Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the first speaker to be punished for ethics violations and a Trump ally, called for ethics laws to be loosened for Trump, and for the president-elect to issue preemptive pardons to appointees, so they won't be punished for breaking the law.
The state elected to stop issuing the Wyland license plate and the artist was summarily brushed aside.
If there's any delay, we urge President-elect Barack Obama to issue his own executive order restoring the Presidential Records Act as soon as he enters the White House.
A broad coalition of religious groups is calling on President-elect Barack Obama to issue an executive order on his first day in office banning the use of torture.
What they lacked was courageous political leadership — a powerful elected official willing to issue a proposal, willing to take a stand, willing to face the political perils.
Ryan, chairman of the House budget committee, personifies "courageous political leadership – a powerful elected official willing to issue a proposal, willing to take a stand, willing to face the political perils".
"I'm elected to deal with issues about parking and traffic and zoning, and I do that".
"This is downright disgraceful and if we cannot rely on elected members in parliament to issue accurate and truthful information then who can we rely on," she said.
But what if Kim Davis was not an elected official who refused to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples, but a private baker who refused to make wedding cakes for same-sex marriages?
On Friday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a newly elected Republican, was poised to issue layoff notices to 1,500 state workers, blaming a two-week stand-off over his bill to curb union collective bargaining rights.
But a strategic decision by the White House in 2009 to downplay climate change, and Obama's avoidance of the issue during the campaign, makes it tricky for the president to now claim that he was elected to act on the issue.
