[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 34 (Thursday, March 23, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1329]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 APPOINTMENT AS CHAPLAIN OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  The SPEAKER. Pursuant to 2 U.S. Code, 75a-1, the Chair appoints 
Father Daniel Coughlin of Illinois to act as and to exercise 
temporarily the duties of Chaplain of the House of Representatives.
  Will Father Coughlin please come forward and take the oath of office.
  Father Daniel Coughlin 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 will take this obligation freely, without any mental 
reservation or purpose of evasion; 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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