Benefit pension, and now they are seeing the possibility that that could result in up to a 90 cut in their benefits. Over the past several years weve been working on this, ive been involved with it. Ive been working on the finance committee which is the committee here in the senate that has responsibility for this issue. In 2018, going back two years ago now, iowas participating in hearings as a member of the joint committee on solvency of multiemployer Pension Plans. It was a oneyear committee. House and senate, republican and democrat. Woe were we were supposed to get to a solution for this problem before it gets worse. We spent countless hours trying to do that. I spent countless hours in meetings, with beneficiaries, retirees, spouses. Ohio is one of the states thats hardest hit. I have heard their stories about how years of mismanaged Pension Plans have put them on the hook for unthinkable cuts into pensions that they just assumed were going to be there. Let me spell out how preca
Lets turn to south africa were Rescue Workers have been trying to save people trapped under the rubble of a building. Save people trapped under the rubble ofa building. Nearly save people trapped under the rubble of a building. Nearly a0 of the 75 workers who are on site remain unaccounted for. The structure collapsed in the south african city of georgia on monday. The authorities in the western cape sees seven people are confirmed to have died. The cause of the collapse which happened while the building was under construction is being investigated. The Rescue Effort includes two people with Sniffer Dogsin includes two people with sniffer dogs in heavy lifting equipment. The president is called for an investigation into the collapse and assumptions condolences and we can show you the live shot the scene in george where those Rescue Efforts are continuing in the hope still that people can be found alive under the rubble. We can hearfrom the west cape of south africa. You the rubble. We
Ipinski, pelosi. Meeks. Ryan of wisconsin. Ryan of wisconsin. Webster of florida. Ebster of florida. The clerk boehner. The speaker ryan. The clerk ryan. The speaker if there are any members who did not answer the call of the roll, they i may come to the well and vote at this time. The speaker the tellers agree in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 432 of which the honorable paul d. Ryan of the state of wisconsin has received 236. The honorable nancy pelosi of california has received 184. The honorable Daniel Webster of the state of florida has received nine. The honorable jim cooper of the state of tennessee has received one. The honorable john lewis of georgia has received one. And the honorable colin poul has received one. Colin powell has received one. Therefore, the honorable paul d. Ryan of the state of wisconsin having received the majority of the votes cast is duly elected as speaker of the house. The chair appoints the following committee to escort the speake