[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 1 (Thursday, January 4, 2007)]
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                        House of Representatives

  This being the day fixed by the 20th amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States and Public Law 109-447 for the meeting of the 
Congress of the United States, the Members-elect of the 110th Congress 
met in their Hall, and at noon were called to order by the Clerk of the 
House of Representatives, Hon. Karen L. Haas.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Today is built upon all the yesterdays and contains the promise of 
all the tomorrows.
  Lord God, You are the eternal author of all creation and every age. 
You are the same yesterday, today and forever. Be present to us now. Be 
gracious and bless all those duly elected by their districts who gather 
today to form the House of the people as the 110th Congress of the 
United States of America for the governance of our beloved Nation.
  Together, may they know forthright debate and civil discourse, enact 
quality legislation and persevere in representing the diversity and the 
will of the people in addressing the priority issues facing the Nation 
today.
  Bless the families of these Representatives, granting them 
forbearance and understanding of the public service implied by this 
undertaking.
  Lord, may the 110th Congress of the United States read the signs of 
the times and seize this moment to create a history that will reflect 
the values of Your kingdom here on Earth and thereby unite this Nation 
and reveal to peoples around the world the dignity and the glory of 
being the free children of God. For to You be the honor, the glory and 
the power, now and forever. Amen.
  At the request of the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, I am pleased to 
introduce the Reverend Stephen A. Privett, President of the University 
of San Francisco, for an additional prayer.
  The Reverend Stephen A. Privett, President, University of San 
Francisco, San Francisco, California, offered the following prayer:
  I recall this morning the story of a poor mother of five children. 
When she was asked which of her children she loved the most, she did 
not answer the expected, ``I love them all the same.'' Rather, she bent 
down and scooped up into her arms a young child with obviously 
crippling disabilities. ``This one,'' she said, ``because he needs me 
the most.''
  Let us pray:
  God of compassion and mercy, we pray that the new leadership of this 
Congress and all of its Members will write into law the story of a 
country that measures its success by God's standard; by how well it 
cares for the weakest and most vulnerable among us.
  We pray for the legislators of this 110th Congress, that they may 
challenge, inspire and lead us to put aside self-interest and pursue 
the common good of all the people of this great Nation of ours, 
especially of those ``who need us the most.'' Amen.


                          Pledge of Allegiance

  The CLERK. The Members-elect and their guests will please remain 
standing and join in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
  The Clerk 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.

  The CLERK. Members-elect, this is the day fixed by the 20th amendment 
to the Constitution and Public Law 109-447 for the meeting of the 110th 
Congress and, as the law directs, the Clerk of the House has prepared 
the official roll of the Representatives-elect.
  Certificates of election covering 435 seats in the 110th Congress 
have been received by the Clerk of the House, and the names of those 
persons whose credentials show that they were regularly elected as 
Representatives in accordance with the laws of their respective States 
or of the United States will be called.
  The Representatives-elect will record their presence by electronic 
device and their names will be reported in alphabetical order by 
States, beginning with the State of Alabama, to determine whether a 
quorum is present.
  Representatives-elect who have not obtained their voting ID cards may 
do so now in the Speaker's lobby.
  The call was taken by electronic device, and the following 
Representatives-elect responded to their names:

                              [Roll No. 1]

                       ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--435

                                ALABAMA

     Aderholt
     Bachus
     Bonner
     Cramer
     Davis
     Everett
     Rogers

                                 ALASKA

       
     Young
       

                                ARIZONA

     Flake
     Franks
     Giffords
     Grijalva
     Mitchell
     Pastor
     Renzi
     Shadegg

                                ARKANSAS

     Berry
     Boozman
     Ross
     Snyder

                               CALIFORNIA

     Baca
     Becerra
     Berman
     Bilbray
     Bono
     Calvert
     Campbell
     Capps
     Cardoza
     Costa
     Davis
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Filner
     Gallegly
     Harman
     Herger
     Honda
     Hunter
     Issa
     Lantos
     Lee
     Lewis
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McKeon
     McNerney
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Napolitano
     Nunes
     Pelosi
     Radanovich
     Rohrabacher
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schiff
     Sherman
     Solis
     Stark

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     Tauscher
     Thompson
     Waters
     Watson
     Waxman
     Woolsey

                                COLORADO

     DeGette
     Lamborn
     Musgrave
     Perlmutter
     Salazar
     Tancredo
     Udall

                              CONNECTICUT

     Courtney
     DeLauro
     Larson
     Murphy
     Shays

                                DELAWARE

       
     Castle
       

                                FLORIDA

     Bilirakis
     Boyd
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Castor
     Crenshaw
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Feeney
     Hastings
     Keller
     Klein
     Mack
     Mahoney
     Meek
     Mica
     Miller
     Putnam
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Stearns
     Wasserman Schultz
     Weldon
     Wexler
     Young

                                GEORGIA

     Barrow
     Bishop
     Deal
     Gingrey
     Johnson
     Kingston
     Lewis
     Linder
     Marshall
     Norwood
     Price
     Scott
     Westmoreland

