[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Pages 65-66]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   ELECTION OF THE HONORABLE ROBERT C. BYRD AS PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I send a resolution to the desk.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 3) to elect Robert C. Byrd, a Senator 
     from the State of West Virginia, to be President pro tempore 
     of the Senate of the United States.

  The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the resolution is considered 
and agreed to.
  The resolution (S. Res. 3) was agreed to, as follows:

                               S. Res. 3

       Resolved, That Robert C. Byrd, a Senator from the State of 
     West Virginia, be, and he is hereby, elected President of the 
     Senate pro tempore.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Senator Byrd will be escorted to the desk.
  Senator Robert C. Byrd, escorted by Mr. Reid, Mr. McConnell, and Mr.

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Rockefeller, respectively, advanced to the desk of the Vice President, 
and he subscribed to the oath in the Official Oath Book.
  The VICE PRESIDENT. Congratulations.
  [Applause, Senators rising.]

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