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Xavier Becerra: I offer an amendment to the remainder of the resolution. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk…

On the recordJanuary 6, 2015
I offer an amendment to the remainder of the resolution. The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Amendment offered by Mr. Becerra: That Drew Hammill of the District of Columbia be, and is hereby, chosen Clerk of the House of Representatives; That Wendell Primus of the Commonwealth of Virginia be, and is hereby, chosen Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives; and That Nadeam Elshami of the Commonwealth of Virginia be, and is hereby, chosen Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives. The SPEAKER. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California. The amendment was rejected. The SPEAKER. The question is on the remainder of the resolution offered by the gentlewoman from Washington. The remainder of the resolution was agreed to. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. The SPEAKER. The Chair will now swear in the officers of the House. The officers presented themselves in the well of the House and took the oath of office as follows: Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you God. The SPEAKER. Congratulations.…
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Xavier Becerra
Democratic · California
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Jan 6, 2015

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