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Prior to Roosevelt, only one President issued over 200 executive orders, [[Grover Cleveland]].(Cleveland issued a total of 253)<ref name=executiveorders>[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php Executive Orders: Washington - Obama]</ref> Of the first 25 Presidents in total, 1262 executive orders were issued. Roosevelt issued 1081.<ref name=executiveorders />
Prior to Roosevelt, only one President issued over 200 executive orders, [[Grover Cleveland]].(Cleveland issued a total of 253)<ref name=executiveorders>[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php Executive Orders: Washington - Obama]</ref> Of the first 25 Presidents in total, 1262 executive orders were issued. Roosevelt issued 1081.<ref name=executiveorders />
Members of congress eventually got tired of Roosevelt's excesses in using executive orders to create policy. On February 25th, 1907, Senator Charles W. Fulton, a Republican from Oregon, added an amendment to the 1907 Agricultural Appropriations Bill<ref>[http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev7_007136.pdf Siuslaw National Forest], '''PDF'''</ref> declaring these activities as falling under the authority of congressional power, not executive power. Congressional leaders concluded that the president was out of control.<ref>{{cite book|title=Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UiYRkL4GqP4C&pg=PA178 |year=2008|publisher=Yale University Press|pages=178|isbn=9780300145144}}</ref>
Members of congress eventually got tired of Roosevelt's excesses in using executive orders to create policy. On February 25, 1907, Senator Charles W. Fulton, a Republican from Oregon, added an amendment to the 1907 Agricultural Appropriations Bill<ref>[http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev7_007136.pdf Siuslaw National Forest], '''PDF'''</ref> declaring these activities as falling under the authority of congressional power, not executive power. Congressional leaders concluded that the president was out of control.<ref>{{cite book|title=Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UiYRkL4GqP4C&pg=PA178 |year=2008|publisher=Yale University Press|pages=178|isbn=9780300145144}}</ref>
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