The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The the clerk i hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Igned, nancy pelosi, speaker perfect house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2019, 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. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Aguilar, for five minutes. Today,ilar mr. Speaker, i rise to honor the life of tim husband, devoted brother, son, and teacher. Working to life save the life of another. Volunteer for the intesan countys search andres could you team, tim searche
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Almighty god, we give you you s for giving us thanks for giving us another day. You have plom missed, o god, you are with us wherever we are and whatever we are doing to heal and to help, to give strength and make us whole. We pray that the members of this assembly, especially, and us all, will be receptive to your promises and receive them with confidence and conviction that armed by your spirit they will be able to forge good legislation which promotes justice, equity, and truth. May we be mindful of all that that all are created in your image. Help us to see your spirit and those who are different from us it in age, color, religion, and all other ways, including in politics. And engage each other with good will and respect. May all that is done today be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the compare compare and announces to the ouse her app
To our speaker. To provide background, in 2012 house passed our office to compile oral histories from current and former numbers of congress involved in the selma to montgomery, alabama marches. We have been conducting interviews related to the Civil Rights Movement with members of congress, their family members house staff, and house pages. We wanted to use our oral histories in a creative way to connect the dots the an event that happened in the country and the corresponding legislative response. We created a documentary short. The documentary is in its final stages of production, so i do not have it today, but the three clips are brought would give you a taste of the documentary. The first is of representative from missouri. The second is cookie roberts, the daughter from louisiana, and the final one is frank mitchell, the first africanamerican page in the 20th century for the house. These are special because they provide personal memories of the Voting Rights act, while allowing us
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The speakers rooms, washington, d. C. July 27, 2015. I hereby appoint the honorable Carlos Curbelo 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 fromliesed submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each partied limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from texas mr. Poe, for five minutes. Mr. Poe mr. Speaker, an armistice was signed 62 years ago today to signify the official end of the korean war, it was july 27, 1953. This first
W. Bush administration. When i was in congress we were able to set aside some differences and accomplish some great things. It was the last time we had a balanced budget and our nation. Back to that. I think there is opportunities that now we can Work Together from whatever political thingsion to get some done, particularly infrastructure but it has to start out, any bipartisanship starts out with a process. You build the framework for an initiative by working with the other party from the very beginning. Bipartisanship is not this is an idea, can we get your support for it . That is not true bipartisanship. I hope we can move in the area of infrastructure with a bipartisan process and outcome so we can do something great and take advantage of this opportunity. You. Thank mirror, you are now the head of the conference on mayors. Contentious election. How has that been reflected at the conference and what do you see from your fellow americans as far as what they expect, need, and want t