Gavel in for the morning session, we will of course bring gavel to live for gavel coverage. Thanks for watching. Day. The rest of your 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. , july 27, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable matt gaetz to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, 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 illinois, mr
Strong on border security. As you know we are talking about building a wall. We are going to build a wall. Donald trump tonight on cnn addressing what has become the most bizarre. This morning reporters asked pope francis about trumps immigration position. A person that thinks the pope responded kicking off a political fire storm. Trump called the remarks disgraceful and issuing this cryptic warning. If in fact the vatican is attacked by isis, i can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that donald trump would have been president. With only 2 days make their pitches, trumps rivals were dragged way off message today forced to dodge another trump controversy. The news cycle effectively hijacked. I like the pope. End of story. We have a right to control who comes in, and how they come in. Vatican controls who comes in, how they come in and when. About the papal issue, trump seemed to have backed off a bit. Perhaps realizing that a pro tracted battle with the bishop o