[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 28, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H99]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      OATH OF OFFICE MEMBERS, RESIDENT COMMISSIONER, AND DELEGATES

  The oath of office required by the sixth article of the Constitution 
of the United States, and as provided by section 2 of the act of May 
13, 1884 (23 State.22), to be administered to Members, Resident 
Commissioner, and Delegates of the House of Representatives, the text 
of which is carried in 5 U.S.C. 3331:

       I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support 
     and defend the Constitution of the United States against all 
     enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith 
     and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation 
     freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; 
     and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of 
     the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

has been subscribed to in person and filed in duplicate with the Clerk 
of the House of Representatives by the following Member of the 105th 
Congress, pursuant to the provisions of 2 U.S.C. 25:

       Honorable Vito Fossella, Thirteenth District of New York.

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