[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 5, 2011)]
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                        House of Representatives

  This being the day fixed by Public Law 111-289, pursuant to the 20th 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, for the meeting of 
the 112th Congress of the United States, the Representatives-elect met 
in their Hall, and at noon were called to order by the Clerk of the 
House of Representatives, Hon. Lorraine C. Miller.
  The Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin offered the following prayer:
  Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful believers. 
Enkindle within them the fire of Divine Love; that they may be truly 
open to respond to Your Word and the needs of Your people.
  Lord, send forth Your spirit and renew the face of the Earth. May the 
spirit of the living God descend upon this Chamber; that from here may 
come forth good news for the poor, healing for the broken-hearted, and 
renewed hope in the Nation. Let there go forth a proclamation to the 
people that captivity is ended, and the action of true politics will 
set this Nation free.
  By setting single-minded self-interest aside in the search for the 
common good, may a just society flourish with the gifts of Your spirit 
and be recognized by others for its equal justice, unity, and peace.
  Lord, may the 112th Congress of the United States of America be an 
instrument of Your goodness with abiding laws embraced and clarity in 
policy statements, reaching beyond institutional thinking and public 
opinion polls. May every human life in this country be renewed with 
dignity and purpose so we may truly glory in Your name as the free 
children of God made in Your image and conformed to Your saving grace, 
both now and forever.
  Amen.


                          Pledge of Allegiance

  The CLERK. The Representatives-elect and their guests will please 
remain standing and join in the Pledge of Allegiance.
  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. As directed by law, the Clerk of the House has prepared 
the official roll of the Representatives-elect.
  Certificates of election covering 435 seats in the 112th 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 accord 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 State, 
beginning with the State of Alabama, to determine whether a quorum is 
present.
  Representatives-elect will have a minimum of 15 minutes to record 
their presence by electronic device.
  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''--434

                                ALABAMA

     Aderholt
     Bachus
     Bonner
     Brooks
     Roby
     Rogers
     Sewell

                                 ALASKA

       
     Young
       

                                ARIZONA

     Flake
     Franks
     Giffords
     Gosar
     Grijalva
     Pastor
     Quayle
     Schweikert

                                ARKANSAS

     Crawford
     Griffin
     Ross
     Womack

                               CALIFORNIA

     Baca
     Bass
     Bilbray
     Becerra
     Berman
     Bono Mack
     Calvert
     Campbell
     Capps
     Cardoza
     Chu
     Costa
     Davis
     Denham
     Dreier
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Filner
     Gallegly
     Garamendi
     Harman
     Herger
     Honda
     Hunter
     Issa
     Lee
     Lewis
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McClintock
     McKeon
     McNerney
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Napolitano
     Nunes
     Pelosi
     Richardson
     Rohrabacher
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schiff
     Sherman
     Speier
     Stark
     Thompson
     Waters
     Waxman
     Woolsey

                                COLORADO

     Coffman
     DeGette
     Gardner
     Lamborn
     Perlmutter
     Polis
     Tipton

                              CONNECTICUT

     Courtney
     DeLauro
     Himes
     Larson
     Murphy

                                DELAWARE

       
     Carney
       

                                FLORIDA

     Adams
     Bilirakis
     Brown
     Buchanan
     Castor
     Crenshaw
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Hastings
     Mack
     Mica
     Miller
     Nugent
     Posey
     Rivera
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Southerland
     Stearns
     Wasserman Schultz
     Webster
     West
     Wilson
     Young

                                GEORGIA

     Barrow
     Bishop
     Broun
     Gingrey
     Graves
     Johnson
     Kingston
     Lewis
     Price
     Scott, Austin
     Scott, David
     Westmoreland
     Woodall

                                 HAWAII

     Hanabusa
     Hirono
       

                                 IDAHO

     Labrador
     Simpson
       

                                ILLINOIS

     Biggert
     Costello
     Davis
     Dold
     Gutierrez
     Hultgren
     Jackson
     Johnson
     Kinzinger
     Lipinski
     Manzullo
     Quigley
     Roskam

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     Rush
     Schakowsky
     Schilling
     Schock
     Shimkus
     Walsh

                                INDIANA

     Bucshon
     Burton
     Carson
     Donnelly
     Pence
     Rokita
     Stutzman
     Visclosky
     Young

                                  IOWA

     Boswell
     Braley
     King
     Latham
     Loebsack

                                 KANSAS

     Huelskamp
     Jenkins
     Pompeo
     Yoder

                                KENTUCKY

     Chandler
     Davis
     Guthrie
     Rogers
     Whitfield
     Yarmuth

                               LOUISIANA

     Alexander
     Boustany
     Cassidy
     Fleming
     Landry
     Richmond
     Scalise

