    [Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 10, 2018)]
    [Senate]
    [Page S113]
    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. Hatch).
      The legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                          U.S. Senate,

                                            President pro tempore,

                                     Washington, DC, January 10, 2018.
         To the Senate:
           Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the
         Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable
         Rand Paul, a Senator from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to
         perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                       Orrin G. Hatch,
                                                President pro tempore.

      Mr. PAUL thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro tempore.

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