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Floor Speech2025-01-03

TO INFORM THE SENATE THAT A QUORUM OF THE HOUSE HAS ASSEMBLED AND OF THE ELECTION OF THE SPEAKER AND THE CLERK

Steve Scalise
Steve Scalise
RLA-1 · Representative
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TO INFORM THE SENATE THAT A QUORUM OF THE HOUSE HAS ASSEMBLED AND OF THE ELECTION OF THE SPEAKER AND THE CLERK

Congressional Record, Volume 171 Issue 1 (Friday, January 3, 2025) [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 1 (Friday, January 3, 2025)] [House] [Page H8] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] {time} 1545 TO INFORM THE SENATE THAT A QUORUM OF THE HOUSE HAS ASSEMBLED AND OF THE ELECTION OF THE SPEAKER AND THE CLERK Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, I offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 2 Resolved, That the Senate be informed that a quorum of the House of Representatives has assembled; that Mike Johnson, a Representative from the State of Louisiana, has been elected Speaker; and that Kevin McCumber, a citizen of the State of Illinois, has been elected Clerk of the House of Representatives of the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress. The resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ____________________

Referenced legislation: HRES2, HRES2
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