[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 7222]
[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 legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                   Washington, DC, April 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 Rick Santorum, a Senator from the State of 
     Pennsylvania, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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