[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8755]
[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 23, 2000.
     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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