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Executive Orders Historical Archive
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Official portrait of George H. W. Bush
41st President
Republican Terms: 1989-1993

George H. W. Bush

Orders Tracked
166
Avg Words / Order
516
Avg Read Time
~3 min
Avg Sentiment
+0.18
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Youngstown Separation of Powers

1952 Standard

Distribution of orders across Justice Jackson's constitutional tiers:

68.7%
Zone 1 (114)
Statutory Authorization
27.1%
Zone 2 (45)
Zone of Twilight
4.2%
Zone 3 (7)
Lowest Ebb / Friction
Washington Rate Multiplier: 41.5× Washington Baseline

⚖️ Constitutional Alignment & Sentiment

Evaluated strictly through the U.S. Constitution (Articles I–VII) & Amendments from an Early Statesman's prism

166 Scored
101 (61%)
Constitutional Fidelity
Art. II §3 faithful statutory execution & civil liberty protection
58 (35%)
Constitutional Neutral
Routine departmental administration, civil service, executive seals
7 (4%)
Friction & Overreach
Art. I purse/commerce tension, 10th Amend federalism, property takings

Executive Orders Issued (166)showing the 30 most recent

EO 12833 Jan 19, 1993
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12833—Addition to Level V of the Executive Schedule: Transition Manager for the United States Enrichment Corporation

📜 Art. II §3: Faithful Execution of Statutory Law

-102 of Executive Order No. 12154, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding the following new subsection: "(g) Transition Manager, United States Enrichment Corporation." George Bush The White House, January 19, 1993

George Bush
College Level • 1m
EO 12832 Jan 19, 1993
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.41)

Executive Order 12832—Amendments Relating to the National Research Council

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

"1. The functions of the Council shall be as follows: "(a) To stimulate research in the mathematical, physical, biological, environmental, and social sciences, and in the application of these sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine, and other useful arts, with the object…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 5m
EO 12831 Revoked Jan 15, 1993
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 12831—Additional Measures with Respect to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

The following are prohibited, except to the extent provided in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses which may hereafter be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding the existence of any rights or obligations conferred or imposed by any international agreement…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 3m
EO 12830 Amended Jan 9, 1993
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12830—Establishing the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

There is hereby established a Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances, for award by the Secretary of Defense or, with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, the Secretary of Transportation.

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
EO 12829 Amended Jan 6, 1993
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.41)

Executive Order 12829—National Industrial Security Program

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

This order establishes a National Industrial Security Program to safeguard Federal Government classified information that is released to contractors, licensees, and grantees of the United States Government.

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 13m
EO 12828 Partially revoked Jan 5, 1993
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12828—Delegation of Certain Personnel Management Authorities

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

The Office of Personnel Management is designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President, the following: (1) The authority of the President under 5 U.S.C. 3502(e), as added by section 4433 of Public Law 102-484, to shorten…

George Bush
College Level • 1m
EO 12827 Dec 30, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12827—Amendment to Executive Order No. 12792

📜 Art. II §3: Faithful Execution of Statutory Law

Section 2(b) of Executive Orer No. 12792 is amended by deleting the date "December 31, 1992" and inserting in lieu thereof the date "January 20, 1993". George Bush The White House, December 30, 1992.

George Bush
College Level • 1m
EO 12826 Superseded Dec 30, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12826—Adjustment of Certain Rates of Pay and Allowances

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

The rates of basic pay or salaries of the statutory pay systems (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(1), as amended by section 2(25) of Public Law 102--378) are set forth on the schedules attached hereto and made a part hereof: (a) The General Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5332(a)) at Schedule 1…

George Bush
College Level • 4m
EO 12825 Dec 18, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12825—Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Thursday, December 24, 1992

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

All executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty for the last half of the scheduled workday on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1992, except as provided in section 2 below. Sec. 2.

George Bush
College Level • 1m
EO 12824 Amended Dec 7, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12824—Establishing the Transportation Distinguished Service Medal

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

There is hereby established a Transportation Distinguished Service Medal, with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances, for award by the Secretary of Transportation to a member of the Coast Guard who has provided exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
EO 12823 Revoked Dec 3, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12823—Amendments to Executive Order No. 12757—Implementation of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Amendment of Executive Order No. 12757. Executive Order No. 12757, "Implementation of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative," is amended as follows: (a) The Preamble is amended: (1) by striking "("Act")" and inserting instead "("ATDA Act")"; and (2) by striking "section…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 3m
EO 12822 Nov 16, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12822—Providing for Payment of Separate Maintenance Allowances to Employees Assigned to Johnston Island

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

Section 8 of Executive Order No. 11609 is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph (4) to read as follows: "(4) The authority of the President under to prescribe regulations governing the payment of allowances to employees assigned to duty at Johnston Island for the…

George Bush
College Level • 1m
EO 12821 Superseded Nov 16, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12821—Improving Mathematics and Science Education in Support of the National Education Goals

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Each executive department and agency (hereinafter referred to as "agency") that: (i) has a scientific mission; (ii) employs significant numbers of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers; or (iii) has a Federal laboratory; as determined by the Committee established by section…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 5m
EO 12820 Nov 5, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12820—Facilitating Federal Employees' Participation in Community Service Activities

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

Sectin 1. Charge to the Cabinet and Members of the Executive Branch Departments and Agencies. (a) The head of each Executive department and agency shall encourage agency employees to participate voluntarily in direct and consequential community service.

