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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 senior assistant executive clerk read the following letter:

                                                      U.S. SENATE,


                                        President pro tempore,

                                     Washington, DC, June 9, 2025.
     To the Senate:
  Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable Ted Budd, a Senator from the 
State of North Carolina, to perform the duties of the Chair.
                                                   Chuck Grassley,
                                            President pro tempore.

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

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