Congressional Record UNUM

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United States

of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 111th

 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

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Vol. 155 WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2009 No. 1 

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 Representativeselect 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 Representativeselect 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 

Sa ́nchez, 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 

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