[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 6, 2015)]
[House]
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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
ELECTION OF SPEAKER
The CLERK. Pursuant to law and precedent, the next order of business
is the election of the Speaker of the
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House of Representatives for the 114th Congress.
Nominations are now in order.
The Clerk recognizes the gentlewoman from Washington (Mrs. McMorris
Rodgers).
Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS. Madam Clerk, it is an honor to address the
House at the start of the 114th Congress. If there is one thing I have
learned as a legislator, it is that we cannot achieve great things
alone. It takes a willingness to come together, find common ground, and
advance solutions that make people's lives better. In that spirit, I
welcome America's new Congress, one that will chart the path towards a
government that is more open, transparent, and trustworthy.
To lead us on this path, the Republican Conference has nominated a
man of great character and conviction. The second oldest of 12
children, he grew up mopping floors and waiting tables at his family's
tavern. He ran a successful small business. He was elected to the Ohio
State House and then this House, where he served as committee chairman,
Republican Conference chairman, minority leader, majority leader, and
Speaker. He is a reformer who works every day to make government more
accountable to the people. For all of this, he calls himself a regular
guy with a big job; and that job, he says, is to listen, because if we
listen to the people, listen to one another, there is no telling what
we can accomplish together for the future of this great country.
Madam Clerk, as chair of the Republican Conference and by unanimous
vote of that conference, I present for election to the office of
Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 114th Congress the name
of the Honorable John A. Boehner, our dear friend and colleague, a
Representative-elect from the State of Ohio.
The CLERK. The Clerk now recognizes the gentleman from California
(Mr. Becerra).
Mr. BECERRA. Madam Clerk, first I would like to recognize each and
every Member who has taken to this floor to represent the people of the
United States and say congratulations to them and to all of their loved
ones who are here witnessing this solemn event where we will have an
opportunity to lead our country. We say congratulations to them as
well.
Madam Clerk, I have the distinct pleasure of nominating someone who
is a proven leader, someone who already will go down in history as one
of the most effective Speakers the House of Representatives has ever
seen, someone who has shown that it doesn't take a man to get the job
done, that it can be done by an American who is devoted to this
country, someone who knows her heritage, someone who has worked
tirelessly for the American people, but someone who understands first
and foremost that the job of this House is to get things done.
I have been empowered, Madam Clerk, to nominate on behalf of all
working Americans, those Americans who still believe in the American
Dream, to put the name of the gentlewoman from San Francisco who will
serve again in the House of Representatives, put her name forward for
the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 114th
Congress. I, therefore, at this point put before you the name of Nancy
Pelosi to serve as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The CLERK. The names of the Honorable John A. Boehner, a
Representative-elect from the State of Ohio, and the Honorable Nancy
Pelosi, a Representative-elect from the State of California, have been
placed in nomination.
Are there further nominations?
Mr. MASSIE. Madam Clerk, I present for election to the office of
Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 114th Congress the name
of the Honorable Ted Yoho, a great defender of the Constitution and
Representative-elect from the great State of Florida.
The CLERK. Are there further nominations?
Mr. BRIDENSTINE. Madam Clerk, I present for the election of the
office of Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 114th
Congress the name of Judge Louie Gohmert, a Representative-elect from
the great State of Texas.
Madam Clerk, Judge Gohmert proudly serves the First District of
Texas. He is serving his fifth term in the House of Representatives.
Prior to being elected to serve in Congress, he was elected to three
terms as district judge in Smith County and was appointed by Governor
Rick Perry to be the chief justice of the 12th Court of Appeals.
Madam Clerk, this is not about Judge Gohmert; it is about
establishing a strong check on the executive branch. I think a quote
applies to my friend Louie Gohmert. It is from Mark Twain. He said:
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man,
and he is brave and hated and scorned. When his cause
succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be
a patriot.
My constituents from the First District of Oklahoma are looking for
this kind of patriot.
The CLERK. Are there further nominations?
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Mr. KING of Iowa. Madam Clerk, I rise to place in a nomination for
election to the constitutional office of Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives a man who has served as speaker of the
statehouse, a man who respects this institution, a man who understands
that power and principle cannot coexist without recognizing the
sanctity of each Member's vote in this House of Representatives, a man
who will restore this institution of the House of Representatives. I
place in nomination the name of Daniel Webster, a Representative-elect
from the great State of Florida.
The CLERK. Are there further nominations?
The names of the Honorable John A. Boehner, a Representative-elect
from the State of Ohio; the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, a Representative-
elect from the State of California; the Honorable Ted Yoho, a
Representative-elect from the State of Florida; the Honorable Louie
Gohmert, a Representative-elect from the State of Texas; and the
Honorable Daniel Webster, a Representative-elect from the State of
Florida, have been placed in nomination.
Are there further nominations?
