[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17369]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            APPOINTMENT OF THE ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will please read a communication to 
the Senate from the President pro tempore (Mr. Thurmond).
  The legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                    Washington, DC, July 22, 1999.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Michael 
     D. Crapo, a Senator from the State of Idaho, to perform the 
     duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. CRAPO thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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