Minutes for an Opening Statement to the happy halloween, everybody. Im dressed as americas most maligned superhero, congressman, able to fly across the country in six hours on alaska airlines. [laughter] we were thinking about titling this hearing frankenstein how the house mailing standards have haunted members for decades, but i suppose we should go to the official un spooky title for the record. Likeue most of the issues that fall into the committees mandate and work of the house he commission on the congressional mailing standards it is very inside baseball. To most people, frank is a name or a hot dog but the reality is for members of congress the congressional frank is actually fundamental to how we communicate with our constituency and every time we respond to the requests were sent newsletters or notices about upcoming townhomes we used to frank and its no surprise with the rise of social media, congress has seen an overall decline. Ten years ago it spent an averae of 58,000 on
We are standing in the central gallery of the National Museum of American Indians exhibition titled americans. This explores the nature of the American Peoples relationship with American Indians. Its based on the premise that most American People think they have nothing to do with American Indians and that American Indians have nothing to do with them. We usually exact opposite is true. Americans and American Indians share a deeply in tangled history. This shaped United States of america, and had a profound and Lasting Impact on American National consciousness and popular culture. When standing in the central gallery, which we call indians everywhere you this large gallery is covered floor to ceiling with images. This imagery is pervasive in americans lives. Most American People are conscious that anywhere you look you will find imagery of American Indians. We are offering that this imagery exists as evidence of the deeply entangled history that americans and American Indians share. In
Of the 1940 and i learned them in school. That is how we learned history, the books out of the Library Fourth and fifth grade or with the way history was taught. When i got to graduate school n the 1960s i discovered that some of my fellow students from overseas would come to me periodically and say who is this joe and why should he say it int so. O i told them the story. Then much later a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients, when they see me what is up doc and laugh maniacally. People under 30 had no real idea of what these slogans and catch phrases meant, where they came from or why people used hem. I decided there is a book and i should write it and i started a long time ago. As i wrote one slogan or catch phrase at a time i realized there were a number of questions that i was going to need to answer if i was going to really pursue the book and finish it. Because i was writing the history the way i wanted to, the indepth
Remember because i was a child of the 1940 and i learned them in school. That is how we learned history, the books out f tof the Library Fourth and fifth grade or with the way history was taught. When i got to graduate school in the 1960s i discovered that some of my fellow students from overseas would come to me periodically and say who is this joe and why should he say it aint so. So i told them the story. Then much later a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients when they see me what is up doc and laugh maniac maniacally. People under 30 had no real idea of what these slogans and catch phrases meant, where they came from or why people used them. I decided there is a book and i should write it and i started a long time ago. As i wrote one slogan or catch phrase at a time i realized there were a number of questions that i was going to need to answer if i was going to really pursue the book and finish it. Because i was writing
Legislative work will get underway at noon eastern. Legislate is considering terminating the Emergency Declaration for the southern border. Now the live coverage of the house here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , september 26, 2019. Hereby appoint the honorable brenda l. Lawrence to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the 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