[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12526]
[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 bill clerk read the following letter.

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                    Washington, DC, June 26, 2006.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Richard Burr, a Senator from the State of North Carolina, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                      Ted Stevens,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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