[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 7110]
[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 assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                     Washington, DC, May 12, 2011.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Mark Begich, a Senator from the State of Alaska, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Daniel K. Inouye,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. BEGICH thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Nebraska.

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