[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[Senate]
[Page 28327]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION AND CREDENTIALS

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the credentials 
of Lincoln D. Chafee, appointed a Senator by the Governor of the State 
of Rhode Island on November 2, 1999, to represent said State in the 
Senate of the United States until the vacancy in the term ending 
January 3, 2001, caused by the death of the Honorable John H. Chafee, 
is filled by election as provided by law.
  The clerk will read the certificate.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

   State of Rhode Island--Certificate of Election for Unexpired Term

     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 Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, I, Lincoln 
     C. Almond, the Governor of Rhode Island, do hereby appoint 
     Lincoln D. Chafee, a Senator from Rhode Island to represent 
     it in the Senate of the United States until the vacancy 
     therein, caused by the death of Senator John H. Chafee, is 
     filled by election as provided by law.

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