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The clerk en bloc number 6 consisting of amendments 7, ered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 printed in part g of house report number 116438, offered by mr. Graves of missouri. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the amendment en bloc. Members will record their votes by electronic device. [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 epresentatives. ] the speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition . Mr. Beyer as the member designated by ms. Moore pursuant to House Resolution 965 i inform the house that ms. Moore will vote yea on the amendment en bloc number six. As the member designated mr. Lowenthal pursuant to House Resolution 965, i inform the house, mr. Lowenthal will vote neigh on the amendment en bloc numb
Thank you, madam speaker. I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Thank you, madam speaker. I yield to my friend from maryland, the majority leader. Mr. Hoyer i thank my friend from georgia for yielding. On monday the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate, i repeat that because its unusual. On monday, 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate and 10 00 a. M. For legislative business, votes expected to occur as early as 2 30 p. M. On tuesday and wednesday the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For morning hour debate and 10 00 a. M. For legislative business. On thursday, the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For legislative business. The house will consider h. R. 1425, Patient Protection and Affordable Care enhancement act. This bill will sig canly increase the a. C. A. s affordability, subsidies, lower Prescription Drug prices, expand coverage and crack down on junk plans. While strengthening protections for people with preexi
Market. So well be talking about that tonight. And what i want to do is set the stage for the bread riots, give you an idea for the conditions under which it occurred, and then ill talk about the riot itself and then ill end with the aftermath of the riot. I have a slight up here of robert keen. He wrote some insightful things. I want to share something from his diary. On march 7, this is what he said. He was an official in the War Department. And he said flour in the city is 30, but butchers are closing their stalls. Pound. 1. 25 per then he said the scheduled prices, which are often 50 below the market or neighborhood price. Price schedule he is talking about is basically the government prices that farmers had to abide by when they sold goods to the army. So, the farmers resent these prices. Corn, and meet, as meat, as soon as they were brought to towns, there was a surplus. Unless the secretary changes his policy and buys in the market for the best price. And then he concluded there
Gardening is one of my greatest delights. This weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Veteran norman about his time serving as a cameraman for the last norman hatch talked about his time later he discusses serving as part of the allied occupation force of japan and seeing the devastation caused by the atomic bomb on nagasaki. The World War Ii Museum conducted this interview in 2013 for its oral history collection. This is the second of a twopart interview. Nobody but a few men had been in combat before. My main job was to teach the photographers that were there as a division protrump section how to operate. When i reported in, i had a meor and a captain senior to. I was at that time a master sergeant. So i had applied for the warrant officer set up, but i didnt know whether i would be approved for it. People did not look on photography even in those later days so to speak of the war as being anything really important. You had to force your way into things to get what you wanted done