The board that approves school space plans will meet twice this month, an unusual step.
It has to be the home regulator that approves the prospectus.
He called the FISA court "a rubber-stamp authority that approves 99.97% of government requests".
The judiciary would be an independent branch; the king has headed the council that approves all judges.
The State Department is the agency that approves transboundary pipelines by determining whether they are in the national interest.
Among the proposals it should consider is some form of judicial review, like the special court that approves wiretaps for intelligence gathering, before it kills American citizens.
He also said he supported a proposal to change the procedures of the secret court that approves electronic spying under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Ms. Feinstein last month suggested setting up a new court, modeled after the one that approves intelligence-gathering wiretaps, for targeted killings.
More substantially, Mr Obama said he would like to change the proceedings of the secret court that approves electronic spying and interprets counterterrorism laws.
He would keep mayoral control of the New York City school system, but relinquish control of the board that approves educational policy.
The congress is a talking shop that approves measures already worked out by the government, and not a parliament in the democratic sense.
