[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 7062]
[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.
  The bill clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                   Washington, DC, April 29, 2008.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Robert P. Casey, Jr., a Senator from the Commonwealth of 
     Pennsylvania, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. CASEY of Pennsylvania thereupon assumed the chair as Acting 
President pro tempore.

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