[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 17355]
[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, November 15, 2011.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Jeanne Shaheen, a Senator from the State of New Hampshire, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Daniel K. Inouye,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mrs. SHAHEEN thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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