March 12, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable debbie lesko to act as speaker pro tpore on this day. Signed m johnson speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house ofuary 9 2024, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitty the majority and minority leaders for morningour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between t parties and each member other than the majority and minority leade and the minority whip limited to five nutes. But in no event shall continue beyond 11 50. M. The chair recognizes the ntleman from new mexico,. Vasquez, for five minutes. Mr. Vasquez thankou, madam speaker. I rise today to pay tributeo a remarkable leader and cherished member of my district and the communy from the vlage of hatch, the chili capital of the james slim which the lock. Last whitlock. Last year i had the prilege of meeting mayor whitlock. It becamevident that slim wasnt just
And n no event shalle cont beyon 5m. Acmembertherhae minoritern dority whiplle d to fe minut gentlewon fromaschetts, ms. Clark, for five minutes. Ms. Clark thank you, mr. Speaker. Next week is the fifth Year Anniversary of the horrific shootings at the Sandy Hook School in newtown, connecticut. And for a brief moment it looked like we would actually honor those victims by voting on a bill that would improve background checks to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals. We should never have gotten our hopes up. There is one winner in the house and its the gun lobby. The majority has combined a background check bill with a bill that helps move forward the gun lobbys ultimate agenda, gutting states gun laws. This bill forces every state to accept the concealed carry laws every other state, including the 12 states that dont even require a permit to carry a oncealed weapon. Every other in public. Even into a school. Lets take one example of the dangerousness of this bill. A woman i
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