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Article: Clinton edict on federalism stirs up state, local leaders. (Bill Clinton's proposed Executive Order #13083 would preempt municipal authority)
- Article from:
- Nation's Cities Weekly
- Article date:
- July 13, 1998
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A Presidential order to alter fundamentally the relationship of the federal government and state and local governments is scheduled to go into effect next month. An Executive Order on Federalism, #13083, proposed by President Clinton, would rewrite the distribution and balance of power away from the direction established under the last three Presidencies. It would set the federal government and its many agencies that affect cities and towns on a very different policy course--revoking earlier commitments to oppose unfunded federal mandates and federal preemption, and replacing them with expanded guidelines and justifications for preempting historic and traditional ...