[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 18-20]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 

                United States
                 of America


January 3, 2001

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          HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Wednesday, January 3, 2001

  This being the day fixed by the 20th amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States for the meeting of the Congress of the United States, 
the Members-elect of the 107th Congress met in their Hall, and at noon 
were called to order by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Hon. 
Jeff Trandahl.
  The Chaplain, the Rev. Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, Almighty, by Your Divine Providence You have brought us to 
this new day. Bless us in our gathering, form us by Your Word, guide us 
by Your Spirit.
  The people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect 
union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the 
common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings 
of liberty for themselves and posterity, have acted according to the 
Constitution of this country and by lawful elections they have elected 
their representatives to serve in this House as the 107th Congress.
  Give this body an outpouring of Your Holy Spirit, that they may be 
wise in their judgments and serve freely the best interests of all of 
the people of this Nation.
  Broaden their personal concerns that they may seek the common good 
and always be attuned to the helpless sighs of the most vulnerable in 
our society.
  Clarify their vision, as they work together in the search for the 
best ideas and strategies to meet the greatest needs of our times.
  Bless all Members of this House, new and experienced. May their faith 
in You, Lord God, and in the destiny of this Nation, keep them humble 
in Your service.
  May their families remain their deepest love and lasting joy.
  May all here who assist them in this Chamber, in congressional 
offices and in committee responsibilities, be wise in their counsel and 
gracious in their service.
  May this Congress, Lord God, be a sign of unity and confidence to 
this Nation; good news to the poor and an instrument of peace in the 
world.
  Lord God, in You we trust now and forever. Amen.


                          Pledge of Allegiance

  The Clerk. The Members-elect and their guests will please rise and 
join in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
  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. Representatives-elect, this is the day fixed by the 20th 
amendment to the Constitution for the meeting of the 107th Congress 
and, as the law directs, the Clerk of the House has prepared the 
official roll of the Representatives-elect.
  Certificates of election covering 435 seats in the 107th 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.
  Without objection, the Representatives-elect will record their 
presence by electronic device and their names will be reported in 
alphabetical order by States, beginning with the State of Alabama, to 
determine whether a quorum is present.
  There was no objection.
  The call was taken by electronic device, and the following 
Representatives-elect responded to their names:

                              [Roll No. 1]

                       ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--429

                                ALABAMA

     Aderholt
     Bachus
     Callahan
     Cramer
     Everett
     Hilliard
     Riley

                                 ALASKA

       
     Young
       

                                ARIZONA

     Flake
     Hayworth
     Kolbe
     Pastor
     Shadegg
     Stump

                                ARKANSAS

     Berry
     Hutchinson
     Ross
     Snyder

                               CALIFORNIA

     Baca
     Becerra
     Berman
     Bono
     Calvert
     Capps
     Condit
     Cox
     Cunningham
     Davis
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Dreier
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Filner
     Gallegly
     Harman
     Herger
     Honda
     Horn
     Hunter
     Issa
     Lantos
     Lee
     Lewis
     Lofgren
     Matsui
     McKeon
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Napolitano
     Ose
     Pelosi
     Pombo
     Radanovich
     Rohrabacher
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Sanchez
     Schiff
     Sherman
     Solis
     Tauscher
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Waters
     Waxman
     Woolsey

                                COLORADO

     DeGette
     Hefley
     McInnis
     Schaffer
     Tancredo
     Udall

                              CONNECTICUT

     DeLauro
     Johnson
     Larson
     Maloney
     Shays
     Simmons

                                DELAWARE

       
     Castle
       

                                FLORIDA

     Bilirakis
     Boyd
     Brown
     Crenshaw
     Davis
     Diaz-Balart
     Deutsch
     Foley
     Goss
     Hastings
     Keller
     Meek
     Mica
     Miller
     Putnam
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Scarborough
     Shaw
     Stearns
     Thurman
     Weldon
     Wexler
     Young

                                GEORGIA

     Barr
     Bishop
     Chambliss
     Collins
     Deal
     Isakson
     Kingston
     Lewis
     Linder
     McKinney
     Norwood

                                 HAWAII

     Abercrombie
     Mink
       

                                 IDAHO

     Otter
     Simpson
       

                                ILLINOIS

     Biggert
     Blagojevich
     Costello
     Crane
     Davis
     Evans
     Hyde
     Jackson
     Johnson
     Kirk
     LaHood
     Manzullo
     Phelps
     Rush
     Schakowsky
     Shimkus
     Weller

                                INDIANA

     Burton
     Buyer
     Carson
     Hill
     Hostettler
     Kerns
     Pence
     Roemer
     Souder
     Visclosky