                                 MAINE

     Michaud
     Pingree
       

                                MARYLAND

     Bartlett
     Cummings
     Edwards
     Harris
     Hoyer
     Ruppersberger
     Sarbanes
     Van Hollen

                             MASSACHUSETTS

     Capuano
     Frank
     Keating
     Lynch
     Markey
     McGovern
     Neal
     Olver
     Tierney
     Tsongas

                                MICHIGAN

     Amash
     Benishek
     Camp
     Clarke
     Conyers
     Dingell
     Huizenga
     Kildee
     Levin
     McCotter
     Miller
     Peters
     Rogers
     Upton
     Walberg

                               MINNESOTA

     Bachmann
     Cravaack
     Ellison
     Kline
     McCollum
     Paulsen
     Peterson
     Walz

                              MISSISSIPPI

     Harper
     Nunnelee
     Palazzo
     Thompson

                                MISSOURI

     Akin
     Carnahan
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Emerson
     Graves
     Hartzler
     Long
     Luetkemeyer

                                MONTANA

       
     Rehberg
       

                                NEBRASKA

     Fortenberry
     Smith
     Terry

                                 NEVADA

     Berkley
     Heck
     Heller

                             NEW HAMPSHIRE

     Bass
     Guinta
       

                               NEW JERSEY

     Andrews
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Holt
     Lance
     LoBiondo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Rothman
     Runyan
     Sires
     Smith

                               NEW MEXICO

     Heinrich
     Lujan
     Pearce

                                NEW YORK

     Ackerman
     Bishop
     Buerkle
     Clarke
     Crowley
     Engel
     Gibson
     Grimm
     Hanna
     Hayworth
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Israel
     King
     Lee
     Lowey
     Maloney
     McCarthy
     Meeks
     Nadler
     Owens
     Rangel
     Reed
     Serrano
     Slaughter
     Tonko
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Weiner

                             NORTH CAROLINA

     Butterfield
     Coble
     Ellmers
     Foxx
     Jones
     Kissell
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     Miller
     Myrick
     Price
     Shuler
     Watt

                              NORTH DAKOTA

       
     Berg
       

                                  OHIO

     Austria
     Boehner
     Chabot
     Fudge
     Gibbs
     Johnson
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Kucinich
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Renacci
     Ryan
     Schmidt
     Stivers
     Sutton
     Tiberi
     Turner

                                OKLAHOMA

     Boren
     Cole
     Lankford
     Lucas
     Sullivan

                                 OREGON

     Blumenauer
     Schrader
     Walden
     Wu

                              PENNSYLVANIA

     Altmire
     Barletta
     Brady
     Critz
     Dent
     Doyle
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Gerlach
     Holden
     Kelly
     Marino
     Meehan
     Murphy
     Pitts
     Platts
     Schwartz
     Shuster
     Thompson

                              RHODE ISLAND

     Cicilline
     Langevin
       

                             SOUTH CAROLINA

     Clyburn
     Duncan
     Gowdy
     Mulvaney
     Scott
     Wilson

                              SOUTH DAKOTA

       
     Noem
       

                               TENNESSEE

     Black
     Blackburn
     Cohen
     Cooper
     DesJarlais
     Duncan
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Roe

                                 TEXAS

     Barton
     Brady
     Burgess
     Canseco
     Carter
     Conaway
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Doggett
     Farenthold
     Flores
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Granger
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Hall
     Hensarling
     Hinojosa
     Jackson Lee
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Marchant
     McCaul
     Neugebauer
     Olson
     Paul
     Poe
     Reyes
     Sessions
     Smith
     Thornberry

                                  UTAH

     Bishop
     Chaffetz
     Matheson

                                VERMONT

       
     Welch
       

                                VIRGINIA

     Cantor
     Connolly
     Forbes
     Goodlatte
     Griffith
     Hurt
     Moran
     Rigell
     Scott
     Wittman
     Wolf

                               WASHINGTON

     Dicks
     Hastings
     Herrera Beutler
     Inslee
     Larsen
     McDermott
     McMorris Rodgers
     Reichert
     Smith

                             WEST VIRGINIA

     Capito
     McKinley
     Rahall

                               WISCONSIN

     Baldwin
     Duffy
     Kind
     Moore
     Petri
     Ribble
     Ryan
     Sensenbrenner

                                WYOMING

       
     Lummis
       

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  The CLERK. The quorum call discloses that 434 Representatives-elect 
have responded to their name. A quorum is present.

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