APPOINTMENT OF ACTING PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE; Congressional Record Vol. 166, No. 174
(Senate - October 06, 2020)

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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. Grassley).
  The Parliamentarian read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. Senate,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                  Washington, DC, October 6, 2020.
     To the Senate:
  Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Mitch McConnell, a Senator 
from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Chuck Grassley,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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