[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11091]
[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, July 14, 2011.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Sheldon Whitehouse, a Senator from the State of Rhode Island, 
     to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Daniel K. Inouye,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. WHITEHOUSE thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Udall of New Mexico). The Senator from 
Rhode Island.

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