[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Pages 13352-13353]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate a certificate of 
appointment to fill the vacancy created by the death of the late 
Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia. The certificate, the Chair is 
advised, is in the form suggested by the Senate.
  If there be no objection, the reading of the certificate will be 
waived, and it will be printed in full in the Record.
  There being no objection, the certificate was ordered to be printed 
in the Record, as follows:

                         State of West Virginia

                        Office of the Executive

                            Joe Manchin III

                                Governor


                       certificate of appointment

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me 
     by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
     State of West Virginia, I Joe Manchin III, the Governor of 
     said State, do hereby appoint Carte

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     Patrick Goodwin a Senator from said State to represent said 
     State in the Senate of the United States until the vacancy 
     therein caused by the death of Robert C. Byrd, is filled by 
     election as provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our Governor Joe Manchin III, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Charleston, West Virginia this the 
     Sixteenth day of July in the year of our Lord 2010.
       By the Governor:
     Joe Manchin III,
       Governor.
     Natalie E. Tennant,
       Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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