[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 2 (Monday, January 15, 2007)]
[Pages 15-16]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Assignment of Functions Regarding the Citizens Health Care 
Working Group

January 5, 2007

Memorandum for the Secretary of Health and Human Services

Subject: Assignment of Functions Regarding the Citizens Health Care 
Working Group

    By virtue of authority vested in me as President by the Constitution 
and laws of the United States, including section 301 of title 3 of the 
United States Code, the functions of the President under section 
1014(o)(1) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and 
Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173) are assigned to the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
    You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the 
Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:11 a.m., January 8, 
2007]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on January 
9. This item was not received in time for publication in the appropriate 
issue.

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