[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 82 (Monday, June 22, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S6735]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will please read a 
communication to the Senate from the President pro tempore [Mr. 
Thurmond].
  The bill clerk read as follows:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                    Washington, DC, June 22, 1998.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Jon Kyl, 
     a Senator from the State of Arizona, to perform the duties of 
     the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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