[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H106]
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF THE 
                        ASSEMBLY OF THE CONGRESS

  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, your committee appointed on the part of the 
House to join a like committee on the part of the Senate to notify the 
President of the United States that a quorum of each House has been 
assembled and is ready to receive any communication that he may be 
pleased to make has performed that duty.
  Mr. Speaker, I might point out that the committee consisted of myself 
and the minority leader, the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt]. We 
had a pleasant conversation with the President. I am sure he will be 
communicating to us later.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield, if he should wish, to the minority leader, the 
gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt], for any remarks he would like 
to make.
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  This call was a tradition which we have usually fulfilled. We 
fulfilled it earlier today or yesterday with the gentleman from Texas. 
We did inform the President, as we are required to do, that the House 
is seated, we have elected officers, elected a Speaker, and that we 
were ready for legislative action, and I believe we are having a 
meeting later today with the President and the bipartisan leadership.

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