[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 2 (Thursday, January 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H76]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   APPOINTMENT OF TEMPORARY CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER OF HOUSE OF 
                            REPRESENTATIVES

  The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the provisions of section 208(a) of the 
Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 75a-1(a)), the Chair 
appoints Jeff Trandahl of Virginia to act as and to exercise 
temporarily the duties of Chief Administrative Officer of the House of 
Representatives.
  Mr. Trandahl appeared at the bar of the House and took the oath of 
office, as follows:
  Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the 
Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and 
domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; 
that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or 
purpose of evasion, and that you will well and faithfully discharge the 
duties of the office on which you are about to enter. So help you God.

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