Joe Scarborough: “President Clinton signed Executive Order 13083 on May 14, while out of the country, and we believe it is a serious…”

“President Clinton signed Executive Order 13083 on May 14, while out of the country, and we believe it is a serious affront to the Federalist framework established in the United States Constitution. It could potentially lead to the abuse of power by individual agencies as they attempt to interpret this Executive Order. The order establishes broad, ambiguous, and we believe unconstitutional tests to justify Washington bureaucratic intervention in matters that are typically left to State and local communities. Neither the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, nor the Federalist Papers even remotely justify Executive Order 13083 or its expansion of Federal regulatory activity. Back in 1987, President Ronald Reagan signed an Executive Order which this Executive Order reverses. In the Reagan Executive Order it stated, "The constitutional relationship among sovereign governments, State and national, is formalized in and protected by the tenth amendment to the Constitution." President Reagan also said, "It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or upon the People."”