[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[Senate]
[Page 29334]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              APPOINTMENT OF 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 bill clerk read the following letter:
                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                Washington, DC, November 10, 1999.

       To the Senate: Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, 
     of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the 
     Honorable Susan M. Collins, a Senator from the State of 
     Maine, to perform the duties of the Chair.

                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Ms. COLLINS thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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