[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18195]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the certificate 
of election to fill the unexpired term for the State of Illinois. 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 Illinois

                          Executive Department


                       certificate of appointment

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to Certify that on the Second day of November, Two 
     Thousand and Ten, Mark Steven Kirk was duly chosen by the 
     qualified electors of the State of Illinois a Senator for the 
     unexpired term ending at noon on the third day of January, 
     Two Thousand and Eleven, to fill the vacancy in the 
     representation from said State in the Senate of the United 
     States caused by the Resignation of then-Senator Barack 
     Obama.
       Witness: His Excellency Our Governor, Pat Quinn, and our 
     seal hereto affixed at the City of Springfield, Illinois, 
     this Twenty-Third day of November, in the year of our Lord 
     Two Thousand and Ten.
       By the Governor:
     Pat Quinn,
       Governor.
     Jesee White,
       Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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