[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17472]
[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 legislative clerk read as follows:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                 Washington, DC, November 4, 2010.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, section 3, of the Standing 
     Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable John D. 
     Rockefeller IV, a Senator from the State of West Virginia, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Daniel K. Inouye,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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