[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 123 (Monday, July 29, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5529]
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 executive clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                    Washington, DC, July 29, 2024.
     To the Senate:
  Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Tammy Duckworth, a Senator 
from the State of Illinois, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                     PATTY MURRAY,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Ms. DUCKWORTH thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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