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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. Leahy).
The senior assistant legislative clerk read the following letter:
U.S. Senate,
President pro tempore,
Washington, DC, October 18, 2022. To the Senate:
Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Thomas R. Carper, a Senator from the State of Delaware, to perform the duties of the Chair.
Patrick J. Leahy,
President pro tempore.
Mr. CARPER thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro tempore.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 164
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