[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 21882]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

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

                                             United States Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                               Washington, DC, September 17, 1999.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Judd 
     Gregg, a Senator from the State of New Hampshire, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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