[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 6, 2015)]
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                        House of Representatives

  This being the day fixed by Public Law 113-201, pursuant to the 20th 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, for the meeting of 
the 114th 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 113th 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 been given 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 114th 
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 114th 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 accordance 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''--401

                                ALABAMA

     Aderholt
     Brooks
     Byrne
     Palmer
     Roby
     Rogers
     Sewell

                                ARIZONA

     Franks
     Gallego
     Gosar
     Grijalva
     Kirkpatrick
     McSally
     Salmon
     Schweikert
     Sinema

                                ARKANSAS

     Crawford
     Hill
     Westerman
     Womack

                               CALIFORNIA

     Aguilar
     Bass
     Becerra
     Bera
     Brownley
     Calvert
     Capps
     Cardenas
     Chu
     Cook
     Davis
     Denham
     DeSaulnier
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Garamendi
     Hahn
     Honda
     Huffman
     Hunter
     Issa
     Knight
     LaMalfa
     Lee
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McClintock
     McNerney
     Napolitano
     Nunes
     Pelosi
     Peters
     Rohrabacher
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schiff
     Sherman
     Speier
     Swalwell
     Takano
     Thompson
     Torres
     Valadao
     Vargas
     Walters, Mimi

                                COLORADO

     Buck
     Coffman
     DeGette
     Lamborn
     Perlmutter
     Polis
     Tipton

                              CONNECTICUT

     Courtney
     DeLauro
     Esty
     Himes
     Larson

                                DELAWARE

       
     Carney
       

                                FLORIDA

     Bilirakis
     Brown
     Buchanan
     Castor
     Clawson
     Curbelo
     DeSantis
     Deutch
     Diaz-Balart
     Frankel
     Graham
     Hastings
     Jolly
     Miller
     Murphy
     Nugent
     Posey
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Ross
     Wasserman Schultz
     Webster
     Wilson
     Yoho

                                GEORGIA

     Allen
     Bishop
     Carter
     Collins
     Graves
     Hice
     Johnson
     Lewis
     Loudermilk
     Price
     Scott, Austin
     Westmoreland
     Woodall

                                 HAWAII

     Gabbard
     Takai
       

                                 IDAHO

     Labrador
     Simpson
       

                                ILLINOIS

     Bost
     Bustos
     Davis, Danny
     Davis, Rodney
     Dold
     Foster
     Hultgren
     Kelly
     Kinzinger
     Lipinski
     Quigley
     Roskam
     Rush
     Schakowsky
     Schock
     Shimkus

                                INDIANA

     Brooks
     Bucshon
     Carson
     Messer
     Rokita
     Stutzman
     Visclosky
     Walorski
     Young

                                  IOWA

     Blum
     Loebsack
     King
     Young

                                 KANSAS

     Huelskamp
     Jenkins
     Pompeo
     Yoder

                                KENTUCKY

     Barr
     Guthrie
     Massie
     Rogers
     Whitfield
     Yarmuth

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                               LOUISIANA

     Abraham
     Boustany
     Fleming
     Graves
     Richmond
     Scalise

                                 MAINE

     Pingree
     Poliquin
       

                                MARYLAND

     Cummings
     Delaney
     Edwards
     Harris
     Hoyer
     Ruppersberger
     Sarbanes
     Van Hollen

                             MASSACHUSETTS

     Capuano
     Clark
     Keating
     Kennedy
     Lynch
     McGovern
     Moulton
     Neal
     Tsongas

                                MICHIGAN

     Amash
     Benishek
     Bishop
     Conyers
     Dingell
     Huizenga
     Kildee
     Lawrence
     Levin
     Miller
     Moolenaar
     Trott
     Upton
     Walberg

                               MINNESOTA

     Emmer
     Kline
     McCollum
     Paulsen
     Peterson
     Walz

                              MISSISSIPPI

     Harper
     Palazzo
     Thompson

                                MISSOURI

     Clay
     Cleaver
     Graves
     Hartzler
     Long
     Luetkemeyer
     Smith
     Wagner

                                MONTANA

       
     Zinke
       

                                NEBRASKA

     Ashford
     Fortenberry
     Smith

                                 NEVADA

     Amodei
     Hardy
     Heck
     Titus

                             NEW HAMPSHIRE

     Guinta
     Kuster
       

                               NEW JERSEY

     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Lance
     LoBiondo
     MacArthur
     Norcross
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Sires
     Smith
     Watson Coleman

                               NEW MEXICO

     Lujan Grisham
     Lujan, Ben Ray
     Pearce

                                NEW YORK

     Collins
     Gibson
     Jeffries
     Katko
     King
     Reed
     Rice
     Serrano
     Slaughter
     Stefanik
     Zeldin

                             NORTH CAROLINA

     Adams
     Butterfield
     Ellmers
     Foxx
     Holding
     Hudson
     Jones
     McHenry
     Meadows
     Pittenger
     Rouzer
     Walker

                              NORTH DAKOTA

       
     Cramer
       

                                  OHIO

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

                                OKLAHOMA

     Bridenstine
     Cole
     Lucas
     Mullin
     Russell

                                 OREGON

     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     DeFazio
     Schrader
     Walden

                              PENNSYLVANIA

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

                              RHODE ISLAND

       
     Langevin
       

                             SOUTH CAROLINA

     Clyburn
     Duncan
     Mulvaney
     Rice
     Wilson

                              SOUTH DAKOTA

       
     Noem
       

                               TENNESSEE

     Black
     Blackburn
     Cohen
     Cooper
     DesJarlais
     Duncan
     Fincher
     Fleischmann
     Roe

                                 TEXAS

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

                                  UTAH

     Bishop
     Chaffetz
     Love
     Stewart

                                VIRGINIA

     Beyer
     Brat
     Comstock
     Connolly
     Forbes
      Goodlatte
     Griffith
     Hurt
     Rigell
     Scott
     Wittman

                               WASHINGTON

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

                             WEST VIRGINIA

     Jenkins
     McKinley
     Mooney

                               WISCONSIN

     Duffy
     Grothman
     Kind
     Moore
     Pocan
     Ribble
     Ryan
     Sensenbrenner

                                WYOMING

       
     Lummis
       

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

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