[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 23]
[Senate]
[Page 31620]
[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, December 13, 2009.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Mark Udall, a Senator from the State of Colorado, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Robert C. Byrd,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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