January 3, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 1 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE

  At 4:52 p.m., a message from the House of Representatives, delivered 
by Mr. Novotny, 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; that Paul D. Irving of the State of Florida be, and is 
hereby, chosen Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives; that 
Philip George Kiko of the State of Ohio be, and is hereby, chosen Chief 
Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives; and that Father 
Patrick J. Conroy of the State of Oregon be, and is hereby, chosen 
Chaplain of the House of Representatives.
  The message further 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 Nancy Pelosi, a Representative from 
the State of California, 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 Sixteenth Congress.
  The message also 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. Hoyer of Maryland and Mr. McCarthy of California.

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