I do solemnly swear... 

PELOSI SWEARS IN ACKERMAN Congressmember Gary Ackerman (D-Bayside) last Thursday, January 4, chartered a bus to take constituents from Queens and Long Island as well as local elected officials such as Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, to Washington, D.C. for the day for the swearing-in of the new Congress. Ackerman was sworn in by new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

WEINER INVITES FATHER, AUNT TO SWEARING-IN CEREMONY Congressmember Anthony Weiner (D-Queens/Brooklyn, second from r.) was joined by his father and aunt for the swearing in of the 110th Congress and the election of Nancy Pelosi as the first woman Speaker of the House. Weiner, shown being sworn in by Pelosi as his father holds the bible, is entering his fifth term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

VELAZQUEZ SWORN IN, INTRODUCES BILL PACKAGE On January 4, Congressmember Nydia M. Velázquez (D-Queens/Brooklyn/Manhattan, r.) was officially sworn in to the 110th Congress. Her first act immediately afterward was to introduce a legislative package to address a number of the ongoing concerns that New York City families and small businesses have been faced with over the past several years.

STATE CHIEF JUSTICE SWEARS IN STAVISKY Chief Justice Judith Kaye (r.), the first woman to head New York state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, administered the oath of office to state Senator Toby Ann Stavisky. Stavisky, the first woman elected to the state senate from Queens, was re-elected to her fifth term in November.

LANCMAN ASKS SCHOOL KIDS, SCHUMER TO SWEARING-IN Assemblymember Rory Lancman (back row, r.), representing the 25th Assembly District, invited the Aquinas Society of the Immaculate Conception School of Jamaica Estates to his swearing in ceremony on Sunday, January 7 at St. John's University. United States Senator Charles Schumer (back row, l.) was present as a special guest.

ELLEN YOUNG IS SWORN IN TO STATE ASSEMBLY On Sunday, January 7, colleagues from all levels of local, state and federal government joined freshman Assemblymember Ellen Young to celebrate her swearing in as the first Asian American woman elected to the New York state Assembly.