[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 23]
[Senate]
[Page 30687]
[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, December 9, 2009.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Paul G. Kirk, Jr., a Senator from the Commonwealth of 
     Massachusetts, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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