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
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.
George W. Bush, Memorandum on Assignment of Function Regarding Medicare Funding Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/277404