[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 1 (Thursday, January 3, 2013)]
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                        House of Representatives

  This being the day fixed by the 20th amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States, for the meeting of the 113th 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. 
Karen L. Haas.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Loving God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  We gather on this most significant day, when once again we celebrate 
the peaceful transition of democratic government. Though many return 
from the 112th Congress, this people's House is a new legislative 
assembly.
  May the service of all the Members here gathered give You glory, and 
acquit well the charge entrusted to them by their fellow citizens.
  Give each Member an abundance of wisdom, knowledge, and 
understanding, that they might know best how to proceed in the work 
they have to do, as well as the courage to act once they have discerned 
where Your Spirit might lead them.
  And may all that is done this day, and all the days of the 113th 
Congress, be for Your greater honor and glory.
  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 113th 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''--429

                                ALABAMA

     Aderholt
     Bachus
     Bonner
     Brooks
     Roby
     Rogers
     Sewell

                                 ALASKA

       
     Young
       

                                ARIZONA

     Barber
     Franks
     Gosar
     Grijalva
     Kirkpatrick
     Pastor
     Salmon
     Schweikert
     Sinema

                                ARKANSAS

     Cotton
     Crawford
     Griffin
     Womack

                               CALIFORNIA

     Bass
     Becerra
     Bera
     Brownley
     Calvert
     Campbell
     Capps
     Cardenas
     Chu
     Cook
     Costa
     Davis
     Denham
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Garamendi
     Hahn
     Honda
     Huffman
     Hunter
     Issa
     LaMalfa
     Lee
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lowenthal
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McClintock
     McKeon
     McNerney
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Napolitano
     Negrete McLeod
     Nunes
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Rohrabacher
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schiff
     Sherman
     Speier
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Thompson
     Valadao
     Vargas
     Waters
     Waxman

                                COLORADO

     Coffman
     DeGette
     Gardner
     Lamborn
     Perlmutter
     Polis
     Tipton

                              CONNECTICUT

     Courtney
     DeLauro
     Esty
     Himes
     Larson

                                DELAWARE

       
     Carney
       

                                FLORIDA

     Bilirakis
     Brown
     Buchanan
     Castor
     Crenshaw
     DeSantis
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Frankel
     Garcia
     Grayson
     Hastings
     Mica
     Miller
     Murphy
     Nugent
     Posey
     Radel
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Southerland
     Wasserman Schultz
     Webster
     Wilson
     Yoho
     Young

                                GEORGIA

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

                                 HAWAII

     Gabbard
     Hanabusa
       

                                 IDAHO

     Labrador
     Simpson
       

                                ILLINOIS

     Bustos
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     Duckworth
     Enyart
     Foster
     Gutierrez
     Hultgren
     Kinzinger
     Quigley
     Roskam
     Rush
     Schakowsky
     Schneider
     Schock
     Shimkus

                                INDIANA

     Brooks
     Bucshon
     Carson
     Messer
     Rokita
     Stutzman
     Visclosky
     Walorski
     Young

                                  IOWA

     Braley
     King
     Latham
     Loebsack

                                 KANSAS

     Huelskamp
     Jenkins
     Pompeo
     Yoder

                                KENTUCKY

     Barr
     Guthrie
     Massie
     Rogers
     Whitfield
     Yarmuth

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                               LOUISIANA

     Alexander
     Boustany
     Cassidy
     Fleming
     Richmond
     Scalise

                                 MAINE

     Michaud
     Pingree
       

                                MARYLAND

     Cummings
     Delaney
     Edwards
     Harris
     Hoyer
     Ruppersberger
     Sarbanes
     Van Hollen

                             MASSACHUSETTS

     Capuano
     Keating
     Kennedy
     Lynch
     Markey
     McGovern
     Neal
     Tierney
     Tsongas

                                MICHIGAN

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

                               MINNESOTA

     Bachmann
     Ellison
     Kline
     McCollum
     Nolan
     Paulsen
     Peterson
     Walz

                              MISSISSIPPI

     Harper
     Nunnelee
     Palazzo
     Thompson

                                MISSOURI

     Clay
     Cleaver
     Emerson
     Graves
     Hartzler
     Long
     Luetkemeyer
     Wagner

                                MONTANA

       
     Daines
       

                                NEBRASKA

     Fortenberry
     Smith
     Terry

                                 NEVADA

     Amodei
     Heck
     Horsford
     Titus

                             NEW HAMPSHIRE

     Kuster
     Shea-Porter
       

                               NEW JERSEY

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

                               NEW MEXICO

     Lujan Grisham
     Lujan, Ben Ray
     Pearce

                                NEW YORK

     Bishop
     Clarke
     Collins
     Crowley
     Engel
     Gibson
     Grimm
     Hanna
     Higgins
     Israel
     Jeffries
     King
     Lowey
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     McCarthy
     Meeks
     Meng
     Nadler
     Owens
     Rangel
     Reed
     Serrano
     Slaughter
     Tonko
     Velazquez

                             NORTH CAROLINA

     Butterfield
     Coble
     Ellmers
     Foxx
     Holding
     Hudson
     Jones
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     Meadows
     Pittenger
     Price
     Watt

                              NORTH DAKOTA

       
     Cramer
       

                                  OHIO

     Beatty
     Boehner
     Chabot
     Fudge
     Gibbs
     Johnson
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kaptur
     Latta
     Renacci
     Ryan
     Stivers
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Wenstrup

                                OKLAHOMA

     Bridenstine
     Cole
     Lankford
     Lucas
     Mullin

                                 OREGON

     Bonamici
     DeFazio
     Schrader
     Walden

                              PENNSYLVANIA

     Barletta
     Brady
     Cartwright
     Dent
     Doyle
     Fattah
     Fitzpatrick
     Gerlach
     Kelly
     Marino
     Meehan
     Murphy
     Perry
     Pitts
     Rothfus
     Schwartz
     Shuster
     Thompson

                              RHODE ISLAND

     Cicilline
     Langevin
       

                             SOUTH CAROLINA

     Clyburn
     Duncan
     Gowdy
     Mulvaney
     Rice
     Wilson

                              SOUTH DAKOTA

       
     Noem
       

                               TENNESSEE

     Black
     Blackburn
     Cohen
     Cooper
     DesJarlais
     Duncan
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Roe

                                 TEXAS

     Barton
     Brady
     Burgess
     Carter
     Castro
     Conaway
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Doggett
     Farenthold
     Flores
     Gallego
     Gohmert
     Granger
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Hall
     Hensarling
     Hinojosa
     Jackson Lee
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Marchant
     McCaul
     Neugebauer
     Olson
     O'Rourke
     Poe
     Sessions
     Smith
     Stockman
     Thornberry
     Veasey
     Vela
     Weber
     Williams

                                  UTAH

     Bishop
     Chaffetz
     Matheson
     Stewart

                                VERMONT

       
     Welch
       

                                VIRGINIA

     Cantor
     Connolly
     Forbes
     Goodlatte
     Griffith
     Hurt
     Moran
     Rigell
     Scott
     Wittman
     Wolf

                               WASHINGTON

     DelBene
     Hastings
     Heck
     Herrera Beutler
     Kilmer
     Larsen
     McDermott
     McMorris Rodgers
     Reichert
     Smith

                             WEST VIRGINIA

     Capito
     McKinley
     Rahall

                               WISCONSIN

     Duffy
     Kind
     Moore
     Petri
     Pocan
     Ribble
     Ryan
     Sensenbrenner

                                WYOMING

       
     Lummis
       

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  The CLERK. Four hundred twenty-nine Representatives-elect have 
recorded their presence. A quorum is present.

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