JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES Begun and held at the Capitol, in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Tuesday, the fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy-five, being the first session of the NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS, held under the Constitution of the United States, and in the one hundred and ninety-ninth year of the Independence of the United States. TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1975 On which day, being the day fixed by the Constitution of the United States, as amended, and Public Law 93-553, W. Pat Jennings, Clerk of the House of Representatives, at 12 o'clock noon, called the House to order, and proceeded to call the roll of the Members-elect by States whose credentials had been received, when the answered: following [Roll No. 1] ALABAMA Members-elect Flynt Metcalfe Morgan F. Derwinski Cardiss Michel Russo Stuckey HAWAII IDAHO Clay Bolling Symington Litton MONTANA Price Zablocki Obey WYOMING Roncalio (at large) The rollcall having been completed, the Clerk announced that 432 Memberselect had answered to their names, a quorum. CREDENTIALS OF RESIDENT COMMISSIONERELECT AND DELEGATES-ELECT The Clerk made the following statement: The Clerk wishes to state that credentials are on file showing the election of the Honorable JAIME BENITEZ as Resident Commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the election of the Honorable WALTER E. FAUNTROY as Delegate from the District of Columbia, the election of the Honorable ANTONIO BORJA Corman Jarman de la Garza Kastenmeier Delaney Kazen Randall Rangel Rees Hubbard Hughes Hungate Krueger LaFalce Landrum Leggett Lehman Litton Lloyd, Calif. Lloyd, Tenn. Patman Reuss Roncalio Roush The roll having been completed, the Clerk announced that the tellers had: reached an agreement; that the total number of votes cast were 432, of which number Mr. CARL B. ALBERT received 287; Mr. JOHN J. RHODES, 143. Mr. CARL B. ALBERT of Oklahoma, having received 287 votes, being the largest number cast for any Memberelect, and a majority of the whole number of votes cast, was declared by the Clerk to have been duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 94th Congress. The Clerk announced the appointment of Mr. RHODES, Mr. O'NEILL, Mr. MICHEL, Mr. PHILLIP BURTON, and Mr. STEED to escort the Speaker to the Chair. The SPEAKER was escorted to the chair by said committee and, following |