[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 8]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair now lays before the Senate the 
certificate of appointment of Senator-designate Robert Menendez of the 
State of New Jersey.
  Without objection, it will be placed on file and the certificate of 
appointment will be deemed to have been read.
  The certificate follows.

                                              State of New Jersey,


                                       Office of the Governor,

                                    Trenton, NJ, January 17, 2006.

                       Certificate of Appointment

     To: The President of the Senate of the United States

       This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me 
     by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
     State of New Jersey, I, Jon S. Corzine, the governor of said 
     State, do hereby appoint Robert Menendez a Senator from said 
     State to represent said State in the Senate of the United 
     States until the vacancy therein caused by my resignation 
     from the Senate is filled by election as provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our governor, Jon S. Corzine, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Trenton this 17th day of January, 
     in the year of our Lord 2006.
       By the governor:
                                                   Jon S. Corzine,
     Governor.

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