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First 100 Days: Day 19 - Legal Conference. Without blackjack nor hookers.
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And so it begins. What will be the first items accomplished? How good will they be or how much will they suck? Will bipartisanship actually occur or will logjams get broken by sheer force of will? When will Harry Reid buckle under and capitulate? And who will he capitulate to? What's going to happen in the Middle East? How many times will the talking heads talk about the historic nature of the first black President signing a bill into law, and the first black President vetoing a bill, and the first black President using a pocket veto, and the first black President having a ceremony on the south lawn, and the first black President to host a state dinner, and the first black President to raid the white house ice cream stash....
Let's do this thing.
Politifact: List of campaign promises and their status.
Wikipedia Article on the time line of the administration.
Accomplishments thus far:
Executive Orders-
Legislation Signed into Law-
Legislation Vetoed-
Regulations:
Let's do this thing.
Politifact: List of campaign promises and their status.
Wikipedia Article on the time line of the administration.
Accomplishments thus far:
Executive Orders-
- Requiring the closure of Guantanamo Detention Center within 1 year. [citation]
- Establishing the Army Field Manual as the standard for interrogation techniques for everyone. [citation]
- Closing the 'black sites' and putting a halt to extraordinary rendition, and ordinary rendition, of prisoners or detainees. [citation]
- Freezing the pay for all White House Staff earning a salary of over $100k. [citation]
- Banning gifts from lobbyists and preventing administration officials from working as lobbyists for two years after leaving the White House or until the Administration is ended. [citation]
- Ending the 'global gag rule' and permitting government funding to clinics that provide abortions. [citation]
- Favouring Union Labour in any large scale Federal construction work. [citation]
Legislation Signed into Law-
Legislation Vetoed-
- None.
Regulations:
- States allowed to set emission standards for vehicles. [citation]
- Compensation restrictions on TARP recipients: [citation]
No top executives will be paid more than $500,000 a year.
Any additional compensation must be paid in restricted stock options that do not vest "until taxpayers have been paid back.''
Restrictions on golden parachutes.
"Say on pay" shareholder policies "to give a voice to average investors about salary structures for top executives.''
Tougher "transparency rules,'' including on expenses such as aviation services, office renovations, entertainment and holiday parties, conferences and events.
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GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
Hey, those shoes cost the Republican party a bajillion dollars. They shouldn't be abused like that.
I admit that I'm not an expert on the matter, but I'm pretty sure that was the biggest part of it. I mean, the Southern States were called "Slave States" and all.
Now I am no law expert
But don't we already have like a billion of these laws already?
Is this really gonna do anything for women getting paid less than men or is it another one of those symbolic gesture things?
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Looking at this list makes me very happy, but also kind of emphasizes how absolutely fucking retarded the last eight years were that some of this wasn't passed until now.
It basically made any sort of institutionalized pay discrimination impossible to litigate against.
GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
C... can you put that into simpler terms?
No, we are not discussing this here.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
It's in response to the SCOTUS ruling on Ledbetter v Goodyear expanding the statute of limitations to your most recent paycheck rather than the first one you ever receive. Basically a response to the Roberts court punting it back to the Legislature rather than ruling with a more sane interpretation of the statute.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/images/winter_storm_signature.jpg
The Supreme Court interpreted the previous fair pay legislation to mean that unless you sued for the pay discrimination within 180 days of the first time you were paid less than your male counterparts, you couldn't sue to get back pay at all.
This legislation makes it explicitly clear that each subsequent paycheck that you're paid less starts the 180 day period where you can sue over again.
Dear god, you can see the outline of the greek key in the Resolute desk.
That was actually a really good article on effective communication. I think you might have stroked out and missed the point.
Now, each new paycheck where you make less because of your sex/race/etc is considered a new infraction, so it resets the statute of limitations. So if you find out you've been screwed for three years, you can still get the back pay you're owed.
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GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
I think the law will act more as a deterrant to companies to stop the unfair pay, not actually encourage more lawsuits like the opponents are saying.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Probably. I fully admit my bias against Politico is showing - it just seemed awfully weird to see this article headlining their main page with everything else going on, and I assumed they were subtly pushing the whole "Obamessiah" meme we all know and love.
Edit: nevermind, the quote I'm thinking of is "BEHOLD HIS MIGHTY HAND."
Damn that picture is amazing. My new background!
Greek Key?
Well I don't think it will encourage more lawsuits since precedence was exactly what this bill says until the Supreme Court decided to throw precedence completely out the window in 2007.
It's an ancient motif that symbolizes infinity. Most ornamented old buildings and furniture has it on it somewhere. The Resolute desk has it around the writing surface, and you get close enough in that resolution to see the indents.
Well it's not like people who found out that they were discriminated against in pay weren't going to sue in the first place because they've been working there for years. The only thing that will really lead to more lawsuits (after/if the wave that might come as a result of this bill) would be more discriminatory pay that people can sue over.
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Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Win/win.
GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
Exactly. Which is why the opponents (read: GOP) fail at simple logic.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Because if it is, it strikes me as a wonderfully powerful shot; having him overlooking a meeting involving the first black president.
It is. There's a painting of Washington over the fireplace. Which is basically true for all Presidencies, though the particular painting of each may change.
I'm not familiar with the process of selecting that sort of thing, or if there are specific portraits that always hang in specific places.
GT: batshido Hit me up on ME3.
In the Oval Office it's up to the individual President, though Obama hasn't chosen new ones yet and Bush picked Washington and Lincoln. Presumably Lincoln would be staying put anyway. Otherwise some are (I think) permanently in certain rooms. Like the Roosevelt Room I think always had both Roosevelts and TR's Nobel Peace Prize.
Anyone know what else is being worked on right now?
Edit for Hakkekage: I think it is going to be debated next week.
House passed it. Now it's going to the Senate, where changes will no doubt be made, kicked back to the House, etc. It'll be a few weks at the earliest before the package will actually be passed.
We'll have to see if Senate Republicans are as loyal as House Republicans because it's 59 to 41...