[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 7163]
[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 bill clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                      Washington, DC, May 4, 2001.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Judd Gregg, a Senator from the State of New Hampshire, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Strom Thurmond,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. GREGG thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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