[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18225]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate a certificate of 
appointment to fill the vacancy created by the death of the late 
Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii.
  The certificate, the Chair is advised, is in a form suggested by the 
Senate. If there is 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 certificate was ordered to be printed 
in the Record, as follows:

                           Executive Chambers

                                Honolulu


                       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 Hawai`i, I, Neil Abercrombie, the governor of said 
     State, do hereby appoint Brian Schatz a Senator from said 
     State to represent said State in the Senate of the United 
     States until the vacancy therein caused by the death of 
     Daniel K. Inouye, is filled by election as provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our governor Neil Abercrombie, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at the Hawai`i State Capitol this 
     26th day of December, in the year of our Lord 2012.
       By the governor:
     Neil Abercrombie,
       Governor.
     Brian Schatz,
       Lieutenant Governor.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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