[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 145 (Tuesday, December 2, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S6239]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the certificates 
of election to fill the unexpired terms for the States of Hawaii and 
South Carolina. The certificates, the Chair is advised, are in the form 
suggested by the Senate. If there be no objection, the reading of the 
certificates will be waived, and they will be printed in full in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record as follows:


               CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION FOR UNEXPIRED TERM

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that on the fourth day of November, 
     2014, Brian Schatz was duly chosen by the qualified electors 
     of the State of Hawaii a Senator for the unexpired term 
     ending at noon on the 3rd day of January, 2017, to fill the 
     vacancy in the representation from said State in the Senate 
     of the United States caused by the death of Daniel K. Inouye.
       Witness: His excellency our governor Neil Abercrombie, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Honolulu this 24th day of 
     November, in the year of our Lord 2014.
           By the Governor:
                                                 Neil Abercrombie,
                                                         Governor.
                                                    Scott T. Nago,
                                           Chief Election Officer.
     [State Seal Affixed]
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                      The State of South Carolina


               CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION FOR UNEXPIRED TERM

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that on the fourth day of November A.D. 
     2014, Tim Scott was duly chosen by the qualified electors of 
     the State of South Carolina a Senator for the unexpired term 
     ending at noon on the third day of January, 2017, to fill the 
     vacancy in the representation from said State in the Senate 
     of the United States caused by the resignation of Jim DeMint.
       Witness: Her Excellency our governor Nikki R. Haley and our 
     seal hereto affixed at Columbia, South Carolina, this twenty-
     fourth day of November in the year of our Lord 2014.
                                                   Nikki R. Haley,
                                                         Governor.
                                                     Mark Hammond,
                                               Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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