[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 139 (Monday, September 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5868]
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                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate a 
certificate of appointment to fill the unexpired term created by the 
resignation of former Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey.
  The certificate, the Chair is advised, is in the form suggested by 
the Senate.
  Hearing 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 New Jersey


                       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 New Jersey, I, Philip D. Murphy, the Governor of New 
     Jersey, do hereby appoint George S. Helmy, a Senator from New 
     Jersey to represent New Jersey in the Senate of the United 
     States until the vacancy therein caused by the resignation of 
     Senator Robert Menendez, effective August 20, 2024, is filled 
     by election as provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our Governor, Philip D. Murphy, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Trenton this 23rd day of August, 
     in the year of our Lord 2024.
           By the Governor:
                                                 Philip D. Murphy,
                                                         Governor.
       Attest:
                                                   Tahesha L. Way,
                                               Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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