarterly to advise the President on national drug control strategy, coordinate implementation across agencies, and link drug policy to national security priorities, while preserving the Director of National Drug Control Policy as the senior drug policy official.
Drawdown of Commodities and Services from the Departments of Defense, the Treasury, Transportation, and Justice and Drawdown of Defense Articles, Defense Services, and Training from the Department of Defense for Israel
President Clinton authorized an emergency drawdown of up to $12 million in commodities and services from four federal departments and up to $10 million in defense articles, services, and training from DOD to Israel for detecting and disarming explosive devices, responding to four suicide bombings that threatened the Middle East peace process.