[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 963]
[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 the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                 Washington, DC, January 27, 2011.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Tom Udall, a Senator from the State of New Mexico, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Daniel K. Inouye,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. UDALL of New Mexico thereupon assumed the chair as Acting 
President pro tempore.

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