Further Amendments to Executive Order 12859, Establishment of the Domestic Policy Council
Signed February 5, 2009·Barack Obama·74 FR 6981
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Amends Executive Order 12859, which established the Domestic Policy Council, by revising the list of officials who serve as members. It replaces the Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of National Service with the Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Liaison, replaces the Senior Advisor to the President for Policy Development with the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, and replaces the AIDS Policy Coordinator with the Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer. It also adds the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy as members, and relabels the remaining subsection accordingly.
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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 12859, August 16, 1993
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Executive Order 13500 of February 5, 2009
Further Amendments to Executive Order 12859,
Establishment of the Domestic Policy 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 12859 of August 16, 1993, as amended,
is further amended by making the following revisions in
section 2:
(a) striking “(u) Assistant to the President and
Director of the Office of National Service;” and
inserting in lieu thereof “(u) Senior Advisor and
Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental
Affairs and Public Liaison;”;
(b) striking “(v) Senior Advisor to the President for
Policy Development;” and inserting in lieu thereof
“(v) Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate
Change;”;
(c) striking “(x) AIDS Policy Coordinator; and” and
inserting in lieu thereof “(x) Assistant to the
President and Chief Technology Officer;”;
(d) inserting “(y) Chief Executive Officer,
Corporation for National and Community Service” and
“(z) Director of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy; and”; and
(e) relettering the subsequent subsection in section 2
as “(aa)”.
(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.