[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 33 (Monday, August 23, 1993)]
[Pages 1638-1639]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12859--Establishment of the Domestic Policy Council

 August 16, 1993

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution  and  
the  laws  of  the United States of America, including sections 105, 
107, and 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as 
follows:
    Section 1. Establishment. There is established the Domestic Policy 
Council (``the Council'').
    Sec. 2. Membership. The Council shall comprise the:
      (a) President, who shall serve as a Chairman of the Council;
      (b) Vice President;
      (c) Secretary of Health and Human Services;
      (d) Attorney General;
      (e) Secretary of Labor;
      (f) Secretary of Veterans Affairs;
      (g) Secretary of the Interior;
      (h) Secretary of Education;
      (i) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
      (j) Secretary of Agriculture;
      (k) Secretary of Transportation;
      (l) Secretary of Commerce;
      (m) Secretary of Energy;
      (n) Secretary of the Treasury;
      (o) Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
      (p) Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers;
      (q) Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
      (r) Assistant to the President for Economic Policy;

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      (s) Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy;
      (t) Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of 
      National Service;
      (u) Senior Advisor to the President for Policy Development;
      (v) Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy;
      (w) AIDS Policy Coordinator; and
      (x) Such other officials of Executive departments and agencies as 
      the President may, from time to time, designate.
    Sec. 3. Meeting of the Council. The President, or upon his 
direction, the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy (``the 
Assistant''), may convene meetings of the Council. The President shall 
preside over the meetings of the Council, provided that in his absence 
the Vice President, and in his absence the Assistant, will preside.
    Sec. 4. Functions. (a) The principal functions of the Council are: 
(1) to coordinate the domestic policy-making process; (2) to coordinate 
domestic policy advice to the President; (3) to ensure that domestic 
policy decisions and programs are consistent with the President's stated 
goals, and to ensure that those goals are being effectively pursued; and 
(4) to monitor implementation of the President's domestic policy agenda. 
The Assistant may take such actions, including drafting a Charter, as 
may be necessary or appropriate to implement such functions.
    (b) All executive departments and agencies, whether or not 
represented on the Council, shall coordinate domestic policy through the 
Council.
    (c) In performing the foregoing functions, the Assistant will, when 
appropriate, work with the Assistant to the President for National 
Security Affairs and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy.
    Sec. 5. Administration. (a) The Council may function through 
established or ad hoc committees, task forces or interagency groups.
    (b) The Council shall have a staff to be headed by the Assistant to 
the President for Domestic Policy. The Council shall have such staff and 
other assistance as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this 
order.
    (c) All executive departments and agencies shall cooperate with the 
Council and provide such assistance, information, and advice to the 
Council as the Council may request, to the extent permitted by law.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
August 16, 1993.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:48 p.m., August 17, 
1993]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on August 17, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
August 19.