[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 1 (Thursday, January 4, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S32]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 4:04 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Ms. Niland, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
agreed to H. Res. 1, resolving that Karen L. Haas of the State of 
Maryland, be, and is hereby, chosen Clerk of the House of 
Representatives, and that Wilson S. Livingood of the Commonwealth of 
Virginia, be, and is hereby, chosen Sergeant at Arms of the House of 
Representatives, and that James M. Eagen, III, of the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania, be, and is hereby, chosen Chief Administrative Officer of 
the House of Representatives, and that Father Daniel P. Coughlin of the 
State of Illinois, be, and is hereby, chosen Chaplain of the House of 
Representatives.
  The message also announced that the House has agreed to H. Res. 2, 
resolving that the Senate be informed that a quorum of the House of 
Representatives has assembled, that Nancy Pelosi, a Representative from 
the State of California, has been elected Speaker, and Karen L. Haas, a 
citizen of the State of Maryland, has been elected Clerk of the House 
of Representatives of the One Hundred Tenth Congress.
  The message further announced that the House has agreed to H. Res. 3, 
resolving that a committee of 2 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 message also announced that the Speaker appoints as members of 
the committee on the part of the House to join a committee on the part 
of the Senate to notify the President of the United States that a 
quorum of each House has been assembled, and that Congress is ready to 
receive any communication that he may be pleased to make, the gentleman 
from Maryland Mr. Hoyer and the gentleman from Ohio Mr. Boehner.

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