[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 145 (Tuesday, November 12, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S10809]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate a certificate of 
appointment for Senator Dean M. Barkley of the State of Minnesota.
  Without objection, it will be placed on file and the certificate of 
appointment will be deemed to have been read.
  The certificate of appointment is as follows:

                State of Minnesota, Executive Department


                       certificate of appointment

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me 
     by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
     State of Minnesota, I, Jesse Ventura, the Governor of said 
     State, do hereby appoint Dean M. Barkley a Senator from said 
     State to represent said State in the Senate of the United 
     States until the vacancy therein, caused by the death of Paul 
     Wellstone, is filled by election as provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our Governor, Jesse Ventura, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Saint Paul, Minnesota this fourth 
     day of November in the year of our Lord 2002.
       By the Governor:
                                                    Jesse Ventura,
     Governor.

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