[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16652]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    ADMINISTRATION OF OATH OF OFFICE

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. If the Senator-designate will present 
himself at the desk, the Chair will administer the oath of office as 
required by the Constitution and prescribed by law.
  Please stand.
  (Senators rising.)
  The Senator-designate, escorted by Senator Cleland, advanced to the 
desk of the President pro tempore; the oath prescribed by law was 
administered to him by the President pro tempore; and he subscribed to 
the oath in the Official Oath Book.
  (Applause.)
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. He told me his mother was from South 
Carolina. He's bound to be all right.

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