[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 172 (Tuesday, December 21, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10849-S10850]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will please read a communication to 
the Senate from the President pro tempore (Mr. Inouye).
  The bill clerk read as follows:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                Washington, DC, December 21, 2010.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Jeanne Shaheen, a

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     Senator from the State of New Hampshire, to perform the 
     duties of the Chair.
                                                 Daniel K. Inouye,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mrs. SHAHEEN thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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