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CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT
The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate a certificate of appointment to fill the unexpired term created by the resignation of former Senator Benjamin Sasse of Nebraska. The certificate, the Chair is advised, is in the form suggested by the Senate. Hearing no objection, the reading of the certificate will be waived, and it will be printed in full in the Record.
There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:
State of Nebraska
CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT
To the President of the Senate of the United States:
This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the State of Nebraska, I, Jim Pillen, the Governor of said State, do hereby appoint Pete Ricketts, a Senator from said State to represent said State in the Senate of the United States until the vacancy therein caused by the resignation of Benjamin Sasse, is filled by election as provided by law.
Witness: His excellency our Governor Jim Pillen, and our seal hereto affixed at the State Capitol, Lincoln Nebraska, this 12th day of January, in the year of our Lord 2023.
By the Governor:
Jim Pillen,
Governor.
Robert B. Evnen,
Secretary of State.
[State Seal Affixed]
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 169, No. 14
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