Not backing down: Obama to issue another executive action

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Washington Times:

President Obama is following through with a threat to issue more executive actions, not fewer, one day after House Republicans moved forward with their lawsuit challenging the president’s unilateral policy-making.

 

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said on Thursday Obama would issue an executive order aimed at “cracking down on federal contractors who put workers’ safety and heard-earned pay at risk.”

 

Pfeiffer made the statement in an email sent to supporters blasting the GOP-led House for wasting valuable legislative time this week by holding the vote on the lawsuit, which passed the House 225-201, with only Republicans voting in favor.

 

“This is the least productive Congress in decades,” Pfeiffer said. “And instead of doing their job, they are suing the president for doing his.”

The executive order will force companies in the market for federal contracts of more than $500,000 to publicly disclose any labor-law violations over the last three years. The administration believes the new law will motivate companies to resolve conflicts with workers.

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