Examples of executive agreement in the following topics:
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- Along with naming judges, presidents appoint ambassadors and executive officers.
- Although not constitutionally provided, presidents also sometimes employ "executive agreements" in foreign relations.
- These agreements frequently regard administrative policy choices germane to executive power; for example, the extent to which either country presents an armed presence in a given area, how each country will enforce copyright treaties, or how each country will process foreign mail.
- However, the 20th century witnessed a vast expansion of the use of executive agreements, and critics have challenged the extent of that use as supplanting the treaty process and removing constitutionally prescribed checks and balances over the executive in foreign relations.
- Supporters counter that the agreements offer a pragmatic solution when the need for swift, secret, and/or concerted action arises.
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- Throughout U.S. history, the President has also made international "agreements" through congressional-executive agreements (CEAs) that are ratified with only a majority from both houses of Congress, or sole-executive agreements made by the President alone.
- The Supreme Court of the United States has considered congressional-executive and sole-executive agreements to be valid, and they have been common throughout American history.
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- Congress is in charge of ratifying treaties signed by the President and gives advice and consent to presidential appointments to the federal, judiciary, and executive departments.
- The executive branch (President) is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
- He executes the instructions of Congress, may veto bills passed by Congress, and executes the spending authorized by Congress.
- The president declares states of emergency, publishes regulations and executive orders, makes executive agreements, and signs treaties (ratification of these treaties requires the vote of two-thirds of the Senate).
- He makes appointments to the federal judiciary, executive departments, and other posts with the advice and consent of the Senate, and has power to make temporary appointments during the recess of the Senate.
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- The agreement allowed limited Palestinian self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- The 1993 and 1995 peace agreements between Israel and Palestine, however, did not end the conflict in the Middle East.
- The two leaders signed yet another agreement, known as the Wye River Memorandum, which called for Israel to transfer more territory in the West Bank to the Palestinians.
- In 1991, following the Persian Gulf War, the warring parties signed a cease-fire agreement and the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 687 requiring Iraq to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction and allow inspectors from UNSCOM to monitor the country's adherence to the agreement.
- On May 6, 1995, Clinton signed Executive Order 12957 which implemented tight oil and trade sanctions on Iran, and made it illegal for American corporations or their foreign subsidiaries to participate in any contract "for the financing of the development of petroleum resources located in Iran. " On May 6, 1995, President Clinton also issued Executive Order 12959, which banned almost all trade between U.S. businesses and the Iranian government, with the exception of informational materials.
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