[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 199 (Wednesday, December 21, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S9711]
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. Leahy).
       The senior assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:
     
                                                           U.S. Senate,
     
     
                                             President pro tempore,
     
                                     Washington, DC, December 21, 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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