Further Amendments to Executive Order 12835, Establishment of the National Economic Council
Signed February 5, 2009·Barack Obama·74 FR 6979
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Amends Executive Order 12835, which established the National Economic Council, by adding several officials to the list of council members named in section 2. The added positions are the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Education, the Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison, the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, the Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration. The order also directs that the remaining subsections of section 2 be relettered accordingly to accommodate the new entries.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Amends: EO 12835, January 25, 1993
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Executive Order 13499 of February 5, 2009
Further Amendments to Executive Order 12835,
Establishment of the National Economic Council
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Executive Order 12835 of January 25, 1993, as amended,
is further amended by:
(a) inserting “(l) Secretary of Health and Human
Services; (m) Secretary of Education; (n) Senior
Advisor and Assistant to the President for
Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison; (o)
Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate
Change; (p) Assistant to the President and Chief
Technology Officer; (q) Administrator of the Small
Business Administration” after “(k) Secretary of
Homeland Security;” in section 2; and
(b) relettering the subsequent subsections in section 2
appropriately.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 5, 2009.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed February 5, 2009. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.