[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 19487]
[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, December 7, 2017.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Luther Strange, a Senator from the State of Alabama, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                  Orrin G. Hatch, 
                                            President pro tempore.

  Mr. STRANGE thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro 
tempore.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Nebraska.

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