[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 140 (Thursday, October 8, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S11831]
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              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read a communication to the 
Senate.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                  Washington, DC, October 8, 1998.
       To the Senate: Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, 
     of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the 
     Honorable Mike DeWine, a Senator from the State of Ohio, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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