[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2293]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair lays before the Senate the 
certificate of appointment to fill the vacancy created by the 
resignation of Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama. The certificate, the 
Chair is advised, is in the form suggested by the Senate.
  If there be no objection, the reading of the certificate will be 
waived and it will be printed in full in the Record.
  There being no objection, the certificate was ordered to be printed 
in the Record, as follows:


                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me 
     by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
     State of Alabama, I, Robert Bentley, Governor of said State, 
     do hereby appoint Luther Strange, a Senator from said State, 
     to represent the State of Alabama in the Senate of the United 
     States until the vacancy therein caused by the resignation of 
     United States Senator Jeff Sessions, is filled by election as 
     provided by law.
       Witness: His Excellency our Governor, Robert Bentley, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Montgomery, Alabama, this 9th day 
     of February, 2017, at 8:20 o'clock, CST, in the year of our 
     Lord 2017.
           By the Governor:
                                                   Robert Bentley,
                                                         Governor.
           Attested:
                                                  John H. Merrill,
                                               Secretary of State.
     [State Seal Affixed]

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