[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 107 (Tuesday, July 20, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S6010]
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 death of the late 
Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia. 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 certificate was ordered to be printed 
in the Record, as follows:

                         State of West Virginia

                        Office of the Executive

                            Joe Manchin III

                                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 West Virginia, I Joe Manchin III, the Governor of 
     said State, do hereby appoint Carte Patrick Goodwin 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 Robert C. Byrd, is filled by election as provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our Governor Joe Manchin III, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Charleston, West Virginia this the 
     Sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord 2010.
       By the Governor:
     Joe Manchin III,
       Governor.
     Natalie E. Tennant,
       Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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