[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 193 (Thursday, December 6, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S7323]
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, December 6, 2018.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Dean Heller, a Senator from the State of Nevada, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Orrin G. Hatch,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. HELLER thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Louisiana.

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