[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 206 (Thursday, December 14, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5969]
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 (Mrs. Murray).
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                Washington, DC, December 14, 2023.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Raphael G. Warnock, a Senator from the State of Georgia, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                     Patty Murray,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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