[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Pages 15-16]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        MESSAGES FROM THE HOUSE

  At 7:09 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Hays, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
agreed to the following concurrent resolution, in which it requests the 
concurrence of the Senate:

                             H. Con. Res. 2

       Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
     concurring), That when the House adjourns on the legislative 
     day of Wednesday, January 6, 1999, it stand adjourned until 2 
     p.m. on Tuesday, January 19, 1999.

  The message also announced that the House has agreed to the following 
resolution:

                               H. Res. 2

       Resolved, That the Senate be informed that a quorum of the 
     House of Representatives has assembled; that J. Dennis 
     Hastert, a Representative from the State of Illinois, has 
     been elected Speaker; and Jeffrey J. Trandahl, a citizen of 
     the Commonwealth of Virginia, has been elected Clerk of the 
     House of Representatives of the One Hundred Sixth Congress.

  The message further announced that the House has agreed to the 
following resolution:


 house resolution 10, in the House of Representatives, January 6, 1999

       Resolved, That in continuance of the authority conferred in 
     House Resolution 614 of the One Hundred Fifth Congress 
     adopted by the House of Representatives and delivered to the 
     Senate on December 19, 1998, Mr. Hyde of Illinois, Mr. 
     Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, Mr. McCollum of Florida, Mr. 
     Gekas of Pennsylvania, Mr. Canady of Florida, Mr. Buyer of 
     Indiana, Mr. Bryant of Tennessee, Mr. Chabot of Ohio, Mr. 
     Barr of Georgia, Mr. Hutchinson of Arkansas, Mr. Cannon of 
     Utah, Mr. Rogan of California, and Mr. Graham of South 
     Carolina are appointed managers to conduct the impeachment 
     trial against William Jefferson Clinton, President of the 
     United States, that a message be sent to the Senate to inform 
     the Senate of these appointments, and that the managers so 
     appointed may, in connection with the preparation and the 
     conduct of the trial, exhibit the articles of impeachment to 
     the Senate and take all other actions necessary, which may 
     include the following:
       (1) Employing legal, clerical, and other necessary 
     assistants and incurring such other expenses as may be 
     necessary, to be paid from amounts available to the Committee 
     on the Judiciary under applicable expense resolutions or from 
     the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives.
       (2) Sending for persons and papers, and filing with the 
     Secretary of the Senate, on the

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     part of the House of Representatives, any pleadings, in 
     conjunction with or subsequent to, the exhibition of the 
     articles of impeachment that the managers consider necessary.

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