[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5499]
[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 legislative clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                      Washington, DC, May 5, 2016.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     John Hoeven, a Senator from the State of North Dakota, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Orrin G. Hatch,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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