[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 23098]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Clinton). The clerk will please read a 
communication to the Senate from the President pro tempore (Mr. Byrd).
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                Washington, DC, November 28, 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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