[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 1 (Thursday, January 3, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S13]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 4:09 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, 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 Paul D. Irving of the State of Florida, be, 
and is hereby, chosen Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, 
and that Daniel J. Strodel of the District of Columbia, be, and is 
hereby chosen Chief Administrative Officer of the House of 
Representatives, and that Father Patrick J. Conroy of the State of 
Florida, 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 John A. Boehner, a Representative 
from the State of Ohio, 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 Thirteenth Congress.
  The message further announced that a committee of two 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.

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