[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 26570]
[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, December 11, 2000.
       To The Senate: Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, 
     of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the 
     Honorable Peter G. Fitzgerald, a Senator from the State of 
     Illinois, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
     President pro tempore.

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