Obama Will Reverse Bush Executive Orders

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Mr Podesta, who is heading the president-elect's transition team, said that the incoming administration was reviewing Bush's executive orders on stem cell research, oil and gas drilling, and other matters. "I'm not going to preview decisions that he has yet to make. But I would say that as a candidate, Senator Obama said that he wanted all the Bush executive orders reviewed, and decide which ones should be kept, and which ones should be repealed, and which ones should be amended. And that process is going on. It's been undertaken," said Mr Podesta, who was chief of staff under President Bill Clinton. "There's a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action," he added. He may lift a ban that prevents international family planning organisations that receive US government aid advising women about the possibility of abortion and in some cases discouraging common contraceptive methods.

Mr. Podesta is John Podesta of the Center for American Progress.

Another order being reviewed is the EPA's ruling on stricter emissions standards for California.

Pretty much every president does this, but expect special interests on the right to howl anyway.