The speaker pro tempore the yeas are 227 and the nays are 189. The previous question is ordered. The question is on adoption of the resolution. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. Mr. Burgess i won that on a voice vote. I request the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, yeas and nays are ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 222, and the nays are 190. Adopted. Ution is the motion ion, heard. On is pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Bu
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Thanks everyone for coming out today, and this is my 33rd town hall of this year. So been active and busy and out and about amongst our communities and our constituencies. So thank you very much for taking the time to be here with us today. We do have a lot of national media. Thank you, folks are coming out. It must be quite on the president ial trail here in iowa today. But you are absolutely welcomed so thank you for being here as well. The way our town halls work for those that havent been to one, we do have a number of cards that been filled up out by fols that would like to ask questions. If youd like to fill out a card and you did when you came in, if you would racial hand the staff of come by and will provide you with a card. You can solve it out and get your name thrown in there to be drawn as well. With that what we will do, go ahead and get started. I will have an Opening Statement anything. We want to get to as many questions as possible. I can come if you have cards, send t
That are necessary to respond to the explosions. I am troubled by the prospect of thousands or maybe tens of thousands of these facilities operated under the radar screen in there used to be a sense of urgency on this issue at all levels. It is essential between osha and dhs and the coast guard and state regulators and there has to be enough Information Available to identify those facilities that could pose a risk. That information needs to be shared. The next challenge is to ensure that dhs analyzes the facilities that provide information and gao has told us that when it comes to assessing and assigning risk, arguably the most essential aspect of the program is neither reliable or consistent. To that point the blue rhino facility exploded scented fireballs into the night sky and it was not determined by dhs to be high risk. But i believe with a lot of work and smart people in this program, we can do better. That is why we have called on the president to bring together experts to tackl
Speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. Five years ago if someone asked what a bow tiewearing progressive democrat from oregon and my colleague, ted poe, a cowboy bootwearing conservative republican from texas could agree on, you would have said, not much. Today we are partners in an issue, however, that makes sense regardless of your politics. Ensuring sustainable equitable access of clean water for nearly 800 million wom