To inform the Senate that a quorum of the House has assembled and of the election of the Speaker and the Clerk.

Bill: 115-hres-2
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-23]
Introduced: 2017-01-03
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Congressional leadership

Congressional officers and employees

House of Representatives
Latest action: action_date: 2017-01-03
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Informs the Senate that Paul D. Ryan has been elected Speaker of the House and that Karen L. Haas has been elected Clerk.</p>

action_date: 2017-01-03
action_desc: Passed House without amendment
text: <p>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</p> <p>Informs the Senate that Paul D. Ryan has been elected Speaker of the House and that Karen L. Haas has been elected Clerk.</p>

tv_txt: IV 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 2 In the House of Representatives, U. S., January 3, 2017 RESOLUTION To inform the Senate that a quorum of the House has assembled and of the election of the Speaker and the Clerk

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.

Karen L. Haas, Clerk.