[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 33 (Monday, March 3, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S2991]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will please read a communication to 
the Senate from the President pro tempore (Mr. Stevens).
  The assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                    Washington, DC, March 3, 2003.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Larry E. Craig, a Senator from the State of Idaho, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                      Ted Stevens,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. CRAIG thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.
  (Mr. CHAMBLISS assumed the chair.)

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