[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8365]
[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, May 18, 2000.
       To the Senate: Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, 
     of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the 
     Honorable Lincoln Chafee, a Senator from the State of Rhode 
     Island, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. L. CHAFEE thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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