[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12034]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Voinovich). 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, May 19, 2003.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     George V. Voinovich, a Senator from the State of Ohio, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                      Ted Stevens,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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