[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H1-H2]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. 
Montgomery] come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of 
Allegiance.
  Mr. MONTGOMERY led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows:

       I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of 
     America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation 
     under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
     
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                   COMMITTEE TO NOTIFY THE PRESIDENT

  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution (H. Res. 325) 
providing for a committee to notify the President of the assembly of 
the Congress, and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 325

       Resolved, That a committee of two Members be appointed by 
     the Speaker on the part of the House of Representatives to 
     join with a committee on the part of the Senate to notify the 
     President of the United States that a quorum of each House 
     has assembled and Congress is ready to receive any 
     communication that he may be pleased to make.

  The resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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