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No. 12, January 3, 2013 HOUSE RECORD First Year of the 163rd General Court State of Calendar and Journal of the 2013 Session New Hampshire Web Site Address: www.gencourt.state.nh.us Vol. 35 Concord, N.H. Thursday, January 3, 2013 No. 12X HOUSE JOURNAL No. 2 (Cont.) Wednesday, January 2, 2013 Rep. Pantelakos moved that the House adjourn. Adopted. HOUSE JOURNAL No. 3 Thursday, January 3, 2013 The House assembled at 11:00 a.m., the hour to which it stood adjourned, and was called to order by the Speaker. Prayer was offered by House Chaplain, Reverend Jared A. Rardin, Pastor of the South Congregational Church in Concord. Good Morning. This morning’s prayer is a slight adaptation of a prayer that was included in a collection of prayers for the new Millennium entitled Prayers for a Thousand Years. The author of the original prayer was Rabia Terri Harris. Let us pause from the smaller worries of today and open ourselves in silence to the grandeur of life and of God. Creator of the Universe, preserve us from our own presumptions. Do not let us close ourselves into ourselves, but open us continually into You and into the wider truth of Your world and Your peoples. Let us seek You more than our notions of You. Let us stop claiming to know everything so that we may understand something and something new. Increase in us kindness. Make us leaders who care and who take care, who venerate the truth and recognize You and honor one another. In Your Holy name we pray. Amen. Representative Laura Pantelakos, member from Portsmouth, led the Pledge of Allegiance. LEAVES OF ABSENCE Reps. Ronald Belanger, Bishop, Booras, Burke, Fesh, LaPlante, Lavender, Major, Mary Nelson, Russell Ober and Amy Perkins, the day, illness. Reps. Allen, Arsenault, Bailey, Beaudoin, Beaulieu, James Belanger, Bickford, Birdsell, Briden, Bouchard, Burdwood, Burns, Burridge, Burt, Burtis, Butler, Byron, Charron, Chase, Chirichiello, Coffey, Cooney, Co- peland, Crawford, DeSimone, Dobson, Donovan, Duarte, Richard Eaton, Emerick, Rebecca Emerson-Brown, Enman, Fink, Flanders, Friel, Larry Gagne, Bianca Garcia, Marilinda Garcia, Gardner, Ginsburg, Gottling, Grace, Grassie, Greemore, Groen, Grossman, Gulick, Hackel, Haefner, Hansen, Henle, Hess, Higgins, Hodgdon, Hoelzel, Holmes, Hubbard, Jane Hunt, John Hunt, Jane Johnson, Jones, Sally Kelly, Ketel, Kidder, Knowles, Lerandeau, Richard LeVasseur, Ley, Lockwood, Lovett, Mariellen MacKay, John Mann, Maureen Mann, Mer- row, McConkey, Carol McGuire, Dan McGuire, McKinney, McMahon, Meaney, Bill Nelson, Notter, O’Hearne, Oligny, Packard, Parison, Parkhurst, Parsons, Pastor, Patten, Peckham, Pelletier, Pitre, Rappaport, Reilly, Rhodes, Chip Rice, Rideout, Herbert Richardson, Rose Marie Rogers, Sad, Sanders, Janice Schmidt, Stephen Schmidt, Schroadter, Schuett, Steven Smith, Todd Smith, Spainhower, Spang, Daniel Sullivan, Sylvia, Sytek, Takesian, Tamburello, Thompson, Franklin Tilton, Vail, Verschueren, Villeneuve, Thomas Walsh, Gerald Ward, Warden, Waterhouse, Webb, Weyler, Carol Williams and Worsman, the day, important business. Reps. Lynne Ober and Lawrence Perkins, the day, illness in the family. INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS Tammy Siekmann, guest of Rep. Whittemore. Ellen Fineberg, guest of Speaker Norelli. 177 3 JANUARY 2013 HOUSE RECORD RESOLUTION Reps. Cote and Comerford offered the following: RESOLVED, that the House of Representatives notify the Honorable Senate that it is ready to meet in Joint Convention for the purposes of hearing the report of the Joint Committee appointed to compare and count the votes for Governor and Executive Council, for the In- auguration of the Governor and for the taking of the oath by the Executive Council. Adopted. SENATE MESSAGE The Senate is now ready to meet with the Honorable House of Representatives in Joint Convention for the purpose of hearing the report of the Joint Committee appointed to compare and count the votes for Governor and Executive Council, for the Inauguration of the Governor, the Honorable Margaret Wood Hassan, and for the taking of the oath by the Executive Council. JOINT CONVENTION (Speaker Norelli presiding) REPORT Reps. Kaen, Shurtleff and Chandler and Sens. Bradley and Larsen offered the following report: The Joint Committee appointed to compare and count the votes for Governor and Executive Council reports that it has attended to its duties and the vote is correct. INTRODUCTION AND SEATING OF SPECIAL GUESTS The Sergeant-at-Arms introduced the following special guests who were escorted to their seats by Aides-de- camp: Family and friends of Governor-Elect Hassan. Mayor of Concord, Hon. James Bouley. Commissioners and Department Heads. Assistant Administrative Judge of the New Hampshire Circuit Court, Hon. David D. King. Administrative Judge of the New Hampshire Circuit Court, Hon. Edwin Kelly. Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court, Hon. Tina Nadeau. Associate Justices of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, Hon. James P. Basset, Hon. Robert J. Lynn and the Hon. Carol Ann Conboy. Senior Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, Hon. Gary E. Hicks. Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, Hon. Linda S. Dalianis. United States District Court Judges for the District of New Hampshire, Hon. Landya McCafferty, Hon. Joseph N. Laplante and the Hon. Paul J. Barbadoro. Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, Hon. Steven J. McAuliffe. New Hampshire Attorney General, Hon. Michael Delaney. Leadership of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Former New Hampshire Congressman, Hon. Paul Hodes and his wife, Peggo Hodes. Hon. William H. Shaheen and his daughter, Stefany Shaheen. United States Senator, Hon. Kelly Ayotte. Mrs. Dorothy Peterson and her son, the Hon. Andrew Peterson. Governor John H. Sununu and his wife, Nancy Sununu. Governor Stephen E. Merrill. Governor Craig Benson and his wife, Denise Benson. New Hampshire State Treasurer, Hon. Cath- erine Provencher. New Hampshire Secretary of State, Hon. William Gardner. The Reverend Clergy. Retiring Executive Councilor representing District 2, Hon. Daniel St. Hilaire. Retiring Executive Councilor represent- ing District 4, Hon. Raymond J. Wieczorek. Executive Councilor representing District 1, Hon. Raymond S. Burton. Executive Councilor-Elect representing District 2, Colin Van Ostern. Executive Councilor representing District 3, Hon. Christopher T. Sununu. Executive Councilor-Elect representing District 4, Hon. Christopher Pappas. Executive Councilor-Elect representing District 5, Hon. Debora Pignatelli. Governor John H. Lynch and his wife, Dr. Susan Lynch. Governor-Elect Hassan’s mother, sister and brother, Margaret, Franny and Frank Wood. Governor-Elect Hassan’s son and daughter, Benjamin and Margaret Hassan, accompanied by Joyce Averill and Elizabeth Halliday. Governor-Elect Margaret Wood Hassan and her husband, Thomas E. Hassan were introduced and escorted to the rostrum by Major General William N. Reddel III, the Adjutant General of the State of New Hampshire. INVOCATION Offered by the Reverend Canon Charles LaFond, Canon for Congregational Life of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. Blessed are You, Lord God of the Cosmos, for You brood over us as a mother hen broods over her young. You make all things new and so we begin this new year and this new work together as leaders in New Hampshire. Lay Your warm, gentle, loving hand on us and most especially on Maggie Hassan, her family, her counselors and her staff; with blessings of strength in adversity, comfort in conflict, rest in accomplishment, wisdom in choice- making and courage in the face of manipulation. So enliven our hearts and invigorate our souls that we work as hard for the financially poor as for the financially powerful. Give to all those in power an ability to see the difference between what is important and what is simply urgent. Reduce our ego and increase our hope. And, so from The Connecticut River to the Salmon Falls River and from Franconia Notch to the Can- terbury Shaker Village, bless this land; her farmers and her Senators, her workers and her representatives, her Governor and her most recent new-born; and all for Your love’s sake for You are gracious, oh, lover of souls, cradling us always in the arms of Your loving embrace. Amen. 3 JANUARY 2013 HOUSE RECORD 178 POSTING OF COLORS Members of the Colonial Color Guard and the New Hampshire National Guard Honor Guard posted the Colors. They were assisted in the House Chamber by the Governor’s Horse Guards, Mounted Ceremonial Unit. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Chief Warrant Officer of the National Guard, Charlie Morgan of New Durham led the Pledge of Allegiance. NATIONAL ANTHEM The National Anthem was sung by Briana Nadeau of Durham. PRAYER FOR PEACE AND THANKSGIVING Offered by Rabbi Jonathan Spira-Savett of Temple Beth Abraham in Nashua. Holy One, Life of the Universe who gives us life, Merciful One who weaves all of us together in love, we thank You for this gathering of freedom and peace. Each person in this state is a migrant from tyranny, whether four hundred years ago in family memory or just this year in person. Just to sit here, brothers and sisters together, citizens and those who govern us, is a miracle that so few like us have known in the whole history of humanity. Let us be thankful today, for two things unusual and one more obvious that may bless us, through those taking solemn oaths today. Let us be thankful for ambition. It is said in the Talmud that one day the people captured desire and envy and threw them into a cage, but that day no work was done, no egg was laid, no child conceived. Thank you, our leaders, for your powerful ambitions which have driven you to campaign and lead and push you to succeed. May you always tie those ambitions to your visions, and to our needs. Let us be thankful for opponents. In Hebrew, the word for gratitude is the same as the word for conceding to a better argument and it is said in the Jewish tradition that a wise person should be a lover of rebuke.
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