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Originally Posted by August
I don't care if they call it the Rock Candy Mountain but I have to wonder by what authority does the President change something that Congress has decided. I would think that if it took an act of Congress to name the mountain it should take an act of Congress to change it.
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1. It was not the President who changed this, but the Secretary of the Interior. The President had to approve the Secretary's order. But it was a Secretary Order not an Executive Order.
2. The Board on Geographic Names has initial responsibility, not Congress. In this case Congress established the Mount McKinley National Park in 1917, but dealt with naming a park and not the mountain itself.
3. 43 U.S.C. section 364b specifically gives that Secretary the authority to make this decision if the board does not make a decision in a reasonable amount of time.
Since the Congress has been blocking the Board from making this decision for 40 years, the Secretary under section 364b is making the decision. If congress can't make a decision in 40 years, I think someone should step in and make the decision for them. That is the issue here. No one is going against any decision of Congress.. Congress would not make any decision.