[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12679]
[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, June 18, 2008.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 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.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cardin). The Senator from Vermont.

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