[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 10 (Friday, January 16, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S639]
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 the certificate 
of appointment to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of former 
Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware. The certificate, the Chair is 
advised, is in the form suggested by the Senate.
  If there be no objection, the reading of the certificate will be 
waived and it will be printed in full in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                           State of Delaware

                          Executive Department

                                 Dover


                       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 Delaware, I, Ruth Ann Minner, the governor of said 
     State do hereby appoint Edward E. Kaufman a Senator from said 
     State to represent said State in the Senate of the United 
     States until the vacancy therein caused by the resignation of 
     Joseph R. Biden, Jr., is filled by election as provided by 
     law.
       Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the said State, 
     at 5:22 p.m., this 15th day of January in the year of our 
     Lord Two Thousand Nine, and of the Independence of the United 
     States of America Two Hundred Thirty-Two.
     Ruth Ann Minner,
       Governor.
     Harriet Smith Windsor,
       Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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