```

[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 6, 2009)]
[House]
[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 Public Law 110-430, pursuant to the 20th 
amendment to the Constitution 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. Lorraine C. 
Miller.
  Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, 
offered the following prayer:
  Dear friends, let us remind ourselves in this special place, on this 
special day, that we are in the presence of God.
  Lord, we praise You at this historic moment. You are the loving 
Father of us all, the merciful, the compassionate, the source of all 
wisdom, the giver of all gifts.
  We have so much to thank You for, dear God--for our lives, our 
families, for our freedom and our opportunities, for our Nation and for 
the historic choice of leadership it has just made and, indeed, for the 
age-old values that are still enshrined in our Constitution and in our 
hearts.
  Sustain the Members of the 111th Congress in courage and in 
confidence as they face the daunting needs of this special time. 
Challenge them, Lord, not to forget the hungry and the homeless, the 
unborn and the immigrant, those without access to good education or 
decent health care, and those many men and women caught in a cycle of 
poverty from which they cannot escape without our help.
  Let our Representatives be builders of a better world--a world 
without war or violence, without oppression or corruption--builders of 
a new world whose foundations are human dignity, the values of family 
life and respect for the laws of nature.
  Lord, we pray: Make us always proud of those we have chosen to lead 
us so that, with their leadership and Your loving care, You may always 
be proud of us and of these United States of America. 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 111th 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 recorded 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''--428

                                ALABAMA

     Aderholt
     Bachus
     Bonner
     Bright
     Davis
     Griffith
     Rogers

                                 ALASKA

       
     Young
       

                                ARIZONA

     Flake
     Franks
     Giffords
     Grijalva
     Kirkpatrick
     Mitchell
     Pastor
     Shadegg

                                ARKANSAS

     Berry
     Boozman
     Ross
     Snyder

                               CALIFORNIA

     Baca
     Becerra
     Berman
     Bilbray
     Bono Mack
     Calvert
     Campbell
     Capps
     Cardoza
     Costa
     Davis
     Dreier
     Eshoo
     Farr
     Filner
     Gallegly
     Harman
     Herger
     Honda
     Hunter
     Issa
     Lee
     Lewis
     Lofgren, Zoe
     Lungren, Daniel E.
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McClintock
     McKeon
     McNerney
     Miller, George
     Napolitano
     Nunes
     Pelosi
     Radanovich
     Richardson
     Rohrabacher
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schiff
     Sherman
     Solis
     Speier
     Stark
     Tauscher
     Thompson
     Waters
     Watson
     Waxman
     Woolsey

                                COLORADO

     Coffman
     DeGette
     Lamborn
     Markey
     Perlmutter
     Polis
     Salazar

                              CONNECTICUT

     Courtney
     DeLauro
     Himes
     Larson
     Murphy

                                DELAWARE

       
     Castle
       

                                FLORIDA

     Bilirakis
     Boyd
     Brown, Corrine
     Brown-Waite, Ginny
     Buchanan
     Castor
     Crenshaw
     Diaz-Balart, L.
     Diaz-Balart, M.
     Grayson
     Hastings
     Klein
     Kosmas
     Mack
     Meek
     Mica
     Miller
     Posey
     Putnam
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Stearns
     Wasserman Schultz
     Wexler
     Young

                                GEORGIA

     Barrow
     Bishop
     Broun
     Deal
     Gingrey
     Johnson
     Kingston
     Lewis
     Linder
     Marshall
     Price
     Scott
     Westmoreland

                                 HAWAII

     Abercrombie
     Hirono
      

[[Page H2]]

                                 IDAHO

     Minnick
     Simpson
      

                                ILLINOIS

     Bean
     Biggert
     Costello
     Davis
     Foster
     Halvorson
     Hare
     Jackson
     Kirk
     Lipinski
     Manzullo
     Roskam
     Schakowsky
     Schock
     Shimkus

                                INDIANA

     Burton
     Buyer
     Carson
     Donnelly
     Ellsworth
     Hill
     Pence
     Souder
     Visclosky

                                  IOWA

     Boswell
     Braley
     King
     Latham
     Loebsack

                                 KANSAS

     Jenkins
     Moore
     Moran
     Tiahrt

                                KENTUCKY

     Chandler
     Davis
     Guthrie
     Rogers
     Whitfield
     Yarmuth

                               LOUISIANA

     Alexander
     Boustany
     Cao
     Cassidy
     Fleming
     Melancon
     Scalise