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
EO 12819 Oct 28, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12819—Establishing a Presidential Youth Award for Community Service

📜 Art. II §3: Faithful Execution of Statutory Law

The award shall recognize outstanding voluntary community service contributions made byfd individuals between the ages of 5 and 22. Section 2. The Director of the White House Office of National Service shall establish the criteria for the award.

George Bush
College Level • 1m
EO 12818 Oct 23, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.66)

Executive Order 12818—Open Bidding on Federal and Federally Funded Construction Projects

📜 5th Amend: Regulatory Execution with Due Process

Section I. (a) To the extent permitted by law, before any executive agency may award any construction contract after the effective date of this order, or obligate funds pursuant to such contract, it shall ensure that neither the agency's bid specifications, project agreements…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 5m
EO 12817 Revoked Oct 21, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 12817—Transfer of Certain Iraqi Government Assets Held by Domestic Banks

📜 Art. I §8: Delegated Tariff & Commerce Execution

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to take all actions necessary to carry out the provisions of United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 778 with respect to blocked funds and other assets described in section 2 of this order, or funds and other…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 4m
EO 12816 Revoked Oct 14, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.41)

Executive Order 12816—Management Improvement in the Federal Government

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

There is established as an interagency committee the President's Council on Management Improvement ("Council"). (b) The Council shall be composed of the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget, who shall serve as Chairman, and one senior official…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 4m
EO 12815 Sep 30, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12815—Extending the President's Commission on Management of the Agency for International Development (AID) Programs

📜 Art. II §3: Faithful Execution of Statutory Law

Section 4(b) of Executive Order No. 12813 of August 4, 1992, is amended by deleting "September 30, 1992" and inserting in lieu thereof "December 31, 1992." George Bush The White House, September 30, 1992.

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
EO 12814 Sep 10, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12814—Additions to Level IV of the Executive Schedule for Members of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

📜 Art. II §3: Faithful Execution of Statutory Law

-101 of Executive Order No. 12154, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding the following new subsection: (k) Members, Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (5). George Bush The White House, September 10, 1992.

George Bush
College Level • 1m
EO 12813 Aug 4, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.52)

Executive Order 12813—President's Commission on Management of the Agency for International Development (AID) Programs

📜 5th Amend: Regulatory Execution with Due Process

There is established the "President's Commission on Management of the Agency for International Development (AID) Programs" ("Commission"). The Commission shall comprise five members from the private sector appointed by the President.

George Bush
College Level • 2m
EO 12812 Jul 22, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12812—Declassification and Release of Materials Pertaining to Prisoners of War and Missing in Action

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

All executive departments and agencies shall expeditiously review all documents, files, and other materials pertaining to American POWs and MIAs lost in Southeast Asia for the purposes of declassification in accordance with the standards and procedures of Executive Order No.…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
EO 12810 Revoked Jun 5, 1992
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 12810—Blocking Property of and Prohibiting Transactions With the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Except to the extent provided in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses which may hereafter be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding the existence of any rights or obligations conferred or imposed by any international agreement or any contract entered into or…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 8m
EO 12809 Jun 3, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12809—Waiver Under the Trade Act of 1974 With Respect to Albania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan

📜 Art. II §3: Faithful Execution of Statutory Law

I hereby waive the application of sections 402(a) and 402(b) of the Act with respect to Albania, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. George Bush The White House, June 3, 1992.

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 1m
EO 12808 Revoked May 30, 1992
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 12808—Blocking "Yugoslav Government" Property and Property of the Governments of Serbia and Montenegro

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Except to the extent provided in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses which may hereafter be issued pursuant to this order, all property and interests in property of the Government of Serbia and the Government of Montenegro that are in the United States, that hereafter…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 4m
EO 12807 Amended May 24, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12807—Interdiction of Illegal Aliens

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

The entry or attempted entry of aliens into the United States, and to repatriate aliens interdicted beyond the territorial sea of the United States; (2) The international legal obligations of the United States under the United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees…

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 4m
EO 12806 May 19, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12806—Establishment of a Fetal Tissue Bank

📜 Art. II §3: Faithful Execution of Statutory Law

The Secretary of Health and Human Services ("Secretary") shall establish a human fetal tissue bank. The fetal tissue in the bank shall be obtained exclusively from ectopic pregnancies and spontaneous abortions. Sec. 2. Procedures.

George Bush
College Level • 1m
EO 12805 May 11, 1992
🏛️✅ Zone 1 (Maximum Authority) Fidelity (+0.23)

Executive Order 12805—Integrity and Efficiency in Federal Programs

📜 Art. II §3: Administrative Management & Civil Service

The establishment of two Councils of Federal Inspectors General and appropriate Federal officials is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment of the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency.

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 5m
EO 12804 May 1, 1992
⚖️✨ Zone 2 (Zone of Twilight) Constitutional Neutral

Executive Order 12804—Providing for the Restoration of Law and Order in the City and County of Los Angeles, and Other Districts of California

📜 Art. II §2: Commander-in-Chief Supervisory Authority

Units and members of the Armed Forces of the United States and Federal law enforcement officers will be used to suppress the violence described in the proclamation and to restore law and order in and about the City and County of Los Angeles, and other districts of California.

George Bush
Post-Graduate Legal • 2m
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