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 GEORGIA MINNESOTA Quie Bergland On which day, being the day fixed by Brinkley McDonald, Landrum Hagedorn Fraser Oberstar the Constitution of the United States, Levitas Larry Frenzel Nolan MISSISSIPPI HAWAII Whitten Montgomery Lott resentatives, at 12 o'clock noon, called Matsunaga Mink Bowen Cochran the House to order, and proceeded to call IDAHO MISSOURI the roll of the Members-elect by States Symms Clay Hungate whose credentials had been received, Symington Litton Burlison, ILLINOIS Sullivan when the Bill D. following Members-elect Taylor, Gene Randall Ichord answered: Murphy, Mikva Morgan F. Collins, MONTANA Baucus Melcher Derwinski Rostenkowski McClory Buchanan NEBRASKA Price Hall Thone Smith, McCollister Virginia John Madigan NEVADA Santini (at large) INDIANA Madden NEW HAMPSHIRE Fithian Sharp D'Amours Cleveland John T. Jacobs Roush NEW JERSEY Hillis Florio Meyner schmidt IOWA Hughes Daniels, Howard Dominick V. Thompson Rodino Danielson Blouin Patten Fenwick Minish Forsythe Rinaldo Charles H. Anderson, NEW MEXICO Lujan Runnels KENTUCKY NEW YORK Perkins Natcher Pike Addabbo Solarz Downey Rosenthal Richmond Ambro Zeferetti LOUISIANA Lent Holtzman George Waxman Patterson Hébert Wydler Murphy, Boggs Wolff John M. Treen Walsh Rangel McHugh Horton Ryan Burke, Van Deerlin MAINE Abzug Conable McCloskey Yvonne Burgener Emery Badillo La Falce Bingham McEwen Nowak MARYLAND Peyser Mitchell, Kemp Mitchell, Donald J. Hastings Schroeder Johnson, Long, Hanley Clarence D. Byron Gude NORTH CAROLINA Jones, Broyhill MASSACHUSETTS Walter B. Preyer Taylor, Conte Roy A. Boland Macdonald, Margaret M. Henderson Hefner Andrews, Ike Martin Drinan James A. Tsongas NORTH DAKOTA Andrews, Mark (at large) MICHIGAN Conyers OHIO Stanton, Clancy Clarence J. J. William Chappell Bafalis Pepper Brodhead Whalen Kindness Devine Kelly Rogers Fascell Vander Veen O'Hara Blanchard Guyer Mosher Young, Carr Latta Seiberling C. W. Bill Riegle Harsha 1 Roybal Runnels Russo Ryan St Germain Santini Sarbanes Satterfield Scheuer Schroeder Seiberling Sharp Shipley Sikes Simon Sisk Slack Smith, Iowa Solarz Speiiman Staggers OREGON Duncan, Robert AuCoin Ullman Weaver Broomfield TENNESSEE Quillen Evins, Joe L. Ford, Duncan, Fulton Harold E. John J. Beard, Lloyd, Robin L. Marilyn Jones, Ed TEXAS Eckhardt Burleson, Omar Jordan Mahon Gonzalez Röberts Hightower Krueger Steelman Young, John Casey Teague de la Garza Kazen Archer White Milford UTAH McKay Howe VERMONT VIRGINIA Wampler WASHINGTON Adams WEST VIRGINIA Mollohan Slack Hechler, Ken Staggers WISCONSIN Cornell Kasten Baldus William A. Zablocki Obey ELECTION OF SPEAKER Mr. PHILLIP BURTON of California nominated Mr. CARL B. ALBERT, a Member-elect from the Third District of Oklahoma; and Mr. ANDERSON of Illinois nominated Mr. JOHN J. RHODES, a Member-elect from the First District of Arizona. The Clerk then appointed Mr. Hays of Ohio, Mr. DICKINSON of Alabama, Mrs. SULLIVAN of Missouri, and Mrs. HECKLER of Massachusetts, tellers to canvass the vote on the election of the Speaker. Whereupon the House proceeded to vote for a Speaker. [Roll No. 2] Long, Md. McCormack Evans, Colo. McDonald Alexander Evans, Ind. McFall Ambro Evins, Tenn. McHugh McKay Macdonald Madden Maguire Mahon Mann Matsunaga Mazzoli Ford, Mich. Meeds Barrett Ford, Tenn. Melcher Baucus Fountain Metcalfe Meyner Mezvinsky Mikva Milford Miller, Calif. Mineta Minish Mitchell, Md. Moakley Moffett Hamilton Mollohan Montgomery Hannaford Moorhead, Pa. Brademas Harkin Morgan Breaux Harrington Moss Motti Murphy, Ill. Hays, Wayne L. Murtha Brown, Calif. Hébert Natcher Burke, Calif. Hechler, W. Va. Neal Burke, Mass. Hefner Nedzi Burleson, Tex. Helstoski Nichols Nolan Oberstar Holtzman Obey O'Hara O'Neill Passman Patman Patten Patterson, Calif. Pattison, N.Y. Cornell Jenrette Pepper Cotter Johnson, Calif. Perkins D'Amours Jones, Ala. Pickle Daniel, Dan Jones, N.C. Pike Daniels, Jones, Okla. Poage Price Randall Rees Reuss Kluczynski Richmond Riegle Risenhoover Roberts Rodino Landrum Roe Rogers Roncalio Rooney Rose Lloyd, Tenn. Rostenkowski Edwards, Calif. Long, La. Roush The following Members-elect voted for Mr. JOHN J. RHODES: Abdnor Frenzel Myers, Ind. Anderson, Ill. Frey Myers, Pa. Andrews, Gilman O'Brien Goodling Peyser Quie Quillen Beard, Tenn. Hagedorn Railsback Bell Hammer- Reguia Biester schmidt Rinaldo Hansen Robinson Brown, Mich. Harsha Rousselot Brown, Ohio Hastings Ruppe Broyhill Heckler, Mass. Sarasin Buchanan Heinz Schneebeli Schulze Shriver Shuster Smith, Nebr. Snyder Johnson, Colo. Spence J. William Steeiman Steiger, Ariz. Kindness Symms Lagomarsino Talcott Taylor, Mo. Thone Treen Vander Jagt W., Jr. McCiory Walsh Derwinski McCloskey Wampler Devine McCollister Whalen Dickinson McDade Whitehurst Duncan, Tenn. McEwen Wiggins du Pont McKinney Wilson, Bob Winn Wydler Wylie Esch Miller, Ohio Young, Alaska Eshleman Mitchell, N.Y. Young, Fia. Fenwick Moore Findley Moorhead, Fish Calif. Forsythe Mosher 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 COMMISSIONER ELECT 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 Answered presentAlbert Rhodes 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 |
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