[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 20, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S1967]
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. Leahy).
  The assistant legislative clerk read the following letter.

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                   Washington, DC, March 20, 2013.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     William M. Cowan, a Senator from the Commonwealth of 
     Massachusetts, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Patrick J. Leahy,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. COWAN thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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