[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Pages 17206-17207]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT AND CREDENTIALS

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the certificate 
of appointment of Senator John Barrasso of the State of Wyoming. 
Without objection, it will be placed on file and the certificate of 
appointment will be deemed to have been read.
  The certificate of appointment is as follows:

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                                       Office of the Governor,

                                             The State of Wyoming.

                       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 Wyoming, I, Dave Freudenthal, the Governor of said State, 
     do hereby appoint John Barrasso a Senator from said State to 
     represent said State in the Senate of the United States until 
     the vacancy therein caused by the death of Senator Craig 
     Thomas, is filled by election as provided by law.
       Witness: His Excellency our Governor Dave Freudenthal, and 
     our Seal hereto affixed at Cheyenne, Wyoming, this 22nd day 
     of June, in the year of our Lord 2007.
           By the Governor:
                                                 Dave Freudenthal,
                                                         Governor.
                                                     Max Maxfield,
     Secretary of State.

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