[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17585]
[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 assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                Washington, DC, September 8, 2004.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Lindsey O. Graham, a Senator from the State of South 
     Carolina, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                      Ted Stevens,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. GRAHAM of South Carolina thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting 
President pro tempore.

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