[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4519]
[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 assistant legislative clerk read the following letter.

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                   Washington, DC, March 22, 2013.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Angus S. King, a Senator from the State of Maine, to perform 
     the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Patrick J. Leahy,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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