[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16592]
[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 3, 2011.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provision 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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