To serve you as we seek to keep america the land of the free and the home of the brave. Abide with our lawmakers, be their companion as they labor to keep this nation strong. Drive away all snares of the enemy, and may no weapon formed against them be able to prosper. Make our senators models of excellence and integrity for our nation and world. We pray in your great name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the Senate Majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President , let me quote from a letter i recently received from our colleagues across the aisle. Heres what they said were writing to reiterate our interest in working cooperatively to facilitate the fiscal year 2017 appropriations process. As we see it,
Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 2:28 pm
Missouri State Patrolman Jimmie Linegar was killed near Branson on April 15, 1985, after being shot four times with an automatic weapon by a member of the violent neo-Nazi group called The Order. Linegar was one of 716 members of law enforcement who have died in the line of duty in Missouri since records were kept. They are listed on the Missouri Law Enforcement Wall of Honor in Jefferson City.
Last weekend, a law enforcement member close to home was added to the memorial that pays tribute to the officers who perished in the line of duty. Richard Allen Wright, who worked at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, was one of four officers who died of COVID-19 in the line of duty during 2020.