[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 19, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S1089]
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. Byrd).
  The bill clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                              Washington, D.C., February 19, 2008.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of Rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Joseph I. Lieberman, a Senator from the State of Connecticut, 
     to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. LIEBERMAN thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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