The LedgerPublic Record
BooksThe BooksFloorThe FloorGavelThe GavelDeskThe DeskRaceThe Race
PresidenciesActions
The LedgerPublic Record

Five shelves of federal record. Pick a shelf, then dig in.

Archives refreshed Sep 24, 2026

The Books

  • Overview
  • Rankings
  • Map
  • Historical
  • Awards
  • Composition

The Floor

  • Overview
  • Watchlist
  • Pipeline
  • Votes
  • Members

The Gavel

  • Overview
  • Docket
  • Opinions
  • Justices

The Desk

  • Overview
  • Presidencies
  • Actions

The Race

  • Overview
  • Map
  • Presidency
  • Senate
  • House

Guides

  • Overview
  • Start here
  • Students
  • Reporters
  • Tools

Reference

  • Home
  • Definitions
  • Methodology
  • Data integrity
  • Status
  • Data cache
  • Data dictionary
  • Pricing
  • Usage
  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • For AI agents

Free and open. Accounts optional. Privacy covers anonymous visit data only. Usage covers how to cite and reuse the archives. Contact uses a private form.

  1. Home
  2. ›The Desk
  3. ›Actions

Actions

Featured Start-here instruments with editorial notes, plus a Federal Register PRESDOCU inventory for modern administrations (8,529 actions). Browse the inventory below; open any row for FR links.

20 featured · 8,529 inventory

Featured

Federal Register inventory

PRESDOCU executive orders, proclamations, and memoranda for covered modern admins. Older administrations keep NARA library links on the presidencies shelf.

Desk action inventory with kind, presidency, and signed date
InstrumentKindPresidencySigned
National Oceans Month, 200808-1330MemorandumGeorge W. BushJun 5, 2008
National Child's Day, 200808-1325MemorandumGeorge W. BushJun 4, 2008
Italian Independence Day, 200808-1324MemorandumGeorge W. BushJun 4, 2008
Great Outdoors Month, 200808-1323MemorandumGeorge W. BushJun 4, 2008
Black Music Month, 200808-1322MemorandumGeorge W. BushJun 4, 2008
National Homeownership Month, 200808-1320MemorandumGeorge W. BushJun 3, 2008
Caribbean-American Heritage Month, 200808-1319MemorandumGeorge W. BushJun 3, 2008
National Hurricane Preparedness Week, 200808-1310MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 29, 2008
Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 200808-1306MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 28, 2008
National Maritime Day, 200808-1302MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 27, 2008
A Day of Solidarity With the Cuban People, 200808-1296MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 23, 2008
Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Stabilization of Iraq08-1288MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 21, 2008
World Trade Week, 200808-1284MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 20, 2008
National Safe Boating Week, 200808-1283MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 20, 2008
Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Burma08-1280MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 19, 2008
Peace Officers' Memorial Day and Police Week, 200808-1266MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 14, 2008
National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week, 200808-1265MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 14, 2008
Assignment of Reporting Function Under Subsection 1225(a) of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 200708-1264MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 14, 2008
Proposed Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation for Cooperation in the Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy08-1263MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 14, 2008
Mother's Day, 200808-1257MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 12, 2008
Continuation of the National Emergency Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Export of Certain Goods to Syria08-1248MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 9, 2008
Military Spouse Day, 200808-1240MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 8, 2008
National Charter Schools Week, 200808-1236MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 7, 2008
Law Day, U.S.A., 200808-1223MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 6, 2008
Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Burma08-1215MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 2, 2008
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, 200808-1210MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 1, 2008
Jewish American Heritage Month, 200808-1209MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 1, 2008
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, 200808-1208MemorandumGeorge W. BushMay 1, 2008
Malaria Awareness Day, 200808-1199MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 29, 2008
Loyalty Day, 200808-1194MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 25, 2008
National Volunteer Week, 200808-1193MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 25, 2008
Older Americans Month, 200808-1192MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 25, 2008
National Day of Prayer, 200808-1189MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 24, 2008
Waiver and Certification of Statutory Provisions Regarding the Palestine Liberation Organization Office08-1188MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 24, 2008
Amending Executive Orders 13389 and 1339008-1182Executive orderGeorge W. BushApr 23, 2008
Small Business Week, 200808-1176MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 22, 2008
To Take Certain Actions Under the African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Generalized System of Preferences and for Other Purposes08-1168MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 21, 2008
National Park Week, 200808-1166MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 18, 2008
Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A., 200808-1157MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 18, 2008
Designation of the Committee on Technology of the National Science and Technology Council To Carry Out Certain Requirements of the America COMPETES Act08-1138MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 15, 2008
National Crime Victims' Rights Week, 200808-1137MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 15, 2008
Pan American Day and Pan American Week, 200808-1132MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 14, 2008
Assignment of Functions Under Section 1821(c) of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 200708-1125MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 11, 2008
National D.A.R.E. Day, 200808-1124MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 11, 2008
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, 200808-1123MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 11, 2008
National Tartan Day, 200808-1119MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 9, 2008
National Fair Housing Month, 200808-1101MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 3, 2008
National Donate Life Month, 200808-1100MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 3, 2008
National Child Abuse Prevention Month, 200808-1099MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 3, 2008
Cancer Control Month, 200808-1098MemorandumGeorge W. BushApr 3, 2008
PreviousNext

Page 30 of 171

1…293031…171
Actions combine a Featured overlay with FR PRESDOCU inventory for covered modern administrations (Clinton+). Older admins keep NARA links and thinner lists until backfill. Source archive: The Ledger Desk watchlist + U.S. presidency catalog. Built 2026-09-20T17:22:05Z. Limits and rebuild notes: methodology.

