[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 3, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S1]
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, January 3, 2006.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule 1, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Robert F. 
     Bennett, a Senator from the State of Utah, to perform the 
     duties of the Chair.
                                                      Ted Stevens,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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