[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 19, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S303]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            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 bill clerk read as follows:

                                                       U.S. Senate


                                        President Pro Tempore,

                                 Washington, DC, January 19, 1999.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable George B. 
     Voinovich, a Senator from the State of Ohio, to perform the 
     duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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