Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions

By Ceci Connolly and R. Jeffrey SmithWashington Post Staff Writers Sunday, November 9, 2008; Page A16 Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies. Obama himself has signaled, for example, that he intends to reverse Bush's controversial limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, a decision that scientists say has restrained research into some of the most promising avenues for defeating a wide array of diseases, such as Parkinson's.