[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 56 (Monday, April 9, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S1993]
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 the certificate 
of appointment to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Thad 
Cochran of Mississippi. 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 Mississippi


                       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 Mississippi, I, Phil Bryant, the Governor of said 
     State, do hereby appoint Cindy Hyde-Smith a Senator from said 
     State to represent said State in the Senate of the United 
     States until the vacancy therein caused by the resignation of 
     William Thad Cochran, is filled by election as provided by 
     law.
       Witness: His excellency our Governor Phil Bryant, and our 
     seal hereto affixed at Jackson, Mississippi this 2nd day of 
     April, in the year of our Lord 2018.
           By the Governor:
                                                      Phil Bryant,
                                                         Governor.
                                         C. Delbert Hosemann, Jr.,
                                               Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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