[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9097]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

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

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                   Washington, DC, April 18, 2007.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule 1 paragraph 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Benjamin 
     L. Cardin, a Senator from the State of Maryland, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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