[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 25440]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read a communication to the 
Senate.
  The legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                Washington, DC, November 24, 2004.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Don Nickles a Senator from the State of Oklahoma, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                      Ted Stevens,
                                            President Pro Tempore.

  Mr. Nickles thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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