[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 19156]
[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. Leahy).
  The legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                Washington, DC, December 15, 2013.
     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.
                                                 Patrick J. Leahy,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. WARNER thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting president pro 
tempore.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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