[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5491]
[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. Hatch).
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                      Washington, DC, May 2, 2016.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Lindsey Graham, a Senator from the State of South Carolina, 
     to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Orrin G. Hatch,
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. GRAHAM thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.

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