[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27569]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     ELECTION OF CLERK OF THE HOUSE

  Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution (H. 
Res. 580) and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 580

       Resolved, That Karen L. Haas of the State of Maryland, be, 
     and is hereby, chosen Clerk of the House of Representatives.

  The resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  The SPEAKER. Would the Clerk-designate please take the well.
  The Clerk-designate presented herself 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.

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