[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 24166]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             COMMUNICATION FROM THE HONORABLE BARACK OBAMA

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays a communication 
before the Senate.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

                                                  U.S. Senate,

                                Washington, DC, November 18, 2008.
     Hon. Richard Cheney,
     Vice President of the United States of America, President of 
         the U.S. Senate, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC.
       Dear Vice President Cheney, President of the U.S. Senate: 
     This letter is to inform you that I resigned from the United 
     States Senate, effective November 16, 2008, in order to 
     prepare for my duties as President of the United States.
           Sincerely,
                                                     Barack Obama,
     U.S. Senator.

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