[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14398]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read a communication to the 
Senate from the President pro tempore (Mr. Byrd).
  The assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                    Washington, DC, July 25, 2001.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Senator from the State of New York, 
     to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mrs. CLINTON thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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