    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 6 (Monday, February 18, 2008)]
    [Page 212]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Memorandum on Assignment of Function Regarding Medicare Funding

    February 14, 2008

    Memorandum for the Secretary of Health and Human Services

    Subject: Assignment of Function Regarding Medicare Funding

        By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
    the laws of the United States, including section 301 of title 3, United
    States Code, you are directed to perform the function of the President
    as described under section 802 of the Medicare Prescription Drug,
    Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-173, 31
    U.S.C. 1105(h) (1)).
        You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the
    Federal Register.
                                                    George W. Bush

     [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:44 a.m., February
    15, 2008]

    Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary
    on February 15, and it will be published in the Federal Register on
    February 19.