H2284 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE May 17, 2001 Capito Hulshof Pombo NAYS—68 SWEARING IN OF THE HONORABLE Capps Hyde Portman Aderholt Hutchinson Pastor BILL SHUSTER OF PENNSYL- Cardin Inslee Price (NC) Baird Jackson-Lee Peterson (MN) Carson (IN) Isakson Pryce (OH) VANIA AS A MEMBER OF THE Bonior (TX) Pomeroy Carson (OK) Israel Putnam Brown (FL) Johnson, E. B. Ramstad HOUSE Castle Issa Quinn Radanovich Capuano Jones (OH) Rothman Mr. ARMEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask Chabot Istook Condit Kaptur Sabo Chambliss Jackson (IL) Rahall unanimous consent that the gentleman Regula Costello Kennedy (MN) Sanchez Clay Jenkins Crane Kucinich Schaffer from (Mr. BILL SHUSTER) Clayton John Rehberg Reyes Crowley LaFalce Slaughter be permitted to take the oath of office Clement Johnson (IL) Cummings LaHood Stark Clyburn Johnson, Sam Reynolds today. Riley DeFazio Larsen (WA) Stenholm Coble Jones (NC) DeLauro Lee Strickland The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Collins Kanjorski Rivers Rodriguez Evans LoBiondo Stupak the request of the gentleman from Combest Keller Filner McDermott Sweeney Texas? Conyers Kelly Roemer Rogers (KY) Frost McGovern Tanner Cooksey Kennedy (RI) There was no objection. Rogers (MI) Gutierrez McNulty Taylor (MS) Cox Kerns The SPEAKER. Will the Representa- Rohrabacher Gutknecht Menendez Thompson (CA) Coyne Kildee Ros-Lehtinen Hall (OH) Miller, George Thompson (MS) tive-elect and the Members of the Cramer Kind (WI) Ross Hastings (FL) Moore Thurman Pennsylvania delegation present them- Crenshaw King (NY) Hefley Oberstar Udall (NM) Roukema selves in the well of the House and take Culberson Kingston Royce Hilliard Obey Visclosky Cunningham Kirk Rush Hinchey Olver Waters the oath of office. Davis (CA) Knollenberg Ryan (WI) Holt Pallone Wu Mr. SHUSTER appeared at the bar of Davis (FL) Kolbe Ryun (KS) the House and took the oath of office, Davis (IL) Lampson ANSWERED ‘‘PRESENT’’—1 Sandlin as follows: Davis, Jo Ann Langevin Sawyer Tancredo Davis, Tom Lantos Do you solely swear that you will Saxton NOT VOTING—26 Deal Largent Scarborough support and defend the Constitution of DeGette Larson (CT) Schakowsky Borski Hayworth McKinney the against all enemies, Delahunt Latham Schiff Boucher Herger Moakley DeLay LaTourette Schrock Brady (PA) Hunter Rangel foreign and domestic; that you will DeMint Levin Scott Cubin Jefferson Roybal-Allard bear true faith and allegiance to the Deutsch Lewis (CA) Sensenbrenner Doyle Johnson (CT) Sanders same; that you will take this obliga- Diaz-Balart Lewis (GA) Serrano English Kilpatrick Weller tion freely, without any mental res- Dicks Lewis (KY) Sessions Ganske Kleczka Wicker Dingell Linder Shadegg Gilman Leach Young (AK) ervation or purpose of evasion; and Doggett Lipinski Shaw Gordon Lucas (OK) that you will well and faithfully dis- Dooley Lofgren Shays charge the duties of the office on which Doolittle Lowey Sherman b 1027 you are about to enter. So help you Dreier Lucas (KY) Sherwood Duncan Luther Shimkus So the Journal was approved. God. Dunn Maloney (CT) Shows The result of the vote was announced The SPEAKER. Congratulations. You Edwards Maloney (NY) Simmons as above recorded. are now a Member of the 107th Con- Simpson Ehlers Manzullo Stated for: gress of the United States. Ehrlich Markey Skeen Emerson Mascara Skelton Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. f Engel Matheson Smith (MI) 122 I was unavoidably detained. Had I been Eshoo Matsui Smith (NJ) b 1030 Smith (TX) present, I would have voted ‘‘yea.’’ Etheridge McCarthy (MO) INTRODUCTION OF BILL SHUSTER, Everett McCarthy (NY) Smith (WA) Snyder f Farr McCollum NEW MEMBER FROM PENNSYL- Solis Fattah McCrery VANIA Souder COMMUNICATION FROM THE Ferguson McHugh Spence (Mr. GEKAS asked and was given Flake McInnis CLERK OF THE HOUSE Spratt Fletcher McIntyre permission to address the House for 1 Stearns The SPEAKER laid before the House Foley McKeon minute and to revise and extend his re- Stump the following communication from the Ford Meehan marks.) Sununu Clerk of the House of Representatives: Fossella Meek (FL) Tauscher Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, it is my Frank Meeks (NY) Tauzin OFFICE OF THE CLERK, Frelinghuysen Mica honor and extreme privilege to intro- Taylor (NC) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Gallegly Millender- duce the newest Member of the House Terry Washington, DC, May 17, 2001. Gekas McDonald Thomas Hon. J. DENNIS HASTERT, to its Members here. He succeeds an in- Gephardt Miller (FL) Thornberry dividual who has become anonymous Gibbons Miller, Gary Thune The Speaker, House of Representatives, Wash- Gilchrest Mink Tiahrt ington, DC. and who is little known in this Cham- Gillmor Mollohan Tiberi DEAR MR. SPEAKER: I have the honor to ber but, despite that, we will present Gonzalez Moran (KS) Tierney transmit herewith a copy of the unofficial him with the distinction that he car- Goode Moran (VA) Toomey results received from Dick Filling, Commis- ries a name that has been a part of our Goodlatte Morella Towns sioner, Bureau of Commissions, Elections traditions for many, many years. He is, Goss Murtha Traficant and Legislation, Commonwealth of Pennsyl- Graham Myrick Turner of course, the son of . vania, indicating that, according to the unof- Granger Nadler Udall (CO) ficial results of the Special Election held on Beyond that, he, as an individual, Graves Napolitano Upton was elected in the heart of Pennsyl- Green (TX) Neal Velazquez May 15, 2001, the Honorable Bill Shuster was Green (WI) Nethercutt Vitter elected to the Office of Representative in vania, was born and raised in that area, Greenwood Ney Walden Congress, from the Ninth Congressional Dis- in Hollidaysburg, where he went to Grucci Northup Walsh trict, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. school and became a star athlete in Hall (TX) Norwood Wamp With best wishes, I am, Watkins three varsity sports, and who then Hansen Nussle Sincerely, Harman Ortiz Watt (NC) went to . And by the JEFF TRANDAHL, Hart Osborne Watts (OK) way, what that does is double the num- Clerk. Hastings (WA) Ose Waxman ber of Dickinson College graduates of Hayes Otter Weiner Attachment. Weldon (FL) this body in the Dickinson College Cau- Hill Owens SPECIAL ELECTION, REPRESENTATIVE IN THE Hilleary Oxley Weldon (PA) cus, which I chair. Then he went and Wexler U.S. CONGRESS, 9TH CONGRESSIONAL DIS- Hinojosa Pascrell received a master’s degree from Amer- Whitfield TRICT, COUNTIES OF BEDFORD, BLAIR, CEN- Hobson Paul Wilson TRE, CLEARFIELD, FRANKLIN, FULTON, HUN- ican University. All the way up, he Hoeffel Payne Wolf TINGDON, JUNIATA, MIFFLIN, PERRY AND worked as a farm laborer, as a con- Hoekstra Pelosi Woolsey Holden Pence SNYDER, MAY 15, 2001 struction worker, in various busi- Wynn Peterson (PA) Honda Young (FL) Unofficial Results nesses, until, at the time of his elec- Hooley Petri Vote Totals tion, he was an entrepreneur in the Horn Phelps automobile business. Hostettler Pickering Republican—Bill Shuster ...... 55,549 Houghton Pitts Democratic—H. Scott Conklin .... 47,049 His two children, who are with him, Hoyer Platts Green—Alanna K. Hartzok ...... 4,420 Ali, age 13, and Garrett, who is nine,