[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7453]
[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. Stevens).
  The legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                   Washington, DC, March 26, 2003.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Lindsey Graham, a Senator from the State of South Carolina, 
     to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                      Ted Stevens,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. LINDSEY GRAHAM thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President 
pro tempore.

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