Eight years ago, a newly elected President Barack Obama and his team sifted through the 291 executive orders that were issued during President George W. Bush’s two terms. Obama revoked Bush’s order restricting access to presidential papers. He also loosened Bush’s restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.

President-elect Donald Trump now faces a similar task—with a nearly equal number of executive orders.

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