[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 3, 2017)]
[House]
[Page H6]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     TO INFORM THE SENATE THAT A QUORUM OF THE HOUSE HAS ASSEMBLED 
            AND OF THE ELECTION OF THE SPEAKER AND THE CLERK



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  January 3, 2017, on page H6, the following appeared: The 
SPEAKER. Congratulations. ------------------------------ TO INFORM 
THE SENATE THAT A
  
  The online version has been corrected to read: The SPEAKER. 
Congratulations. ------------------------------ SWEARING IN OF 
MEMBER-ELECT The SPEAKER. Will the Representative-elect please 
present herself in the well. Mrs. Lawrence of Michigan appeared at 
the bar of the House and took the oath of office, as follows: Do 
you solemnly swear 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. The SPEAKER. Congratulations. You 
are now a Member of the 115th Congress. --------------------------
---- TO INFORM THE SENATE THAT A


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  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution and ask 
for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                               H. Res. 2

       Resolved, That the Senate be informed that a quorum of the 
     House of Representatives has assembled; that Paul D. Ryan, a 
     Representative from the State of Wisconsin, has been elected 
     Speaker; and that Karen L. Haas, a citizen of the State of 
     Maryland, has been elected Clerk of the House of 
     Representatives of the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress.

  The resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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