[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 35-36]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     TO INFORM THE SENATE THAT A QUORUM OF THE HOUSE HAS ASSEMBLED 
            AND OF THE ELECTION OF THE SPEAKER AND THE CLERK

  Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution and ask 
for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                               H. Res. 2

       Resolved, That the Senate be informed that a quorum of the 
     House of Representatives has assembled; that Paul D. Ryan, a 
     Representative from the State of Wisconsin, has been elected 
     Speaker; and that Karen L. Haas, a citizen of the State of 
     Maryland, has been elected Clerk of the House of 
     Representatives of the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress.

  The resolution was agreed to.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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