On watchlist

20

Executive orders

16

Proclamations

2

Memoranda

2

Showing 20 of 20. Featured is the Start-here overlay; full FR inventory expands as coverage grows.

Desk action watchlist
SignedInstrumentPresidency
Jan 20, 2025Regulatory Freeze Pending Review

Memorandum

Directed agencies to freeze pending rules and withdraw unpublished proposals pending presidential appointee review.

Trump · 47th
Jan 20, 2025Executive Order 14168

Executive order · 14168

Directed agencies to recognize sex as binary biological classification in federal policy and records.

Trump · 47th
Jan 20, 2025Executive Order 14148

Executive order · 14148

Revoked a slate of Biden-era executive orders and presidential memoranda on the first day of the second Trump term.

Trump · 47th
Oct 30, 2023Executive Order 14110

Executive order · 14110

Directed agencies to set AI safety standards, reporting for frontier models, and equity and privacy guardrails.

Biden · 46th
Jun 17, 2022Proclamation 10367

Proclamation · 10367

Proclaimed Juneteenth National Independence Day, 2022.

Biden · 46th
Mar 9, 2022Executive Order 14067

Executive order · 14067

Directed agencies to coordinate policy on digital assets, including risks, illicit finance, and a potential U.S. CBDC.

Biden · 46th
Jan 27, 2021Executive Order 14008

Executive order · 14008

Created a climate task force and directed agencies to put the climate crisis at the center of foreign and domestic policy.

Biden · 46th
Jan 20, 2021Preserving and Fortifying DACA

Memorandum

Directed the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to preserve and fortify DACA.

Biden · 46th
Jan 20, 2021Executive Order 13990

Executive order · 13990

Directed agencies to review and unwind Trump-era environmental rules and rejoin the Paris Agreement process.

Biden · 46th
Sep 24, 2017Proclamation 9645

Proclamation · 9645

Suspended or restricted entry of nationals from designated countries under enhanced vetting findings.

Trump · 45th
Mar 6, 2017Executive Order 13780

Executive order · 13780

Revoked and replaced EO 13769 with a revised entry suspension and refugee pause.

Trump · 45th
Jan 27, 2017Executive Order 13769

Executive order · 13769

Restricted entry from several majority-Muslim countries and paused the refugee program; later superseded and litigated.

Trump · 45th
Jan 22, 2009Executive Order 13492

Executive order · 13492

Directed a review of Guantanamo detainees and ordered the facility closed as promptly as possible.

Obama · 44th
Jan 21, 2009Executive Order 13489

Executive order · 13489

Established policies for asserting executive privilege over presidential records and revoked EO 13233.

Obama · 44th
Nov 1, 2001Executive Order 13233

Executive order · 13233

Set procedures for asserting constitutionally based privileges over presidential records held by NARA.

Bush · 43rd
Apr 21, 1997Executive Order 13045

Executive order · 13045

Required agencies to identify and assess environmental health and safety risks that may disproportionately affect children.

Clinton · 42nd
Feb 17, 1981Executive Order 12291

Executive order · 12291

Directed agencies to submit major rules to OMB for regulatory impact analysis before publication.

Reagan · 40th
Mar 1, 1961Executive Order 10924

Executive order · 10924

Created the Peace Corps as an agency in the Department of State.

Kennedy · 35th
Jul 26, 1948Executive Order 9981

Executive order · 9981

Declared a policy of equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.

Truman · 33rd
Feb 19, 1942Executive Order 9066

Executive order · 9066

Authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe military areas from which persons could be excluded, the legal hook for West Coast exclusion and incarceration.

Roosevelt · 32nd
  • Regulatory Freeze Pending Review

    Jan 20, 2025 · Memorandum · Donald J. Trump

  • Executive Order 14168

    Jan 20, 2025 · Executive order · Donald J. Trump

  • Executive Order 14148

    Jan 20, 2025 · Executive order · Donald J. Trump

  • Executive Order 14110

    Oct 30, 2023 · Executive order · Joe Biden

  • Proclamation 10367

    Jun 17, 2022 · Proclamation · Joe Biden

  • Executive Order 14067

    Mar 9, 2022 · Executive order · Joe Biden

  • Executive Order 14008

    Jan 27, 2021 · Executive order · Joe Biden

  • Preserving and Fortifying DACA

    Jan 20, 2021 · Memorandum · Joe Biden

  • Executive Order 13990

    Jan 20, 2021 · Executive order · Joe Biden

  • Proclamation 9645

    Sep 24, 2017 · Proclamation · Donald J. Trump

  • Executive Order 13780

    Mar 6, 2017 · Executive order · Donald J. Trump

  • Executive Order 13769

    Jan 27, 2017 · Executive order · Donald J. Trump

  • Executive Order 13492

    Jan 22, 2009 · Executive order · Barack Obama

  • Executive Order 13489

    Jan 21, 2009 · Executive order · Barack Obama

  • Executive Order 13233

    Nov 1, 2001 · Executive order · George W. Bush

  • Executive Order 13045

    Apr 21, 1997 · Executive order · Bill Clinton

  • Executive Order 12291

    Feb 17, 1981 · Executive order · Ronald Reagan

  • Executive Order 10924

    Mar 1, 1961 · Executive order · John F. Kennedy

  • Executive Order 9981

    Jul 26, 1948 · Executive order · Harry S. Truman

  • Executive Order 9066

    Feb 19, 1942 · Executive order · Franklin D. Roosevelt