[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 17 (Thursday, February 4, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the certificate 
of election to fill the unexpired term created by the death of the late 
Senator Edward M. Kennedy of the Commonwealth 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 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 on the nineteenth day of January, 
     two thousand and ten Scott P. Brown was duly chosen by the 
     qualified electors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a 
     Senator for the unexpired term ending at noon on the third 
     day of January, two thousand and thirteen, to fill the 
     vacancy in the representation from said Commonwealth in the 
     Senate of the United States caused by the death of Senator 
     Edward M. Kennedy.
       Witness: His Excellency, the Governor, Deval L. Patrick, 
     and our seal hereto affixed at Boston, this fourth day of 
     February in the year of our Lord two thousand and ten.
     Deval L. Patrick,
       By His Excellency, Governor.
     William Francis Galvin,
       Secretary of the Commonwealth.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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