[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2782]
[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, February 16, 2017.
     To the Senate:
       Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the 
     Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable 
     Mike Rounds, a Senator from the State of South Dakota, to 
     perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Orrin G. Hatch,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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