There being no further nominations, the Clerk appoints the following
tellers:
The gentlewoman from Michigan (Mrs. Miller);
The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Brady);
The gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur); and
The gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. Ros-Lehtinen).
The tellers will come forward and take their seats at the desk in
front of the Speaker's rostrum.
The roll will now be called, and those responding to their names will
indicate by surname the nominee of their choosing.
The Reading Clerk will now call the roll.
The tellers having taken their places, the House proceeded to vote
for the Speaker.
The following is the result of the vote:
[Roll No. 2]
BOEHNER--216
Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Denham
Dent
DeSantis
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Emmer
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gibbs
Goodlatte
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hice (GA)
Hill
Holding
Hudson
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurd (TX)
Hurt (VA)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jordan
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Loudermilk
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meehan
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Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Newhouse
Noem
Nunes
Olson
Palazzo
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Poliquin
Pompeo
Price (GA)
Ratcliffe
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney (FL)
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schock
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walker
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Wenstrup
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke
PELOSI--164
Adams
Aguilar
Ashford
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boyle (PA)
Brady (PA)
Brown (FL)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu (CA)
Clark (MA)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Courtney
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSaulnier
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle (PA)
Edwards
Ellison
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hahn
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu (CA)
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Moore
Moulton
Murphy (FL)
Napolitano
Neal
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Quigley
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Watson Coleman
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
WEBSTER (FL)--12
Blum
Garrett
Gosar
Huelskamp
Jones
King (IA)
Meadows
Nugent
Posey
Rigell
Stutzman
Webster (FL)
GOHMERT--3
Bridenstine
Gohmert
Weber (TX)
YOHO--2
Massie
Yoho
JORDAN--2
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January 6, 2015, on page H4, the following appeared: YOHO--2
Massie Yoho JORDON--2 Amash DesJarlais
The online version should be corrected to read: YOHO--2 Massie
Yoho JORDAN--2 Amash DesJarlais
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Amash
DesJarlais
DUNCAN (SC)--1
Brat
HON. RAND PAUL--1
Clawson (FL)
COLIN POWELL--1
Cooper
GOWDY--1
Duncan (SC)
MCCARTHY--1
Gibson
COOPER--1
Graham
DEFAZIO--1
Lipinski
HON. JEFF SESSIONS--1
Palmer
LEWIS--1
Sinema
PRESENT--1
Babin
NOT VOTING--25
Boehner
Carter (TX)
Cicilline
Clarke (NY)
Costa
Crowley
Duckworth
Engel
Gowdy
Higgins
Lowey
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Meeks
Meng
Nadler
Nolan
Nunnelee
Price (NC)
Rangel
Tonko
Velazquez
Waters, Maxine
Welch
Young (AK)
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January 6, 2015, on page H4, the following appeared: NOT
VOTING--25 Carter (TX) Cicilline Clarke (NY) Costa Crowley
Duckworth Engel Gowdy Higgins Lowey Maloney, Carolyn Maloney, Sean
Meeks Meng Nadler Nolan Nunnelee Price (NC) Rangel Tonko
VelaAE1zquez Waters, Maxine Welch Young (AK)
The online version should be corrected to read: NOT VOTING--25
Boehner Carter (TX) Cicilline Clarke (NY) Costa Crowley Duckworth
Engel Gowdy Higgins Lowey Maloney, Carolyn Maloney, Sean Meeks
Meng Nadler Nolan Nunnelee Price (NC) Rangel Tonko
VelaAE1zquez Waters, Maxine Welch Young (AK)
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The CLERK. The tellers agree in their tallies that the total number
of votes cast is 408, of which the Honorable John A. Boehner of the
State of Ohio has received 216, the Honorable Nancy Pelosi of the State
of California has received 164, the Honorable Daniel Webster of the
State of Florida has received 12, the Honorable Louie Gohmert of the
State of Texas has received 3, the Honorable Ted S. Yoho of the State
of Florida has received 2, the Honorable Jim Jordan of the State of
Ohio has received 2, the Honorable Jim Cooper of the State of Tennessee
has received 1, the Honorable Peter A. DeFazio of the State of Oregon
has received 1, the Honorable Jeff Duncan of the State of South
Carolina has received 1, the Honorable Trey Gowdy of the State of South
Carolina has received 1, the Honorable John Lewis of the State of
Georgia has received 1, the Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the State of
California has received 1, the Honorable Rand Paul of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky has received 1, the Honorable Jeff Sessions of the State of
Alabama has received 1, and the Honorable Colin Powell has received 1,
with 1 recorded as ``present.''
Therefore, the Honorable John A. Boehner of the State of Ohio, having
received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected Speaker of the
House of Representatives for the 114th Congress.
