[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 143 (Monday, August 27, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5941]
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 senior assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                  Washington, DC, August 27, 2018.
     To the Senate:
  Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Joni Ernst, a Senator from 
the State of Iowa, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Orrin G. Hatch,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mrs. ERNST thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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