                                  IOWA

     Boswell
     Ganske
     Latham
     Leach
     Nussle

                                 KANSAS

     Moore
     Moran
     Ryun
     Tiahrt

                                KENTUCKY

     Fletcher
     Lewis
     Lucas
     Northup
     Rogers
     Whitfield

                               LOUISIANA

     Baker
     Cooksey
     Jefferson
     John
     McCrery
     Tauzin
     Vitter

                                 MAINE

     Allen
     Baldacci
       

                                MARYLAND

     Bartlett
     Cardin
     Cummings
     Ehrlich
     Gilchrest
     Hoyer
     Morella
     Wynn

                             MASSACHUSETTS

     Capuano
     Delahunt
     Frank
     Markey
     McGovern
     Meehan
     Moakley
     Neal
     Olver
     Tierney

                                MICHIGAN

     Barcia
     Bonior
     Camp
     Conyers
     Dingell
     Ehlers
     Hoekstra
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Knollenberg
     Levin
     Rivers
     Rogers
     Smith
     Stupak
     Upton

                               MINNESOTA

     Gutknecht
     Kennedy
     Luther
     McCollum
     Oberstar
     Peterson
     Ramstad
     Sabo

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                              MISSISSIPPI

     Pickering
     Shows
     Taylor
     Thompson
     Wicker

                                MISSOURI

     Akin
     Blunt
     Clay
     Emerson
     Gephardt
     Graves
     Hulshof
     McCarthy
     Skelton

                                MONTANA

       
     Rehberg
       

                                NEBRASKA

     Bereuter
     Osborne
     Terry

                                 NEVADA

     Berkley
     Gibbons
       

                             NEW HAMPSHIRE

     Bass
     Sununu
       

                               NEW JERSEY

     Andrews
     Ferguson
     Frelinghuysen
     Holt
     LoBiondo
     Menendez
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Saxton
     Smith

                               NEW MEXICO

     Udall
     Wilson
       

                                NEW YORK

     Ackerman
     Boehlert
     Crowley
     Engel
     Fossella
     Gilman
     Grucci
     Hinchey
     Houghton
     Israel
     Kelly
     King
     LaFalce
     Lowey
     Maloney
     McCarthy
     McHugh
     McNulty
     Meeks
     Nadler
     Owens
     Quinn
     Rangel
     Reynolds
     Serrano
     Slaughter
     Sweeney
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Walsh
     Weiner

                             NORTH CAROLINA

     Ballenger
     Burr
     Clayton
     Coble
     Etheridge
     Hayes
     Jones
     McIntyre
     Myrick
     Price
     Taylor
     Watt

                              NORTH DAKOTA

       
     Pomeroy
       

                                  OHIO

     Boehner
     Brown
     Chabot
     Gillmor
     Hall
     Hobson
     Jones
     Kaptur
     Kucinich
     LaTourette
     Ney
     Oxley
     Portman
     Pryce
     Regula
     Sawyer
     Strickland
     Tiberi
     Traficant

                                OKLAHOMA

     Carson
     Istook
     Largent
     Lucas
     Watkins
     Watts

                                 OREGON

     Blumenauer
     DeFazio
     Hooley
     Walden
     Wu

                              PENNSYLVANIA

     Borski
     Brady
     Coyne
     Doyle
     English
     Fattah
     Gekas
     Greenwood
     Hart
     Hoeffel
     Holden
     Kanjorksi
     Mascara
     Murtha
     Peterson
     Pitts
     Platts
     Sherwood
     Shuster
     Toomey
     Weldon

                              RHODE ISLAND

     Kennedy
     Langevin
       

                             SOUTH CAROLINA

     Brown
     Clyburn
     DeMint
     Graham
     Spence
     Spratt

                              SOUTH DAKOTA

       
     Thune
       

                               TENNESSEE

     Bryant
     Clement
     Duncan
     Ford
     Gordon
     Hilleary
     Jenkins
     Tanner
     Wamp

                                 TEXAS

     Armey
     Barton
     Bentsen
     Bonilla
     Brady
     Combest
     Culberson
     DeLay
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Frost
     Gonzalez
     Granger
     Green
     Hall
     Hinojosa
     Jackson-Lee
     Johnson, E.B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Lampson
     Ortiz
     Paul
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Sandlin
     Sessions
     Smith
     Stenholm
     Thornberry
     Turner

                                  UTAH

     Cannon
     Hansen
     Matheson

                                VERMONT

       
     Sanders
       

                                VIRGINIA

     Boucher
     Cantor
     Davis, Jo Ann
     Davis, Thomas M.
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Moran
     Schrock
     Scott
     Sisisky
     Wolf

                               WASHINGTON

     Baird
     Dicks
     Dunn
     Hastings
     Inslee
     Larsen
     McDermott
     Nethercutt
     Smith

                             WEST VIRGINIA

     Capito
     Mollohan
     Rahall

                               WISCONSIN

     Baldwin
     Barrett
     Green
     Kind
     Kleczka
     Obey
     Petri
     Ryan
     Sensenbrenner

                                WYOMING

       
     Cubin
       

                              {time}  1236

  The Clerk. The quorum call discloses that 429 Representatives-elect 
have responded to their name. A quorum is present.

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