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Obama uses ‘memos’ in place of congressional action

Quoted: “There’s no definitive answer. I imagine that if you stacked up all 200 of these memoranda, some of them would be of great significance, and some of them would be extremely trivial,” said Mayer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “So the upshot is just counting any particular instrument, or any particular type of instrument, doesn’t really tell you the whole story.”