[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 1] [House] [Pages 30-31] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov][[Page 30]] HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Tuesday, January 3, 2017 This being the day fixed by the 20th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, for the meeting of the 115th Congress of the United States, the Representatives-elect met in their Hall, and at noon were called to order by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Hon. Karen L. Haas. Very Reverend Paul Ugo Arinze, St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Church, Janesville, Wisconsin, offered the following prayer: Almighty and ever-living God, as this 115th Congress is gaveled in to begin their work for the people of this great Nation, we ask You to send down Your spirit upon the men and women of this House. Give them wisdom, so that they may lead the people of our country into peace and prosperity. Grant them an open spirit to listen to each other and to work with each other. Endow them with courage that is borne of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy; loyalty to their families, loyalty to their constituents, loyalty to the Constitution, and loyalty to our country--loyalty that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice and knows no fear when truths and rights are in jeopardy. Grant them new forms of friendship and new opportunities for service. May they always show forth in their lives and works the ideals of our country: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Amen. Pledge of Allegiance The CLERK. The Representatives-elect and their guests will please remain standing and join in the Pledge of Allegiance. 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. As directed by law, the Clerk of the House has prepared the official roll of the Representatives-elect. Certificates of election covering 435 seats in the 115th 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. The Representatives-elect will record their presence by electronic device and their names will be reported in alphabetical order by State, beginning with the State of Alabama, to determine whether a quorum is present. Representatives-elect will have a minimum of 15 minutes to record their presence by electronic device. Representatives-elect who have not obtained their voting ID cards may do so now in the Speaker's lobby. The call was taken by electronic device, and the following Representatives-elect responded to their names: [Roll No. 1] ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--434 ALABAMA Aderholt Brooks Byrne Palmer Roby Rogers Sewell ALASKA Young ARIZONA Biggs Franks Gallego Grijalva Gosar McSally O'Halleran Sinema Schweikert ARKANSAS Crawford Hill Westerman Womack CALIFORNIA Aguilar Barragan Bass Becerra Bera Brownley Calvert Carbajal Cardenas Chu, Judy Cook Correa Costa Davis Denham DeSaulnier Eshoo Garamendi Huffman Hunter Issa Khanna Knight LaMalfa Lee Lieu, Ted Lofgren Lowenthal Matsui McCarthy McClintock McNerney Napolitano Nunes Panetta Pelosi Peters Rohrabacher Roybal-Allard Royce Ruiz Sanchez Schiff Sherman Speier Swalwell Takano Thompson Torres Valadao Vargas Walters, Mimi Waters, Maxine COLORADO Buck Coffman DeGette Lamborn Perlmutter Polis Tipton CONNECTICUT Courtney DeLauro Esty Himes Larson DELAWARE Blunt Rochester FLORIDA Bilirakis Buchanan Castor Crist Curbelo Demings DeSantis Deutch Diaz-Balart Dunn Frankel Gaetz Hastings Lawson Mast Murphy Posey Rooney, Francis Rooney, Thomas J. Ros-Lehtinen Ross Rutherford Soto Wasserman Schultz Webster Wilson Yoho GEORGIA Allen Bishop Carter Collins Ferguson Graves Hice, Jody B. Johnson Lewis Loudermilk Price, Tom Scott, Austin Scott, David Woodall HAWAII Gabbard Hanabusa IDAHO Labrador Simpson ILLINOIS Bost Bustos Davis, Danny Davis, Rodney Foster Gutierrez Hultgren Kelly Kinzinger Krishnamoorthi LaHood Lipinski Quigley Roskam Rush Schakowsky Schneider Shimkus INDIANA Banks Brooks Bucshon Carson Hollingsworth Messer Rokita Visclosky Walorski IOWA Blum King Loebsack Young KANSAS Jenkins Marshall Pompeo Yoder KENTUCKY Barr Comer Guthrie Massie Rogers Yarmuth LOUISIANA Abraham Graves Higgins Johnson Richmond Scalise MAINE Pingree Poliquin MARYLAND Brown Cummings Delaney Harris Hoyer Raskin Ruppersberger Sarbanes MASSACHUSETTS Capuano Clark Keating Kennedy Lynch McGovern Moulton Neal Tsongas MICHIGAN Amash Bergman Bishop Conyers Dingell Huizenga Kildee Lawrence Levin Mitchell Moolenaar Trott Upton Walberg MINNESOTA Ellison Emmer Lewis McCollum Nolan Paulsen Peterson Walz MISSISSIPPI Harper Kelly Palazzo Thompson MISSOURI Clay Cleaver Graves Hartzler Long Luetkemeyer Smith Wagner MONTANA Zinke NEBRASKA Bacon Fortenberry Smith NEVADA Amodei Kihuen Rosen Titus [[Page 31]] NEW HAMPSHIRE Kuster Shea-Porter NEW JERSEY Frelinghuysen Gottheimer Lance LoBiondo MacArthur Norcross Pallone Pascrell Payne Sires Smith (NJ) Watson Coleman NEW MEXICO Lujan, Ben Ray Lujan Grisham, M. Pearce NEW YORK Clarke Collins Crowley Donovan Engel Espaillat Faso Higgins Jeffries Katko King Lowey Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Meeks Meng Nadler Reed Rice Serrano Slaughter Stefanik Suozzi Tenney Tonko Velazquez Zeldin NORTH CAROLINA Adams Budd Butterfield Foxx Holding Hudson Jones McHenry Meadows Pittenger Price Rouzer Walker NORTH DAKOTA Cramer OHIO Beatty Chabot Davidson Fudge Gibbs Johnson Jordan Joyce Kaptur Latta Renacci Ryan Stivers Tiberi Turner Wenstrup OKLAHOMA Bridenstine Cole Lucas Mullin Russell OREGON Blumenauer Bonamici DeFazio Walden PENNSYLVANIA Barletta Boyle, Brendan F. Brady Cartwright Costello Dent Doyle, Michael F. Evans Fitzpatrick Kelly Marino Meehan Murphy Perry Rothfus Shuster Smucker Thompson RHODE ISLAND Cicilline Langevin SOUTH CAROLINA Clyburn Duncan (SC) Gowdy Mulvaney Rice (SC) Sanford Wilson (SC) SOUTH DAKOTA Noem TENNESSEE Black Blackburn Cohen Cooper DesJarlais Duncan (TN) Fleischmann Kustoff (TN) Roe (TN) TEXAS Arrington Babin Barton Brady Burgess Carter Castro Conaway Cuellar Culberson Doggett Farenthold Flores Gohmert Gonzalez Granger Green, Al Green, Gene Hensarling Hurd Jackson Lee Johnson, E. B. Johnson, Sam Marchant McCaul Olson O'Rourke Poe Ratcliffe Sessions Smith Thornberry Veasey Vela Weber Williams UTAH Bishop Chaffetz Love Stewart VERMONT Welch VIRGINIA Beyer Brat Comstock Connolly Garrett Goodlatte Griffith McEachin Scott Taylor Wittman WASHINGTON Beutler DelBene Heck Jayapal Kilmer Larsen McMorris Rodgers Newhouse Reichert Smith WEST VIRGINIA Jenkins McKinley Mooney WISCONSIN Duffy Gallagher Grothman Kind Moore Pocan Ryan Sensenbrenner WYOMING Cheney {time} 1237 The CLERK. Four hundred thirty-four Representatives-elect have recorded their presence. A quorum is present. ____________________