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      "title": "The President's Reorganization Authority: Review and Analysis",
      "summary": "Among the initiatives being promoted with the beginning of the Administration of President\nGeorge\nW. Bush is that of renewing the President's lapsed authority to submit reorganization plans to\nCongress. The general rationale offered for renewing this authority is that it would provide\nadditional flexibility and discretion to the President in organizing the executive branch to promote\n\"economy and efficiency\" as well as his political priorities. The regular legislative route for\nconsidering presidential proposals involving organizational changes is deemed by reorganization\nauthority supporters as being unduly slow and cumbersome. Thus, the proposal to permit the\nPresident to submit reorganization plans subject to mandatory congressional consideration with \"fast\ntrack\" procedures is viewed by the reorganization proposal's proponents as a necessary reform for\ngood government. Critics of the reorganization plan authority reject the arguments and assumptions\nbehind the proposal and defend the efficacy and legitimacy of the regular legislative process for\nexecutive reorganization proposals.\n  This report addresses three specific issues: (1) the historical basis and use of the President's\nreorganization authority; (2) the factors contributing to the lapse of the President's reorganization\nauthority in 1984,  (1)  and (3) thoughts on the future of reorganization in the\nexecutive branch.\n     1.   It is worth noting that the Reorganization Act of 1977, as\namended, remains \"on the books,\" but is not\npresently operative for execution as it expired on December 31, 1984. See Appendix for\nReorganization Act\nAmendments of 1984, 98 Stat. 3192; and Appendix 2 for Executive Reorganization, chapter 9 of\nTitle 5 of\nthe U.S. Code.",
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