Their conversation off the floor. He house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication. Honorable, the speaker. House of representatives, sir, i have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the certificate of election received from the honorable corey stapleton, secretary of state of montana, indicating special election held on may 25, 2017, the honorable greg guillen for at this guillen forte was duly elected to representative of the atlarge congressional district, state of montana. Signed, sincerely, karen l. Haas. The atlarge the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Will representative elect gianforte present himself in the well. All members will rise and the representative elect will please raise his right hand. 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. Mr. Gianforte i do. The speaker congratulations, are you now misdemeanor of the 15th congress. Without objection, the gentleman from california, mr. Mccarthy, is recognized for one minute. Mr. Mccarthy mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman will suspend. He house will be in order. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Mccarthy mr. Speaker, Greg Gianforte is a family man, a businessman, hes been a husband for 29 years. Hes a father of four. And a founder with his wife, susan, right now technologies. Which employs over 500 fellow montanans. Its good to have another Business Owner in this house. Somebody who knows the way the economy works. Who has created jobs and who cares about his local community. Now, montana may only send one member to this body, but out west, its not about how many you are, its about how much you do. Greg is a doer. And were happy to have him here. I yield to the gentleman and the dean of montana. Mr. Gianforte thank you, speaker ryan and majority leader mccarthy. I am humbled and honored to have been elected by the people montana to represent them here in this house. I am joined today by my wife, susan, who is in the gallery, were married 29 years. Ere in this we have four grown children. Two of them with us today. Along with our taughtinlaw. We raised them hunting, fishing, and hiking on the great public lands in montana. Im a business guy and electrical engineer. Im trained to solve hard problems. Not to argue about them. Just to get things done. Susan and i did start a Computer Software company in our home over 20 years ago in boozman, montana. It grew to over 500 employees there and became one of the states largest employers. I am montanas lone voice here in this house. Sent by the people to do the work of the people. And the m. T. Comes before the r or d after my name. I promised the people of montana that i would come back and drain the swamp. Thats why today three of my first actions are a bill, no balance budget, no pay. Term limits. And a ban on lobbying by members of congress after being out of office. We need to bring accountability to washington, d. C. I feel a deep sense of obligation to serve. And i look forward to being a strong voice for all of montana. Thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] three seats still are vacant although all have held special elections so we should see new members sworn in over the next week or so. Congressman gianforte was recently convicted of body slamming a reporter. He was ordered to pay a fine, perform community service, and take anger management training. He receive nod jail time. President trump heads to iowa tonight for a rally with supporters in cedar rapids. Well have the president s comments live at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. In the senate, Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell told reporters a draft of the Republican Health care replacement bill is expected to be released tomorrow. Earlier today, wyoming senator announced the time of 9 30 a. M. Thats eastern time. The bill then expected to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office before official debate on the legislation begins next week. As always, follow the senate live on cspan2. Cspans washington journal. Live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Oming up thursday morning be sure to watch cspans washington journal, live eginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. This weekend on book tv on cspan2. Saturday at noon eastern, from the Franklin Roosevelt president ial library and museum in hyde park, new york, the annual roosevelt reading festival. Featuring presentations about president roosevelt and roosevelt era politics. Authors include steve toomey and his count his book. Gerald even hawkins and her book Geraldine Hawkins and her book. Atherine smith and her book. Lelyveld and his book. The books that i have published the last couple of years are the same kind of odd characters written by an 84, 85yearold guy, that the 24, 25yearold guy was write being when i was that age. Mr. Talese talks about his career over the past 60 years. His books include the kingdom and the power, honor thy father, and unto the sons. I wanted to write about unknown people. I wanted to write about a little woman that maybe fed pigeons in central park or maybe a little woman who cleaned the offices of the Chrysler Building at 4 00 in the morning. Or about some doorman outside the plaza hotel. And what he saw and what he didnt see. I wanted to write about sometimes what it was like to be a bus driver in manhattan or clean the subways at 4 00 in the morning. Those obscure characters that people do not ordinary people do not recognize. I wanted to be a chronicler of those who are unrecognized, untitled. For more of this weekends schedule, go to booktv. Org