[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 162 (Tuesday, October 3, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S4901]
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                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate a certificate of 
appointment to fill the unexpired--and unexpected--term created by the 
death of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein of the State of California. 
The certificate, the Chair is advised, is in the form suggested by the 
Senate.
  If there be no objection, the reading of the certificate will be 
waived and it will be printed in full in the Record.
  There being no objection, the certificate was ordered to be printed 
in the Record, as follows:

                          State of California


                       certificate of appointment

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me 
     by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
     State of California, I, Gavin Newsom, the Governor of 
     California, do hereby appoint Laphonza Butler a Senator from 
     California to represent California in the Senate of the 
     United States until the vacancy therein caused by the death 
     of Senator Dianne Feinstein, is filled by election as 
     provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our Governor Gavin Newsom in the 
     City of Sacramento, and our seal hereto affixed in the City 
     of San Diego, this 1st day of October, in the year of our 
     Lord 2023.
                                                     Gavin Newsom,
                                                         Governor.
                                          Shirley N. Weber, PH.D.,
                                               Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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