[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13504]
[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, September 10, 2012.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Richard Blumenthal, a Senator from the State of Connecticut, 
     to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Daniel K. Inouye,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. BLUMENTHAL thereupon assumed the chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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