[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 65]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 4:23 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mrs. Cole, one of its reading clerks, announced that the House has 
agreed to H. Res. 1, resolving that Karen L. Haas of the State of 
Maryland, be, and is hereby, chosen Clerk of the House of 
Representatives, and that Wilson S. Livingood of the Commonwealth of 
Virginia, be, and is hereby, chosen Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of 
Representatives, and that Daniel J. Strodel of the District of 
Columbia, be, and is hereby, chosen Chief Administrative Officer of the 
House of Representatives, and that Father Daniel P. Coughlin of the 
State of Illinois, be, and is hereby, chosen Chaplain of the House of 
Representatives.
  The message also announced that the House has agreed to H. Res. 2, 
resolving that the Senate be informed that a quorum of the House of 
Representatives has assembled, that John A. Boehner, a Representative 
from the State of Ohio, has been elected Speaker, and Karen L. Haas, a 
citizen of the State of Maryland, has been elected Clerk of the House 
of Representatives of the One Hundred Twelfth Congress.
  The message further announced that pursuant to House Resolution 3, 
the Speaker appoints the following Members of the House of 
Representatives to join a committee on the part of the Senate to notify 
the President of the United States that a quorum of each House has 
assembled and that Congress is ready to receive any communication that 
he may be pleased to make: Mr. Cantor of Virginia and Ms. Pelosi of 
California.

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