[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 59 (Monday, May 3, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S4727]
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 read a communication to the 
Senate from the President pro tempore (Mr. Stevens).
  The legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                      Washington, DC, May 3, 2004.
     To the Senate:

       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Gordon H. Smith, a Senator from the State of Oregon, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                      Ted Stevens,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. SMITH thereupon assumed the Chair.

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