The Clerk appoints the following committee to escort the Speaker-
elect to the chair:
The gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy)
The gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi)
The gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise)
The gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer)
The gentlewoman from Washington (Mrs. McMorris Rodgers)
The gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Clyburn)
The gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden)
The gentleman from California (Mr. Becerra)
The gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Messer)
The gentleman from New York (Mr. Israel)
The gentlewoman from Kansas (Ms. Jenkins)
The gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro)
The gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx)
The gentlewoman from Maryland (Ms. Edwards)
The gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Mimi Walters)
The gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Van Hollen)
The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sessions)
The gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Ben Ray Lujan)
The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McHenry)
The gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Adams)
And the Members of the Ohio delegation:
Ms. Kaptur
Mr. Chabot
Mr. Tiberi
Mr. Ryan
Mr. Turner
Mr. Jordan
Mr. Latta
Ms. Fudge
Mr. Gibbs
Mr. Johnson
Mr. Renacci
Mr. Stivers
Mrs. Beatty
Mr. Joyce, and
Mr. Wenstrup
The committee will retire from the Chamber to escort the Speaker-
elect to the chair.
The Sergeant at Arms announced the Speaker-elect of the House of
Representatives of the 114th Congress, who was escorted to the chair by
the Committee of Escort.
Ms. PELOSI. My colleagues of the United States House of
Representatives, it is a high honor to welcome you and your families to
the 114th Congress.
To our newest Members, this is a special pleasure to give you an
exceptional welcome and congratulations. Welcome to our newest Members.
As was indicated by the vote, many of our colleagues from the State
of New York are not with us because they are attending the funeral of
Governor
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Mario Cuomo. I extend condolences to our colleagues from the State of
New York and have extended the sympathies of many in this body to
Governor Cuomo's widow, Matilda, and to his family. As an Italian
American, I am especially proud of his leadership and extend sympathies
to his family. Thank you, Cuomo family. Thank you, New York delegation.
None of us would be standing here without the support and the
strength of our families. Today, I am going to thank my dear husband of
51 years, Paul Pelosi, and my five children and nine grandchildren, all
the Pelosis and D'Alesandros. Let all of us applaud all of our
families.
To my Democratic colleagues and to my constituents in San Francisco,
I thank you for the privilege of serving in the House, but to my
colleagues, I thank you for the honor of serving as leader, but all of
us should applaud all of our constituents for sending us here. So let
us, again, applaud our constituents.
Each one of us, Mr. Speaker, as you know, represents Republicans,
represents Democrats, Independents, and others, and we should always
pay tribute to the American people. The American people have called
upon each of us to serve them. They have entrusted us with their hopes,
their dreams, and they have asked us to address their challenges.
The financial stability of a strong middle class and those who aspire
to it is the bedrock of our economy and the backbone of our American
democracy. We have a moral imperative to ensure that working men and
women enjoy the bounty of their unprecedented productivity and to
expand the purchasing power of families.
To that end, today, Democrats will put forward a legislative package
to put Americans back to work building our roads and bridges and
meeting the needs of the American people, paid for by bringing our tax
dollars back home and to increase the paycheck of America's working
families.
We invite our Republican colleagues to join us in supporting the Stop
Corporate Expatriation and Invest in America's Infrastructure Act. It
is time to stop rewarding companies to move overseas and instead use
those dollars to create good-paying jobs here at home.
We ask for Republican support and action on the CEO-Employee Pay
Fairness Act, legislation to ensure that workers share in the fruit of
their productivity, denying CEOs the ability to claim tax deductions on
annual income over $1 million unless they give their employees a well-
deserved raise.
We must have an economy that works for everyone, not just the
privileged few, and we hope Republicans will join us to achieve a
better infrastructure and bigger paychecks for the working people of
our country--better infrastructure, bigger paychecks.
We open this 114th Congress in the year we celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most consequential
pieces of legislation in our history. President Lyndon Johnson and
Congress passed it. The President signed it. Reverend Martin Luther
King, Jr., and others, along with our own John Lewis, fought for it and
inspired it. We must continue to inspire the engagement of every
American. It is the vote that preserves our democracy, ends injustice,
advances dreams, and sustains our freedom.
In terms of protecting our freedom, let us recognize, salute, and
thank all of those brave Americans who protect our rights--indeed,
protect all of our liberty--our men and women in uniform, our veterans,
and our military families.
Mr. Speaker, today, we are at the start of a new year and a new
Congress, with fresh opportunity for the American people. Today is the
Feast of the Epiphany, the visit of the magi; so let us have our own
epiphany, for this moment, on this day, we are not just Republicans and
Democrats, we are Americans not just in name, but in spirit, standing
on higher ground than the last election.
My hope is that in the inevitable exchanges and clashes that may
happen in the months ahead, we will not lose sight of the truth that is
as fresh as this ceremony is today and as historic as our Republic that
the ideals that unite us are stronger than the issues that divide us in
this House.
