[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16285]
[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. Inouye).
  The bill clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                               Washington, DC, September 23, 2010.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of Rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Kirsten Gillibrand, a Senator from the State of New York, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Daniel K. Inouye,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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