[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 109 (Tuesday, June 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S3179]
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              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. Leahy).
  The legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                    Washington, DC, June 28, 2022.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Ben Ray Lujan, a Senator from the State of New Mexico, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Patrick J. Leahy,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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