[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 6, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S5]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  INFORMING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT A QUORUM OF EACH 
                           HOUSE IS ASSEMBLED

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I have a resolution at the desk and I ask it 
now be considered.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The resolution (S. Res. 1) informing the President of the 
     United States that a quorum of each House is assembled.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the resolution is 
considered and agreed to.
  The resolution (S. Res. 1) was agreed to, as follows:

                               S. Res. 1

       Resolved, That a committee consisting of two Senators be 
     appointed to join such committee as may be appointed by the 
     House of Representatives to wait upon the President of the 
     United States and inform him that a quorum of each House is 
     assembled and that the Congress is ready to receive any 
     communication he may be pleased to make.

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which the 
resolution was agreed to, and it is my understanding my counterpart 
also has a motion to make.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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