[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20710]
[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, August 5, 2009.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, Section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Tom 
     Udall, a Senator from the State of New Mexico, to perform the 
     duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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