[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 163 (Wednesday, October 16, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S5805]
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. Grassley).
  The legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                 Washington, DC, October 16, 2019.
     To the Senate: 
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Patrick J. Toomey, a Senator from the Commonwealth of 
     Pennsylvania, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Chuck Grassley,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. TOOMEY thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cramer). The Senator from Pennsylvania.

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