[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5842]
[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, April 24, 2013.
     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.
                                                 Patrick J. Leahy,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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