[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 24440]
[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, November 29, 2008.
      To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Patrick 
     J. Leahy, a Senator from the State of Vermont, to perform the 
     duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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