[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 27]
[Senate]
[Page 36505]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            APPOINTMENT OF THE ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will please read a communication to 
the Senate from the President pro tempore (Mr. Byrd).
  The bill clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                Washington, DC, December 28, 2007.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provision of rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Byron L. 
     Dorgan, a Senator from the State of North Dakota, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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