Gov. Walz good afternoon, minnesota. Our press pool is here. Grateful youre all here. Id like to send a message to minnesotans, last time we were here we announced wed do a homemade cloth facemask drive to see how many we could collect and minnesotan responded, as minnesotans do, with about 130,000 of those masks delivered to fireds across and every single one of them participated, across the state. Those are getting out to our longterm care providers, some of the folks that we need to get them. Thank you for that, minnesotans. And thank you for the work youve been doing. We know were coming up on may 4. I think its time to assess where were at. See the thing that was worked, making sure the plan we have put many place to execute to make sure we have the hospital beds we when needed, make sure we ramped up test, tracing an isolation capacity and make sure we had a clear plan that we arctic pated to minnesotans, how do we get back into our businesses functioning . I want to, today, call
In the house of representatives, a lot going on today. If you want to find out more about the activity, go to our website at cspan. Org. We now take you to the house. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] rage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the. S. House of representatives. ] 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 17, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar 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 ouse of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders fo
Captures the imagination of everyone because they can all imagine that could have been my kid. They were frantic, kind of screaming, someone took jacob. Theres a man with a gun and hes got jacob. Youre worried about him getting hit by a car and he gets snatched by somebody. Who would take a child . Jacob is all alone. Its not fair. This is wrong. Youre all riding your bike and your scooter from this way and you get to this area. What happens . All of a sudden a man came out from this area over here. We saw some adultsize footprints and smaller ones like child size footprints that looked like somebody was pulling this kid along. That search was massive. In my mind the man that took jacob was always lurking around the corner, and certainly could strike again. Were you thinking theres a serial kidnapper on the loose . On this country road, an 11yearold boy riding his bike is abducted just a half mile away from his home. The kidnapping of Jacob Wetterling would become one of the biggest my
Memberfrm lits smitted b th majoritand minority aders fomoing ho 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 minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones thank you, mr. Speaker, very much. Sadly, i come to the floor to remind the members of the house as well as the American People that three americans were killed last week in afghanistan. Corporal dillon baldrich, Sergeant William braze, Sergeant Eric hoke. They were killed by the afghan they were training. Afghanistan is the biggest waste of life and money i have ever seen in my life. I have beside me two little girls who at the time lived in my district. Eden and stephanie baldiss. Their daddy kevin, was sent from camp lejeune, which is in my di
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 minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Speaker, this past saturday i was a guest at Lincoln United Methodist Church in chicago where we had an emergency meeting to discuss how we would defend daca, the deferred action for childhood arrivals initiative, started five years ago. Daca has allowed nearly 800,000 dreamers, immigrants who were brought to the u. S. As children and grew up h