[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8413]
[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 bill clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                     Washington, DC, May 19, 2014.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Mazie K. Hirono, a Senator from the State of Hawaii, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                 Patrick J. Leahy,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Ms. HIRONO thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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