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- Subject: CLINTON: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 21:35:55 -0500
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- THE WHITE HOUSE
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- Office of the Press Secretary
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- For Immediate Release January 25, 1993
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- EXECUTIVE ORDER
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- ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL
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- By the authority vested in me as President of the United States
- by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,
- including sections 105, 107, and 301 of title 3, United States Code,
- it is hereby ordered as follows:
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- Section 1. Establishment. There is established the National
- Economic Council ("the Council").
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- Sec. 2. Membership. The Council shall comprise the:
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- (a) President, who shall serve as Chairman of the Council;
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- (b) Vice President;
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- (c) Secretary of State;
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- (d) Secretary of the Treasury;
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- (e) Secretary of Agriculture;
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- (f) Secretary of Commerce;
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- (g) Secretary of Labor;
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- (h) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
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- (i) Secretary of Transportation;
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- (j) Secretary of Energy;
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- (k) Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
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- (l) Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers;
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- (m) Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
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- (n) United States Trade Representative;
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- (o) Assistant to the President for Economic Policy;
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- (p) Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy;
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- (q) National Security Adviser;
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- (r) Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
- Policy; and
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- (s) Such other officials of executive departments and agencies
- as the President may, from time to time, designate.
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- Sec. 3. Meetings of the Council. The President, or upon his
- direction, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy ("the
- Assistant"), may convene meetings of the Council. The President
- shall preside over the meetings of the Council, provided that in his
- absence the Vice President, and in his absence the Assistant, will
- preside.
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- Sec. 4. Functions. (a) The principal functions of the Council
- are: (1) to coordinate the economic policy-making process with
- respect to domestic and international economic issues; (2) to
- coordinate economic policy advice to the President; (3) to ensure
- that economic policy decisions and programs are consistent with the
- President's stated goals, and to ensure that those goals are being
- effectively pursued; and (4) to monitor implementation of the
- President's economic policy agenda. The Assistant may take such
- actions, including drafting a Charter, as may be necessary or
- appropriate to implement such functions.
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- (b) All executive departments and agencies, whether or not
- represented on the Council, shall coordinate economic policy through
- the Council.
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- (c) In performing the foregoing functions, the Assistant will,
- when appropriate, work in conjunction with the Assistant to the
- President for Domestic Policy and the Assistant to the President for
- National Security.
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- (d) The Secretary of the Treasury will continue to be the
- senior economic official in the executive branch and the President's
- chief economic spokesperson. The Director of the Office of
- Management and Budget, as the President's principal budget
- spokesperson, will continue to be the senior budget official in the
- executive branch. The Council of Economic Advisers will continue its
- traditional analytic, forecasting and advisory functions.
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- Sec. 5. Administration. (a) The Council may function through
- established or ad hoc committees, task forces or interagency groups.
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- (b) The Council shall have a staff to be headed by the
- Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. The Council shall
- have such staff and other assistance as may be necessary to carry out
- the provisions of this order.
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- (c) All executive departments and agencies shall cooperate with
- the Council and provide such assistance, information, and advice to
- the Council as the Council may request, to the extent permitted by
- law.
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- WILLIAM J. CLINTON
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- THE WHITE HOUSE, January 25, 1993.
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