[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16805]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

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

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                               Washington, DC, September 17, 2002.
     To the Senate:
  Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Debbie Stabenow, a Senator 
from the State of Michigan, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Ms. STABENOW thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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