[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 88 (Monday, June 21, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S7287]
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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, June 21, 1999.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule 1, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Pat 
     Roberts, a Senator from the State of Kansas, to perform the 
     duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.
  Mr. ROBERTS thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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