Hillary Clinton Talks Tough on Executive Action

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Hillary Clinton Talks Tough on Executive Action

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-vows-to-battle-corporate-inversions-1449683153




Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in October. Mrs. Clinton is promising to use executive authority, if needed, to act against corporate maneuvers that shift profits out of the U.S. Photo: Mark Almond/Associated Press


By Laura Meckler And Richard Rubin

Updated Dec. 9, 2015 7:52 p.m. ET


On Wednesday, the Democratic front-runner pitched ideas to crack down on corporate inversions, maneuvers that shift companies’ legal addresses outside of the U.S. to lower tax bills. If Congress won’t help shut them down, she said, she would use regulations to stop companies from gaming the system.

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It was the third major policy area where she vowed executive action, all but anticipating that Congress,.........................

She has promised to expand President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration, shielding more people in the U.S. from deportation, even as the existing policy is being challenged in the courts.

Mrs. Clinton also has said she would try to rewrite firearms regulations so more sellers are required to conduct background checks on potential gun buyers. There is scant support for new gun restrictions among Republicans.


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...............Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said that doesn’t mean she wouldn’t use powers that come with the Oval Office. “Her first preference will always be to seek to work with Congress,” he said. “But where progress has stalled and there is clear legal authority for the president to act, she will not hesitate to do so.”

Former Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer, who helped craft Mr. Obama’s strategy on executive action, said Mrs. Clinton is taking the right approach. “At a time of massive congressional gridlock, it’s incumbent on candidates to make it clear how they would achieve their agenda, and a legislative-only approach would not be seen as credible to the voters or the press covering the campaign,” he said...................

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1. So now Hillary supporters think executive action is just great...

And yet I recall a thread last week where someone was bringing up the possibility of executive action by Bernie and you would have thought someone suggested to them he was considering the possibility of personally burning the Constitution. Is there anything you guys are consistent about?

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2. It was not me. And please so do not use the all inclusive "Hillary supporters". used wisely and

within the constitution, Executive action is fine.