                                 HAWAII

     Abercrombie
     Hirono
       

                                 IDAHO

     Sali
     Simpson
       

                                ILLINOIS

     Bean
     Biggert
     Costello
     Davis
     Emanuel
     Gutierrez
     Hare
     Hastert
     Jackson
     Johnson
     Kirk
     LaHood
     Lipinski
     Manzullo
     Roskam
     Rush
     Schakowsky
     Shimkus
     Weller

                                INDIANA

     Burton
     Buyer
     Carson
     Donnelly
     Ellsworth
     Hill
     Pence
     Souder
     Visclosky

                                  IOWA

     Boswell
     Braley
     King
     Latham
     Loebsack

                                 KANSAS

     Boyda
     Moore
     Moran
     Tiahrt

                                KENTUCKY

     Chandler
     Davis
     Lewis
     Rogers
     Whitfield
     Yarmuth

                               LOUISIANA

     Alexander
     Baker
     Boustany
     Jefferson
     Jindal
     McCrery
     Melancon

                                 MAINE

     Allen
     Michaud
       

                                MARYLAND

     Bartlett
     Cummings
     Gilchrest
     Hoyer
     Ruppersberger
     Sarbanes
     Van Hollen
     Wynn

                             MASSACHUSETTS

     Capuano
     Delahunt
     Frank
     Lynch
     Markey
     McGovern
     Meehan
     Neal
     Olver
     Tierney

                                MICHIGAN

     Camp
     Conyers
     Dingell
     Ehlers
     Hoekstra
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Knollenberg
     Levin
     McCotter
     Miller
     Rogers
     Stupak
     Upton
     Walberg

                               MINNESOTA

     Bachmann
     Ellison
     Kline
     McCollum
     Oberstar
     Peterson
     Ramstad
     Walz

                              MISSISSIPPI

     Pickering
     Taylor
     Thompson
     Wicker

                                MISSOURI

     Akin
     Blunt
     Carnahan
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Emerson
     Graves
     Hulshof
     Skelton

                                MONTANA

       
     Rehberg
       

                                NEBRASKA

     Fortenberry
     Smith
     Terry

                                 NEVADA

     Berkley
     Heller
     Porter

                             NEW HAMPSHIRE

     Hodes
     Shea-Porter
       

                               NEW JERSEY

     Andrews
     Ferguson
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Holt
     LoBiondo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Rothman
     Saxton
     Sires
     Smith

                               NEW MEXICO

     Pearce
     Udall
     Wilson

                                NEW YORK

     Ackerman
     Arcuri
     Bishop
     Clarke
     Crowley
     Engel
     Fossella
     Gillibrand
     Hall
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Israel
     King
     Kuhl
     Lowey
     Maloney
     McCarthy
     McHugh
     McNulty
     Meeks
     Nadler
     Rangel
     Reynolds
     Serrano
     Slaughter
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Walsh
     Weiner

                             NORTH CAROLINA

     Butterfield
     Coble
     Etheridge
     Foxx
     Hayes
     Jones
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     Miller
     Myrick
     Price
     Shuler
     Watt

                              NORTH DAKOTA

       
     Pomeroy
       

                                  OHIO

     Boehner
     Chabot
     Gillmor
     Hobson
     Jones
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Kucinich
     LaTourette
     Pryce
     Regula
     Ryan
     Schmidt
     Space
     Sutton
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Wilson

                                OKLAHOMA

     Boren
     Cole
     Fallin
     Lucas
     Sullivan

                                 OREGON

     Blumenauer
     DeFazio
     Hooley
     Walden
     Wu

                              PENNSYLVANIA

     Altmire
     Brady
     Carney
     Dent
     Doyle
     English
     Fattah
     Gerlach
     Holden
     Kanjorski
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murphy, Tim
     Murtha
     Peterson
     Pitts
     Platts
     Schwartz
     Sestak
     Shuster

                              RHODE ISLAND

     Kennedy
     Langevin
       

                             SOUTH CAROLINA

     Barrett
     Brown
     Clyburn
     Inglis
     Spratt
     Wilson

                              SOUTH DAKOTA

       
     Herseth
       

                               TENNESSEE

     Blackburn
     Cohen
     Cooper
     Davis, David
     Davis, Lincoln
     Duncan
     Gordon
     Tanner
     Wamp

                                 TEXAS

     Barton
     Brady
     Burgess
     Carter
     Conaway
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Granger
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Hall
     Hensarling
     Hinojosa
     Jackson-Lee
     Johnson, E.B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Lampson
     Marchant
     McCaul
     Neugebauer
     Ortiz
     Paul
     Poe
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Sessions
     Smith
     Thornberry

                                  UTAH

     Bishop
     Cannon
     Matheson

                                VERMONT

       
     Welch
       

                                VIRGINIA

     Boucher
     Cantor
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Tom
     Drake
     Forbes
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Moran
     Scott
     Wolf

                               WASHINGTON

     Baird
     Dicks
     Hastings
     Inslee
     Larsen
     McDermott
     McMorris Rodgers
     Reichert
     Smith

                             WEST VIRGINIA

     Capito
     Mollohan
     Rahall

                               WISCONSIN

     Baldwin
     Kagen
     Kind
     Moore
     Obey
     Petri
     Ryan
     Sensenbrenner

                                WYOMING

       
     Cubin
       

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  The CLERK. The quorum call discloses that 435 Representatives-elect 
have responded to their name. A quorum is present.

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