re: My experience with Executive Orders

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I served as a Senator for 8 years under Reagan and witnessed a Presidential Executive Order. What we are seeing Obama do is NOT what it was intended to do and is unconstitutional. When we had a bad flood in North La.in '83 and the Federal highways between Bastrop and Monroe and Monroe going towards Ferriday and St. Francisville to B.R. were all underwater. I'm sure many of you will remember that. The current budget for highway repair and work was already allocated and spent, so, what Reagan had to do was issue an E.O. to stop the spending on a project and reallocate it to flood assistance. Instead of blacktopping a 4 lane, we would dredge a more southern canal at Harrisburg and Vicksburg, plus opening up a lock and dam in Harrisburg to relieve the water off us in North La. into the Red and Mississippi rivers. That was an E.O. change that was intended to help a crisis, not a political/Liberal issue. The law was followed by Reagan. He came to Monroe at the Town and Country subdivision area on 165 north of Monroe. One of the best days I ever spent in my life.

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Which law exactly was it that Reagan was following? The law that says its OK to reallocate federal spending for whatever you please so long as you're the President and its for a good cause?