January 3, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 1 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session
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House of Representatives; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 1
(House of Representatives - January 03, 2019)
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[Pages H1-H2] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [[Page H1]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- House of Representatives This being the day fixed by the 20th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, for the meeting of the 116th 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. Reverend Emanuel Cleaver, St. James United Methodist Church, Kansas City, Missouri, offered the following prayer: Almighty and endearing God, whose Lordship is just and true, we bow in recognition of that Godship in this hallowed and consequential moment of inaugurating a Speaker to preside over and provide leadership to the House of Representatives of the United States. May we temporarily hush our preoccupation with vexing considerations that deplete our energy and consume our hours to seek now favor from Thou whose immaculate voting record demonstrates our need of Thy guidance. We pray, O Lord, for wisdom sufficient to lean not on our unaided privilege and power to embrace our summons to address the great challenges of this day that are fraught with tribalism at home and turbulence abroad. Thou who has the whole world in His hand, to Thee we pray for inner resources to rise as a legislative body above political selfishness and then shrink to a level of humility and penitence that would be in harmony with Your will. When we leave this place, we will, with Your blessing, launch a bold attempt to become the architects of a kindlier Nation that is purging itself of any and all prejudices which degrade the unmatched blessings You have awarded the people of this great Nation. Inspire us, the Members of this august body, to dedicate ourselves to the healing of open sores in a land where there is far too much mistrust and enmity of those who are different. Led now in this temple of governance by the Speaker and leaders of both sides of the political aisle, we pray for Your presence in this place. We need Thee every hour. O Lord, how we need thee. When we are puzzled, guide us with Your hand of direction. When we are worn and wearied, grant us light to find a just and fair way, and when we are confused, anoint our priorities and pet projects so that any diminutive success may give You the glory. Receive now this prayer, O Lord. 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 434 seats in the 116th Congress have been received by the Clerk of the House. The Clerk has not received a certificate of election from the Ninth District of the State of North Carolina. The names of those persons whose credentials show that they were regularly elected as Representatives in accord 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''--431 ALABAMA Aderholt Brooks Byrne Palmer Roby Rogers Sewell ALASKA Young ARIZONA Biggs Gallego Gosar Grijalva Kirkpatrick Lesko O'Halleran Schweikert Stanton ARKANSAS Crawford Hill Westerman Womack CALIFORNIA Aguilar Barragan Bass Bera Brownley Calvert Carbajal Cardenas Chu, Judy Cisneros Cook Correa Costa Cox Davis DeSaulnier Eshoo Garamendi Gomez Harder Hill Huffman Khanna LaMalfa Lee Levin Lieu, Ted Lofgren Lowenthal Matsui McCarthy McClintock McNerney Napolitano Panetta Pelosi Peters Porter Rouda Roybal-Allard Ruiz Sanchez Schiff Sherman Speier Swalwell Takano Thompson Torres Vargas Waters COLORADO Buck Crow DeGette Lamborn Neguse Perlmutter Tipton CONNECTICUT Courtney DeLauro Hayes Himes Larson DELAWARE Blunt Rochester FLORIDA Bilirakis Buchanan Castor Crist Demings Deutch Diaz-Balart Dunn Frankel Gaetz Hastings Lawson Mast Mucarsel-Powell Murphy Posey Rooney Rutherford Shalala Soto [[Page H2]] Spano Steube Waltz Wasserman Schultz Webster Yoho GEORGIA Allen Bishop Carter Collins Ferguson Graves Hice Johnson Lewis Loudermilk McBath Scott, Austin Scott, David Woodall HAWAII Case Gabbard IDAHO Fulcher Simpson ILLINOIS Bost Bustos Casten Davis, Danny K. Foster Garcia Kelly Kinzinger Krishnamoorthi LaHood Lipinski Quigley Rush Schakowsky Schneider Shimkus Underwood INDIANA- Baird Banks Brooks Bucshon Carson Hollingsworth Pence Visclosky Walorski IOWA Axne Finkenauer King Loebsack KANSAS Davids Estes Marshall Watkins KENTUCKY Barr Comer Guthrie Massie Rogers LOUISIANA Abraham Graves Johnson Richmond Scalise MAINE Golden Pingree MARYLAND Brown Cummings Harris Hoyer Raskin Ruppersberger Sarbanes Trone MASSACHUSETTS Clark Keating Kennedy Lynch McGovern Moulton Neal Pressley Trahan MICHIGAN Amash Bergman Dingell Huizenga Kildee Lawrence Levin Mitchell Moolenaar Slotkin Stevens Tlaib Upton Walberg MINNESOTA Craig Emmer Hagedorn McCollum Omar Peterson Phillips MISSISSIPPI Guest Kelly Palazzo Thompson MISSOURI Clay Cleaver Graves Hartzler Long Luetkemeyer Smith Wagner MONTANA Gianforte NEBRASKA Bacon Fortenberry Smith NEVADA Amodei Horsford Lee Titus NEW HAMPSHIRE Kuster Pappas NEW JERSEY Gottheimer Kim Malinowski Norcross Pallone Pascrell Payne Sherrill Sires Smith Van Drew Watson Coleman NEW MEXICO Haaland Lujan Torres Small NEW YORK Brindisi Clarke Collins Delgado Engel Espaillat Higgins Jeffries Katko King Lowey Maloney, Carolyn B. Maloney, Sean Meeks Meng Morelle Nadler Ocasio-Cortez Reed Rice Rose Serrano Stefanik Suozzi Tonko Velazquez Zeldin NORTH CAROLINA Adams Budd Butterfield Foxx Holding Hudson McHenry Meadows Price Rouzer Walker NORTH DAKOTA Armstrong OHIO Balderson Beatty Chabot Davidson Fudge Gibbs Gonzalez Johnson Jordan Joyce Kaptur Latta Ryan Stivers Turner Wenstrup OKLAHOMA Cole Hern, Kevin Horn, Kendra S. Lucas Mullin OREGON Blumenauer Bonamici DeFazio Schrader Walden PENNSYLVANIA Boyle, Brendan F. Cartwright Dean Doyle, Michael F. Evans Fitzpatrick Houlahan Joyce Kelly Lamb Marino Meuser Perry Reschenthaler Scanlon Smucker Thompson Wild RHODE ISLAND Cicilline Langevin SOUTH CAROLINA Clyburn Cunningham Duncan Norman Rice Timmons Wilson SOUTH DAKOTA Johnson TENNESSEE Burchett Cohen Cooper DesJarlais Fleischmann Green Kustoff Roe, David P. Rose, John W. TEXAS Allred Arrington Babin Brady Burgess Carter Castro Cloud Conaway Crenshaw Cuellar Doggett Escobar Fletcher Flores Garcia Gohmert Gonzalez Gooden Granger Green Hurd Jackson Lee Johnson Marchant McCaul Olson Ratcliffe Roy Taylor Thornberry Veasey Vela Weber Williams Wright UTAH Bishop Curtis McAdams Stewart VERMONT Welch VIRGINA Beyer Cline Connolly Griffith Luria McEachin Riggleman Scott Spanberger Wexton Wittman WASHINGTON DelBene Heck Herrera Beutler Jayapal Kilmer Larsen McMorris Rodgers Newhouse Schrier Smith WEST VIRGINIA McKinley Miller Mooney WISCONSIN Duffy Gallagher Grothman Kind Moore Pocan Sensenbrenner Steil WYOMING Cheney {time} 1239 The CLERK. Four hundred thirty-one Representatives-elect have recorded their presence. A quorum is present. ____________________
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