[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 24905]
[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 bill clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                 Washington, DC, October 15, 2009.
     To the Senate:
  Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Kirsten E. Gillibrand, a 
Senator from the State of New York, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mrs. GILLIBRAND thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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