[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6819]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate the certificate 
of appointment to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of former 
Senator John Ensign of Nevada. 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 material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                            State of Nevada

                          Executive Department


                        CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me 
     by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
     State of Nevada, I, Brian Sandoval, the governor of said 
     State, do hereby appoint Dean Heller a Senator from said 
     State to represent said State in the Senate of the United 
     States until the vacancy therein caused by the resignation of 
     John Ensign, is filled by election as provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our governor Brian Sandoval, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Carson City, Nevada, this third 
     day of May, in the year of our Lord 2011.
       By the governor:
     Brian Sandoval,
       Governor.
     Ross Miller,
       Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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