[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 6, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Pages S30-S31]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 6:09 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House 
agreed to the following resolutions:

       H. Res. 1. Resolution that Lorraine C. Miller of the State 
     of Texas, be, and is hereby, chosen Clerk of the House of 
     Representatives; That Wilson S. Livingood of the Commonwealth 
     of Virginia, be, and is hereby, chosen Sergeant at Arms of 
     the House of Representatives; That Daniel P. Beard of the 
     State of Maryland 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.
       H. Res. 2. Resolution notifying the Senate that a quorum of 
     the House of Representatives has assembled; that Nancy 
     Pelosi, a

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     Representative from the State of California, has been elected 
     Speaker, than Lorraine C. Miller, a citizen of the State of 
     Texas, has been elected Clerk of the House of Representatives 
     of the One Hundred Eleventh Congress.

  The message also announced that the House has agreed to the following 
concurrent resolution, in which it requests the concurrence of the 
Senate:

       H. Con. Res. 1. Concurrent resolution regarding consent to 
     assemble outside the seat of government.

  The message further 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 assembled, and Congress is ready to receiver 
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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