For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 9, 2005

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

SUBJECT: Assignment of Function with Respect to Loan Guarantees to Egypt

By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, I hereby assign to the Secretary of State the functions conferred upon the President relating to loan guarantees to Egypt in paragraph (2) under the heading "Economic Support Fund" in chapter 5 of title I of the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 (Public Law 108-11).

You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

GEORGE W. BUSH

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