HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, January 6, 1981 the House Met at 12 O'clock Noon
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192 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE J(lnuary 6, 1981 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-Tuesday, January 6, 1981 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the 0 1300 The Chaplain, Rev. James David provisions of Senate Concurrent Reso The joint session was called to order Ford, D.O., offered the following lution 2, 97th Congress, the Chair ap by the Vice President. prayer: points as members of the joint com mittee to make the necessary arrange The VICE PRESIDENT. Mr. Speak We raise our voices to You, 0 God, er, Members of the Congress, the in thankfulness and praise -in the ments for the inauguration of the President-elect and the Vice-President Senate and the House of Representa bounty You have given our Nation and tives, pursuant to the requirements of the multitude of ways by which the elect of the United States on the 20th day of January 1981, the following the Constitution and the laws of the people have been blessed. United States, have met in joint ses Since the birth of our country we Members on the part of the House: Mr. RHODES, of Arizona; Mr. MICHEL, sion for the purpose of opening the have celebrated Your abiding presence certificates and ascertaining and in all the circumstances of life-in of Illinois; Mr. O'NEILL, of Massachu setts; and Mr. WRIGHT, of Texas. counting the votes of the electors of good times and in bad, in our laughter the several States for President and and in our tears. We pray that Your Vice President. Spirit will continue to be known in our SWEARING IN OF MEMBER Under the precedents, unless a lives through the words of judgment ELECT motion shall be made in any case, the and forgiveness and assurance and reading of the formal portions of the peace. Be with us each day, 0 God, The SPEAKER. Will the gentleman certificates will be dispensed with. and strenghten us to do Your will, from Ohio <Mr. BROWN) kindly come After ascertainment has been made that justice will roll down like waters to the well of the House and take the that the certificates are authentic and and righteousness like an even flowing oath of office at this time? correct in form, the tellers will count stream. Amen. Mr. BROWN of Ohio appeared at and make a list of the votes cast by the bar of the House and took the the electors of the several States. THE JOURNAL oath of office. The tellers on the part of the two The SPEAKER. The Chair has ex Houses will take their respective amined the Journal of the last day's RECESS places at the Clerk's desk. proceedings and announces to the The tellers, Mr. MATHIAS and Mr. House his approval thereof. The SPEAKER. The House will FoRD on the part of the Senate, and Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the stand in recess until12:50 p.m. Mr. HAWKINS and Mr. DICKINSON on Journal stands approved. Accordingly <at 12 o'clock and 5 min the part of the House, took their utes p.m.), the House stood in recess places at the desk. until 12 o'clock and 50 minutes p.m. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair INAUGURATION CEREMONIES OF will now hand to the tellers the certifi PRESIDENT-ELECT AND VICE cates of the electors for President and PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE AFTER RECESS Vice President of the State of Ala UNITED STATES The recess having expired, the bama, and they will count and make a The SPEAKER laid before the House was called to order by the list of the votes cast by that State. House a Senate concurrent resolution Speaker at 12 o'clock and 50 minutes Mr. DICKINSON <one of the tell <S. Con. Res. 2), which was read by the p.m. ers). Mr. President, the certificate of Clerk, as follows: the electoral vote of the State of Ala S. CON. RES. 2 bama seems to be regular in form and Resolved by the Senate <the House of Rep 0 1250 authentic, and it appears therefrom resentatives concurring), That effective that Ronald Reagan of the State of from January 5, 1981, the joint committee COUNTING ELECTORAL VOTES California received nine votes for created by Senate Concurrent Resolution JOINT SESSION OF THE HOUSE President, and GEORGE BUSH of the 84, of the Ninety-Sixth Congress, to make AND SENATE HELD PURSUANT State of Texas received nine votes for the necessary arrangements for the inaugu TO THE PROVISIONS OF ration of the President-elect and Vice Presi Vice President. SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLU The VICE PRESIDENT. There dent-elect of the United States on the 20th TION! day of January 1981, is hereby continued being no objection, the Chair will omit and for such purpose shall have the same At 12 o'clock and 50 minutes p.m., in further procedure the formal state power and authority as that conferred by the Doorkeeper, the Honorable James ment just made for the State of Ala such Senate Concurrent Resolution 84, of T. Molloy, announced the Vice Presi bama, and we will open the certificates the Ninety-sixth Congress, except that the dent and the Senate of the United in alphabetical order and pass to the size of the Joint Committee is hereby in creased to consist of four Senators and four States. tellers the certificates showing the Representatives to be appointed by the The Senate entered the Hall of the vote of the electors in each State; and President of the Senate and the Speaker of House of Representatives, headed by the tellers will then read, count, and the House of Representatives, respectively. the Vice President and the Secretary announce the result in each State as The SPEAKER. Is there objection of the Senate, the Members and offi was done in the case of the State of to the present consideration of the cers of the House rising to receive Alabama. Senate concurrent resolution? them. Is there objection? There was no objection. The Vice President took his seat as The Chair hears no objection. The Senate concurrent resolution the Presiding Officer of the joint con There was no objection. was concurred in. vention of the two Houses, the Speak The tellers then proceeded to read, A motion to reconsider was laid on er of the House occupying the chair count, and announce, as was done in the table. on his left. the case of the State of Alabama, the 0 This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., 0 1407 is 2:07 p.m. e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. January 6, 1981 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 193 electoral votes of the several States in States, as delivered to the President of ing to a slowing of the growth of our alphabetical order. the Senate, is as follows: real gross national product; The whole number of the electors Serious underinvestment, aggravat 0 1320 appointed to vote for President of the ing a failure to achieve a reasonable The VICE PRESIDENT. Gentlemen United States is 538, of which a major strategy for long-run economic and gentlewomen of the Congress, the ity is 270. growth; certificates of all of the States have Ronald Reagan, of the State of Cali Negative productivity growth in the now been opened and read and the fomia, has received for President of American business sector in the past tellers will make the final ascertain the United States 489 votes; year and the lowest productivity ment of the results and deliver the Jimmy Carter, of the State of Geor growth of any industrial nation the same to the Vice President. gia, has received 49 votes. past 10 years as the American manu The tellers delivered to the Vice The state of the vote for Vice Presi facturing plant continues to age; and President the following statement of dent of the United States, as delivered A continuing gnawing problem of the results: to the President of the Senate, is as heavy structural unemployment, espe The undersigned, CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, follows: cially among blacks and teenagers. JR. and WENDELL H. FoRD, tellers on the The whole number of the electors Clearly, the major economic con part of the Senate, AuGusTus F. HAWKINS appointed to vote for Vice President of cerns of Americans today are inflation, and WILLIAM L. DICKINSON, tellers on the the United States is 538, of which a taxes, Federal deficits, Government part of the House of Representatives, report majority is ·270. the following as the result of the ascertain regulation, and structural unemploy GEORGE BUSH, of the State of Texas, ment. ment and counting of the electoral vote for has received for Vice President of the President and Vice President of the United Today, as ranking House minority States for the term beginning on the twenti United States 489 votes; member of the Joint Economic Com eth day of January, nineteen hundred and WALTER F. MONDALE, of the State of mittee, I am introducing a package of eighty-one. Minnesota, has received 49 votes. legislation which can serve as a Re This announcement of the state of publican economic program to solve Elector. For President For VICe the vote by the President of the President Senate shall be deemed a sufficient the foregoing list of economic ills. The al goal of the package is to stimulate eco States votes Ronald Jimmy George Walter declaration of the persons elected 0 nomic growth and curb inflation.