[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 137 (Friday, September 25, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S9892]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE. The Chair lays before the Senate a 
certificate of appointment to fill the vacancy created by the death of 
Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. 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:

                   The Commonwealth of Massachusetts


                       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 
     Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I, Deval L. Patrick, the 
     Governor of said Commonwealth, do hereby appoint Paul Grattan 
     Kirk, Jr. a Senator from said State to represent said State 
     in the Senate of the United States until the vacancy therein 
     caused by the death of Edward M. Kennedy, is filled by 
     election as provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our governor Deval L. Patrick, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Boston, Massachusetts this Twenty-
     Fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord 2009.
       By the governor:
     Deval L. Patrick,
       Governor.
     William Francis Galvin,
       Secretary of Commonwealth.
     [State Seal Affixed]
  The VICE PRESIDENT. If the Senator-designate will now present himself 
to the desk, the Chair will administer the oath of office.
  Mr. Kirk, escorted by Mr. Kerry, advanced to the desk of the Vice 
President; the oath prescribed by law was administered to him by the 
Vice President; and he subscribed to the oath in the Official Oath 
Book.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Congratulations, Senator.
  (Applause, Senators rising.)

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