That does not mean that we are dispensing with all disagreements in
this debate. Our democracy is robust precisely because we have beliefs
and we stand proudly, even persistently, for them; and our democracy
endures and prevails because in the end, we are humble enough to find a
way forward together.
My fellow colleagues of the 114th Congress, let us uphold our deep
and different convictions, but let us honor our common obligation to
our country. In this Congress, we will do so under the leadership of
Speaker John Boehner.
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This House will continue to be led by a proud son of Ohio and a happy
fan of the Ohio State football team. A man of abiding faith, great
heart, and deep dedication, John Boehner is truly a gentleman from
Ohio.
Congratulations to you, John, to Mr. Speaker, to Debbie, to your
daughters, Lindsay and Tricia, and the entire Boehner family. Thank you
for sharing John Boehner with us. God bless you and your family, Mr.
Speaker.
May God continue to bless the Members of the House of
Representatives. This is the people's House. This is the people's
gavel. In the people's name, it is my privilege to hand it to the
Speaker of the House for the 114th Congress, the Honorable John
Boehner.
God bless you, Mr. Speaker, and God bless America.
Mr. BOEHNER. Thank you.
Friends, colleagues, countrymen, and especially the people of Ohio's
Eighth Congressional District, thank you for sending me here. Let us
today welcome all of the new Members and all of their families to what
we all know to be a truly historic day.
As we welcome all of the Members back who were reelected, we want to
welcome your families as well, and I want to thank my family. I was
doing pretty well on the walk over here from my ceremonial office until
I ran into Devin Nunes' three little girls--my three biggest fans--and
one of them came running over and gave me a kiss, and I was a mess.
This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad. We
rejoice that our new Members and families are here. We welcome them. We
are glad and humbled to begin anew as servants of the people's House.
Here, it is our duty and our privilege to lend a willing ear to the
people, to make laws in tune with their priorities and within the
limits of their Constitution.
In recent months, our economy has shown signs of improvement, and
after difficult years, it may be a temptation to accept what I will
call the new normal. But America did not become exceptional by ease.
Far too many Americans remain out of work, and too many are working
harder only to lose ground to stagnant wages and rising costs. We can
do better. We can build an economy that furthers better-paying jobs,
more growth, and more opportunity for the Nation's middle class. This
is our vital task.
We will begin this endeavor on common ground, both in letter and in
spirit. It was actually my predecessor, Nicholas Longworth of
Cincinnati, who changed the order of things so that all Members now
take the oath of office at the same time. He called this innovation a
timesaving device. He sounds like my kind of guy. But this shared
ritual is no passing formality. It is a frontier where words end and
where deeds begin.
The pessimists don't see us crossing this channel. They say nothing
is going to be accomplished here, that division is wider than ever and
so gridlock will be even greater. Frankly, fair enough. Skepticism of
our government is healthy and, in our time, quite understandable. But
one problem with saying it can't be done is that it already has been
done--or at least started.
In the last Congress, this House passed a number of jobs bills with
broad support from the majority and the minority, and we will begin our
work on this common ground, taking up measures to develop North
American energy, restore the hours of middle class workers, and help
small businesses hire more of our veterans. We invite the President to
support and sign these bipartisan initiatives into law. It will be a
good start; and more, it will be a sign that the logjam is breaking,
and it will be a foundation on which to address the bigger challenges
in the pursuit of freedom and security.
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No, this won't be done in a tidy way. The battle of ideas never ends
and, frankly, never should. As Speaker, all I ask--and, frankly,
expect--is that we disagree without being disagreeable. In return, I
pledge to help each of you carry out your duties. My door, of course,
is always open. Now don't get carried away with it--all right?--but it
is always open.
My colleagues, some things we do here will be characterized as
shadowboxing and show business, but let me tell you and the American
people, it is real work. It is a grind, as it should be, in striving to
preserve the things that we all hold dear.
Every day, you and I come out here, try to plant good seeds,
cultivate the ground, and take care of the pests; and then, with
patience and some sacrifice and God's grace, there will be a harvest.
Along the way, we may falter, but we Americans do not fall away from
the task. We do not quit.
So let's stand tall and prove the skeptics wrong. Let's make this a
time of harvest, and may the fruits of our labors be ladders our
children can use to climb the stairs to the stars.
Thank you all, and God bless the United States of America.
I am now ready to take the oath of office.
I ask the Dean of the House of Representatives, the Honorable John
Conyers of Michigan, to administer the oath of office.
Mr. Conyers then administered the oath of office to Mr. Boehner of
Ohio, as follows:
Do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will support and
defend the Constitution of the United States against all
enemies, foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith
and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation
freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;
and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of
the office on which you are about to enter, so help you God.
(Applause, the Members rising.)
Mr. CONYERS. Congratulations, Mr. Speaker.
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