Report: Obama’s executive orders not necessarily law

Report: Obama’s executive orders not necessarily law: President Obama already had been liberal in his application of his “pen” and his “phone” in issuing orders to make changes he wants in the United States when he made that famous statement, “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone.”

He was calling for help for America’s struggling economy, which after more than five years of his leadership, still shows massive unemployment and huge deficits, and he was suggesting he could and would simply order changes where he feels they are needed.

But a new report from the Congressional Research Service on the very topic of executive orders notes that they are accepted generally as part of a president’s authority, but they are not in the Constitution, and there are limits.

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