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Every subject at this tier is asked the same six questions, fixed before the subject is chosen so the set cannot be picked to suit an argument. The others written for this record are Private Money, Reach, Affiliations, The Legal Record and Standing. With this one the base set is complete, so the overlay dives — the ones specific to what this subject has been — are unblocked. None of them could have been started before now.
The same question is answered for Donald Trump and Barack Obama, from the same two sources — and the three records disagree about which instruments matter.
Back to the full record.
First 565 days in office, which is the window where a comparison needs no adjustment — every president has had exactly the same number of days to sign.
| President | Executive orders | Proclamations | Memoranda | Determinations | Notices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G.W. Bush | 74 | 180 | 15 | 44 | 22 |
| Obama | 61 | 203 | 70 | 28 | 32 |
| Trump 45 | 82 | 202 | 44 | 19 | 41 |
| Biden | 95 | 290 | 50 | 26 | 60 |
Clinton is absent from the instrument tables. Federal Register presidential-document coverage begins in December 1993, so his counts would be incomplete rather than low, and a partial figure sitting inside a comparison is worse than a gap. He appears in the public-laws series, which comes from a different source with different coverage.
At equal days into term this record is first of the four on executive orders, proclamations and notices, and second on memoranda. It is the busiest opening of the four on almost every instrument — which is the opposite of what the full-term raw totals suggest, and the reason the next table carries a rate column.
Complete terms only, with the span shown and a per-year rate. This is a four-year term set against two eight-year ones, so both numbers are in every cell and the highlight follows the rate.
| President | Span | Executive orders | Proclamations | Memoranda | Determinations | Notices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G.W. Bush | 8 yrs | 29136.4/yr | 942117.8/yr | 13116.4/yr | 28836/yr | 15118.9/yr |
| Obama | 8 yrs | 27634.5/yr | 1,227153.4/yr | 25632/yr | 13617/yr | 20826/yr |
| Trump 45 | 4 yrs | 22055/yr | 570142.5/yr | 13433.5/yr | 5814.5/yr | 11729.3/yr |
| Biden | 4 yrs | 16240.5/yr | 747186.8/yr | 15839.5/yr | 5914.8/yr | 15939.8/yr |
Executive orders are the sequential count (last number minus first, plus one), the basis the P1 ledger uses. The other four are document counts — those instruments are not sequentially numbered. The revocation table below uses document counts on both sides and says so.
The raw executive-order column puts this record last of the four, on 162 against G.W. Bush’s 291. Per year it is second of the four, on 40.5 against Trump 45’s 55.0 — ahead of both eight-year terms. On proclamations, memoranda and notices the raw column hides a lead rather than inventing one: this record is highest per year on all three. Nothing about the counts changes between those sentences, only whether the four years are divided out.
Counted as of 2026-08-10. This dive belongs to the record it sits inside, whose ledger carries the same executive-order counts on the same basis. The use of executive power as a subject in its own right is owned by Executive Power.