[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15439]
[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.
  The assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                    Washington, DC, July 24, 2006.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3 of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Susan M. 
     Collins, a Senator from the State of Maine, to perform the 
     duties of the Chair.
                                                      Ted Stevens,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Ms. COLLINS thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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