[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 1] [Senate] [Page 1] [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. Byrd). The legislative clerk read the following letter: U.S. Senate, President pro tempore, Washington, DC, January 5, 2010. To the Senate: Under the provisions of Rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Mark R. Warner, a Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, to perform the duties of the Chair. Robert C. Byrd, President pro tempore. Mr. WARNER thereupon assumed the Chair as Acting President pro tempore. ____________________