[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22639]
[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, September 27, 1999.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable William 
     H. Frist, a Senator from the State of Tennessee, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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