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September 12, 2024 | 10:31 AM

Shapiro brings back Office of Gun Violence Prevention

Between 2018 and 2022, around 1,600 Pennsylvanians were killed by guns each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
To help drive up ideas that can reduce the death toll, Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order to bring back the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which was first established in 2019.

By Ben Wasserstein/WITF

May 14, 2024 | 9:30 AM

With more than 600 jobs to fill, Josh Shapiro intends to change how PA hires

By Ben Wasserstein/WITF

January 31, 2023 | 5:55 PM

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro targets state license and permit bottlenecks in latest executive order

Pros and business alike have complained processing times are sometimes slow – to the point where people can’t work and things can’t get built.

By Sam Dunklau

April 8, 2021 | 5:23 AM

President Joe Biden to announce actions on firearms, tap gun safety advocate to lead ATF

Biden will announce that the Justice Department will pursue two new regulations: one to curb the proliferation of so-called ghost guns, and a second that would regulate stabilizing braces.

By Tamara Keith, Brian Naylor and Deirdre Walsh/NPR

February 4, 2021 | 1:10 PM

Biden’s executive orders skip family detention, Pa. and national groups push for more

Pennsylvania has a unique connection to family detention and immigrant advocates from the state are urging Biden to terminate the policy that’s been in place for nearly decade.

By Anthony Orozco

February 3, 2021 | 7:30 AM

With 28 executive orders signed, President Biden is off to a record start

Executive orders are the easiest presidential directives to track over time because they are all numbered and published in the Federal Register. But Biden is using many more levers of executive authority, also signing presidential memoranda, proclamations and letters.

By Tamara Keith/NPR

February 2, 2021 | 8:37 AM

Biden’s ethics pledge is stringent. Some want it to be even stronger

Biden's ethics executive order is a roadmap for appointees, meant to signal that those in his administration are committed to serving the American people — not their former or future employers, and not their own self interests. It's tougher than the ethics order Trump signed and repealed, and it's more stringent than the one that governed the Obama administration too.

By Tamara Keith/NPR

January 28, 2021 | 11:40 AM

It’s not just in Pennsylvania. State lawmakers are pushing to curb governors’ virus powers

The push is underway in such states as Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana and Pennsylvania, where legislators are seeking a constitutional amendment to strip the governor of many of his emergency powers.

By David A. Lieb/The Associated Press

January 28, 2021 | 7:42 AM

Biden to revoke Trump abortion policy, expand Obamacare with new executive orders

"For President Biden, this is personal," a news release read. "As we continue to battle COVID-19, it is even more critical that Americans have meaningful access to affordable care."

By Jaclyn Diaz/NPR

Updated: 2021-01-21 17:43:12

On day 2, Biden focused on COVID-19 strategy with 10 executive actions

President Biden laid out his approach to the pandemic before he took office. On Thursday, he began implementing it, calling the effort a “wartime undertaking.”

By Ayesha Rascoe and Alana Wise/NPR

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