The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor Kenneth Codner, great baptist church, bellefonte, pennsylvania. The chaplain please bow with me in prayer. Heavenly father, i am humbled to be able to stand before you on behalf of this assembly here today. Lord, we are sinners, deserving none of your favor. But, father, i come to you in the merit of the lord and savior, jesus christ, who washed me from my sins in his shed blood. Father, we are aware more than any of the bitterness and bitter divisiveness throughout this room and across this nation of ours. I know that this grieves your heart, father. And i pray that we would repent of our sins, that you might forgive them and heal this land of ours. I pray that youll work in the hearts of the members of congress, that they be willing to put aside their political expedience and partisan politics and personal agendas, that they would strive to do what is best for our nation as a
I hereby appoint the honorable evan h. Jenkins to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than thmari a mory leade and the noty whip limited to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. For more than 70 years our government has followed the most spectacular failure in policy since disastrous 13year experiment with the prohibition of alcohol. 43 years ago the National Commission on marijuana and drug abuse released a report finding that the federal ban on marijuan
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