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Day 8: Obama edict repealed 1996 welfare reform’s work requirement

By Conn Carroll
Published September 25, 2013 4:00am ET
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Day 8: Obama edict repealed 1996 welfare reform’s work requirement
A close-up of President Barack Obama signing the bipartisan bill to cut student loan interest rates, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The bill has been awaiting Obama's signature since earlier this month, when the House gave it final congressional approval after a drawn-out process to reach a compromise in the Senate. The bill links student loan interest rates to the financial markets. It would offer lower rates for most students now, but higher ones down the line if the economy improves as expected. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Part eight of the Washington Examiner’s 10-part series “With the Stroke of a Pen: How Obama abuses executive power to make the law of the land.”

There were plenty of reasons why President Obama’s $787 trillion economic stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, received no Republican votes in the House of Representatives.

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