[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 127 (Thursday, September 10, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S9230]
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 Mel Martinez of Florida. 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 Florida

                         Office of the Governor


                       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 Florida, I, Charlie Crist, the Governor of the State 
     of Florida, do hereby appoint George S. LeMieux, a Senator 
     from Florida to represent the State of Florida in the Senate 
     of the United States until the vacancy therein caused by the 
     resignation of Mel Martinez, is filled by election as 
     provided by law.
       In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
     caused the Great Seal of the State of Florida to be affixed 
     at Tallahassee, this 9th day of September, 2009
     Charlie Crist
       Governor.
     Kurt S. Browning,
       Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

     FILED
     2009 SEP 9 AM 10:25
     DEPARTMENT OF STATE
     TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA

     

                          ____________________