[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17486]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION AND CREDENTIALS

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the certificates 
of election to fill the unexpired terms for the States of Delaware and 
West Virginia. The certificates, the Chair is advised, are in the form 
suggested by the Senate.
  If there is no objection, the reading of the certificates will be 
waived and they will be printed in full in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                           State of Delaware

                          Executive Department

                                 Dover


                              certificate

     To All Persons To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greetings:
       Whereas, an election was held in the State of Delaware, on 
     Tuesday, the second day of November. in the year of our Lord 
     two thousand ten, that being the Tuesday next after the first 
     Monday in said month, in accordance with the provisions of 
     the Constitution and Laws of the State of Delaware, in that 
     behalf, for the purpose of choosing by ballot a Senator for 
     the people of said State in the United States Senate for the 
     unexpired term caused by the resignation of Joseph R. Biden, 
     Jr., said term ending at noon on the 3d day of January, 2015.
       And Whereas, the official certificates or returns of said 
     election, held in the several counties of the said State. in 
     due manner made out, signed and executed, have been delivered 
     to me according to the laws of the said State, by the 
     Superior Court of said counties; and having examined said 
     returns, and enumerated and ascertained the number of votes 
     for each and every candidate or person voted for, for United 
     States Senate, I have found Christopher A. Coons to be the 
     person highest in vote, and therefore duly elected and chosen 
     United States Senator of this State.
       I, the said Jack A. Markell, Governor aforesaid, in 
     accordance with the provisions of the Act of the General 
     Assembly of this State in that behalf, do hereby, therefore, 
     declare, make known and certify that the said Christopher A. 
     Coons has received the highest vote at the election aforesaid 
     and therefore is the legally elected United States Senator 
     for the State of Delaware.
       Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the said State, 
     the 10th day of November in the year of our Lord two thousand 
     ten and in the year of the Independence of the United States 
     of America two hundred thirty-five.
       By the Governor:
     Jack A. Markell,
       Governor.
     Jeffrey W. Bullock,
       Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]
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                         State of West Virginia

                        Office of the Executive


                              certificate

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that on the Second day of November, 
     2010, Joe Manchin III was duly chosen by the qualified 
     electors of the State of West Virginia a Senator for the 
     unexpired term ending at noon on the 3rd day of January 2013, 
     to fill the vacancy in the representation from said State in 
     the Senate of the United States caused by the death of Robert 
     C. Byrd.
       Witness: His excellency our Governor Joe Manchin III, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Charleston, West Virginia this the 
     Twelfth day of November in the year or our Lord 2010.
       By the Governor:
     Joe Manchin III,
       Governor.
     Natalie E. Tennant,
       Secretary of State.
       [State Seal Affixed]

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