Floor Services Chief is the title of the staff member in the

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's or

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's office who runs the majority cloakroom in the

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.Andie Coller, ''25 people you should know on the Hill'', Politico, January 6, 2009
Bridget Johnson, ''Tonight's State of the Union schedule'', The Hill - Blog Briefing Room, January 27, 2010
/ref> The current floor services chief for the Republican Cloakroom is Timothy J. Harroun, appointed by

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Speaker John Boehner. The Democratic floor chief is Barry K. Sullivan, who was appointed by Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi.Mike Allen, Mike Allen's Playbook, January 27, 2010
/ref> Sullivan's predecessor was Donald Anderson, who was appointed by Speaker Thomas P O'Neill. When Harroun is floor services chief, Sullivan is minority cloakroom manager. Similarly, when Sullivan was floor services chief, Harroun was minority cloakroom manager. The position is informally known as the "cloakroom manager", as it has traditionally included responsibility for overseeing the operations of the majority party's cloakroom, such as the snack bar,
/ref>[http://oralhistory.clerk.house.gov/interviewee.html?name=anderson-donn&view=media#anderson-whip_call House Clerk, ''Oral History of the U.S. House of Representatives - Donnald K. Anderson Audio and Video'', 2006] telephones,House Clerk, ''Oral History of the U.S. House of Representatives - Glenn Rupp Interview 2 - April 28, 2005'', 2005
/ref> and clothing storage.

Added responsibilities, 2007–2010

From the

2007 State of the Union Address The 2007 State of the Union Address was given by the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush, on January 23, 2007, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 110th United States Congress. It ...

through the

2010 State of the Union Address The 2010 State of the Union Address was given by the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, on January 27, 2010, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 111th United States Congress. It w ...

(i.e. the 110th and 111th Congresses), the floor services chief announced the entry of the: *

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and Senate *

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(or acting dean) * chief justice of the United States and the

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s *the Cabinet at each

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that the president addressed (i.e., excluding the joint session for the counting of electoral votes).''S. Boston native gets the call'', Boston Globe, January 24, 2007
/ref>Congressional Record, January 27, 2010, H415
/ref>See transcript a
C-SPAN, Electoral Vote Count Certification
/ref> When the president spoke at a joint session, the floor services chief and the House sergeant at arms together announced his presence, with the floor services chief loudly stating the phrase: "Madame Speaker" (this responsibility existed only under Speaker Nancy Pelosi), to which the sergeant at arms rejoined: "The President of the United States." (The announcement of the president has been solely the role of the House Sergeant at Arms since 2011, as it was before 2007, when Floor Services Chief Barry K. Sullivan was accorded the responsibility of uttering the first part by Speaker Pelosi.) During the six joint meetings of Congress (bicameral gatherings at which the president did not speak, but at which a foreign

head of state A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state Foakes, pp. 110–11 " he head of statebeing an embodiment of the State itself or representatitve of its international persona." in its unity and l ...

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did) in the 110th and 111th Congresses, the floor services chief likewise announced all of the other persons listed above.See Transcript a
C-SPAN, ''German Chancellor Address to Joint Meeting of Congress''
/ref> Then, unlike in a joint session, the floor services chief alone performed the complete announcement of the foreign head of government, while the House sergeant at arms simply physically escorted the visiting dignitary to the speaker's rostrum.

References

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