[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 13 (Wednesday, February 5, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S981]
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            APPOINTMENT OF THE ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

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


                                        President Pro Tempore,

                                 Washington, DC, February 5, 1997.
     To the Senate:
  Under the provisions of rule 1, Section 3, of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Susan M. Collins, a Senator 
from the State of Maine, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Ms. COLLINS thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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