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Barack Obama: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including…”

On the recordJanuary 12, 2017
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 3345et seq. (the 'Act'), it is hereby ordered that:
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Executive Order 13763—Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection Agency

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