[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 149 (Thursday, December 1, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: December 1, 1994]
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              AUTHORIZING ADMINISTRATION OF OATH OF OFFICE

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I send a resolution to the desk and ask for 
its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 289) to authorize the President of 
     the Senate to administer the oath of office to the Honorable 
     Fred Thompson, of Tennessee.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to the immediate 
consideration of the resolution?
  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the resolution.
  The resolution (S. Res. 289) was agreed to, as follows:

                              S. Res. 289

       Resolved, That the President of the Senate be, and he is 
     hereby, authorized to administer the oath of office to the 
     Honorable Fred Thompson of Tennessee in the Senate Chamber on 
     Friday, December 9, 1994, and that the said oath, when 
     administered as herein authorized, shall be accepted and 
     received by the Senate as the oath of office of the said Fred 
     Thompson.

  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the 
resolution was agreed to.
  Mr. MITCHELL. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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