[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 54 (Friday, May 6, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 6, 1994]
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              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will please read a communication to 
the Senate from the President pro tempore [Mr. Byrd].
  The assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                      Washington, DC, May 6, 1994.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Harlan 
     Mathews, a Senator from the State of Tennessee, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. MATHEWS thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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