                                 MAINE

     Michaud
     Pingree
      

                                MARYLAND

     Bartlett
     Cummings
     Edwards
     Hoyer
     Kratovil
     Ruppersberger
     Sarbanes
     Van Hollen

                             MASSACHUSETTS

     Capuano
     Delahunt
     Frank
     Lynch
     Markey
     McGovern
     Neal
     Olver
     Tierney
     Tsongas

                                MICHIGAN

     Camp
     Conyers
     Dingell
     Ehlers
     Hoekstra
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Levin
     McCotter
     Miller
     Peters
     Schauer
     Stupak
     Upton

                               MINNESOTA

     Bachmann
     Ellison
     Kline
     McCollum
     Oberstar
     Paulsen
     Peterson
     Walz

                              MISSISSIPPI

     Childers
     Harper
     Taylor
     Thompson

                                MISSOURI

     Akin
     Blunt
     Carnahan
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Emerson
     Graves
     Luetkemeyer
     Skelton

                                MONTANA

       
     Rehberg
       

                                NEBRASKA

     Fortenberry
     Smith
     Terry

                                 NEVADA

     Berkley
     Heller
     Titus

                             NEW HAMPSHIRE

     Hodes
     Shea-Porter
       

                               NEW JERSEY

     Adler
     Andrews
     Frelinghuysen
     Garrett
     Holt
     Lance
     LoBiondo
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Rothman
     Sires
     Smith

                               NEW MEXICO

     Heinrich
     Lujan
     Teague

                                NEW YORK

     Ackerman
     Arcuri
     Bishop
     Clarke
     Crowley
     Engel
     Gillibrand
     Hall
     Higgins
     Hinchey
     Israel
     King
     Lee
     Lowey
     Maffei
     Maloney
     Massa
     McCarthy
     McHugh
     McMahon
     Meeks
     Nadler
     Rangel
     Serrano
     Slaughter
     Tonko
     Towns
     Velazquez
     Weiner

                             NORTH CAROLINA

     Butterfield
     Coble
     Etheridge
     Foxx
     Jones
     Kissell
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     Miller
     Myrick
     Price
     Shuler
     Watt

                              NORTH DAKOTA

       
     Pomeroy
       

                                  OHIO

     Austria
     Boccieri
     Boehner
     Driehaus
     Fudge
     Jordan
     Kaptur
     Kilroy
     Kucinich
     LaTourette
     Latta
     Ryan
     Schmidt
     Space
     Sutton
     Tiberi
     Turner
     Wilson

                                OKLAHOMA

     Boren
     Cole
     Fallin
     Lucas
     Sullivan

                                 OREGON

     Blumenauer
     DeFazio
     Schrader
     Walden
     Wu

                              PENNSYLVANIA

     Altmire
     Brady
     Carney
     Dahlkemper
     Dent
     Doyle
     Fattah
     Gerlach
     Holden
     Kanjorski
     Murphy, Patrick
     Murphy, Tim
     Murtha
     Pitts
     Platts
     Schwartz
     Sestak
     Shuster
     Thompson

                              RHODE ISLAND

     Kennedy
     Langevin
       

                             SOUTH CAROLINA

     Barrett
     Brown
     Clyburn
     Inglis
     Spratt
     Wilson

                              SOUTH DAKOTA

       
     Herseth Sandlin
       

                               TENNESSEE

     Blackburn
     Cohen
     Cooper
     Davis
     Duncan
     Gordon
     Roe
     Tanner
     Wamp

                                 TEXAS

     Barton
     Brady
     Burgess
     Carter
     Conaway
     Cuellar
     Culberson
     Doggett
     Edwards
     Gohmert
     Gonzalez
     Granger
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Hall
     Hensarling
     Hinojosa
     Jackson-Lee
     Johnson, E.B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Marchant
     McCaul
     Neugebauer
     Olson
     Ortiz
     Paul
     Poe
     Reyes
     Rodriguez
     Sessions
     Smith
     Thornberry

                                  UTAH

     Bishop
     Chaffetz
     Matheson

                                VERMONT

       
     Welch
       

                                VIRGINIA

     Boucher
     Cantor
     Connolly
     Forbes
     Goodlatte
     Moran
     Nye
     Perriello
     Scott
     Wittman
     Wolf

                               WASHINGTON

     Baird
     Dicks
     Inslee
     Larsen
     McDermott
     McMorris Rodgers
     Reichert
     Smith

                             WEST VIRGINIA

     Capito
     Mollohan
     Rahall

                               WISCONSIN

     Baldwin
     Kagen
     Kind
     Moore
     Obey
     Petri
     Ryan
     Sensenbrenner

                                WYOMING

       
     Lummis
       

                              {time}  1239

  The CLERK. The quorum call discloses that 428 Representatives-elect 
have responded to their name. A quorum is present.

                          ____________________
```