Obama Can Sieze All US Resources

Obama Signs Executive Order Allowing Control Over All US Resources

On March 16th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands upon a prior order issued in 1950 for Disaster Preparedness, and gives the office of the President complete control over all the resources in the United States in times of war or emergency.

The National Defense Resources Preparedness order gives the Executive Branch the power to control and allocate energy, production, transportation, food, and even water resources by decree under the auspices of national defense and national security. The order is not limited to wartime implementation, as one of the order’s functions includes the command and control of resources in peacetime determinations.

Section 101. Purpose. This order delegates authorities and addresses national defense resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (the “Act”).

(b) assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the most critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel; – White House

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Open Competition Bill Introduced in Senate

Senator David Vitter

As the Republican-led House continues to seek out wasteful Government spending and Regulations, the fight against union only project labor agreements (PLAs) has heated up again.

In the Senate, Senator David Vitter (R-La.) introduced the Government Neutrality in Contracting Act (S.119) on Jan. 25, 2011. These bills would prohibit the federal government from requiring PLAs on federal and federally-assisted projects. The legislation essentially codifies into law President Bush’s anti-PLA Executive Orders 13202 and 13208, which were repealed when President Obama’s pro-PLA Executive Order 13502 in February 2009.

Congressman John Sullivan

Congressman John Sullivan (R-Okla.) is expected to introduce the Government Neutrality in Contracting Act later this month.

The Obama Administration published, the Final Rule implementing his Executive Order 13502, encouraging and authorizing the use of union-only PLAs on federal construction projects.

Union-only PLAs restrict competition by requiring that a contract be awarded only to companies who agree to collective bargaining and union hiring. Union-only PLAs discriminates against upwards of 80% of the construction workforce nationwide by effectively banning them from the opportunity to work on federally-funded projects. To read the entire Rule, please Click Here. 

If Jobs are the priority the Democrats in the House and Senate they should be eager to pass this legislation that would even the playing field and Obama should be more than eager to sign it. We do not recomend anyone hold their breath waiting for that.   

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Who Needs Congress When You Can Legislate by Regulation?

Good legislative policy requires, as we have seen from its absence in the prior Congress, patience and compromise. A party with electoral control over both chambers of Congress and the presidency can probably pass a bill into law, but you rarely can get everything you want if the goal is to maximize a national consensus. 

Obama and his Democratic majority claim to have gotten much of their agenda through, but until the president was forced to engage in coalition building in the lame duck session, as a result of the November 2 “shellacking” taken by his party, most of the bills supported only by the far left are under attack by the new Congress and the courts.

Knowing that his free wheeling presidency has come to an end, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.” But constitutionalists ask, "what Executive Power to make law"?

The role of the President under the U.S. Constitution is not to make laws, but simply to execute the laws passed by Congress. Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution begins: “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” If the Constitution mandates that “all” law-making powers reside in the Congress, then it stands to reason none is left for the President. The President's job is that "he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed" under Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution.

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