[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17957]
[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. Byrd).
  The legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                  Washington, DC, August 15, 2008.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable John D. 
     Rockefeller IV, a Senator from the State of West Virginia, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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