[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 7018]
[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 assistant legislative clerk read the following letter.

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                   Washington, DC, April 28, 2008.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Jim Webb, a Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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