[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.