[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 27, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S866]
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 a certificate of 
appointment to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of former 
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. The certificate, the Chair 
is advised, is in the form suggested by the Senate.
  If there is 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 New York

                           Executive Chamber


                       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 New York, I, David A. Paterson, the Governor of said 
     State, do hereby appoint Kirsten E. Gillibrand 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 Hillary Rodham Clinton, is filled by election 
     as provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our Governor David A. Paterson, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at 11:00 a.m. this twenty-third day 
     of January, in the year of our Lord 2009.
       By the Governor:
     David A. Paterson,
       Governor.
     Lorraine A. Cortez-Vaquez,
       Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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