[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12556]
[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 bill clerk read the following letter.

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                    Washington, DC, July 30, 2012.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Mark R. Warner, a Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, 
     to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Daniel K. Inouye,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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