Million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the Summer Travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary well be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park Service Experiences and we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open at 2027488000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 2027488001. What had been your experience at National Parks across the country, including a new one designated this week in the state of maine. You can also send us a tweet at spambingswj or join us on facebook. Com cspan. Good thursday. Thanks very much for being with us. If you pick up todays wall street journal or Washington Post, two editorials commemorating the National Park service including this from Terry Anderson. Happy 100th birthday National Parks and Jonathan Janis writing these lands are your lands, america. Read them online at wsj. Com. Some background on the National Park service. It was signed into law on this date by president Woodrow Wilson in 191
Into its operations. Then the anniversary of the magna carta. Later, donald trump joins joni ernst at an event in iowa as it could be to veterans. Host good morning. A live look at the Lincoln Memorial and the mall in washington, d. C. With the Washington Monument in the foreground and the u. S. Capitol on this thursday, august 25. Today marking a Centennial Anniversary. It was on this date 100 years ago president Woodrow Wilson signing a bill that created the National Park service. Today an estimated 20,000 employees, more than 200,000 volunteers, staffing americas 413 National Parks, memorials, battlefields and Historic Sites. And last year alone, nearly 310 million american visitors touring these iconic sites so as the Summer Travel season begins to wind down and on this anniversary well be devoting the next 90 minutes learning about your park Service Experiences and we want to hear from you. Our phone lines are open at 2027488000 for those in the central and eastern time zones 2027
She has expressed interest in trying to volunteer to pick up trash and basic things like that. I would like to be able to direct her on how to do that. Maybe see the National Park service, have them organize a net a mess effort to do that. Blue ridge parkway is a north carolina, that will be our last stop on this centennial anniversary. As we listen to the wayne from illinois. Caller thank you for cspan. I have enjoyed many of the experiences in the National Park said of the invention. The one i want to throw into the mix is the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in south dakota. My wife and i stopped there several years ago. It was a very interesting experience. You get to go underground into the launch site. They preserved one of the missile silos and have a training missile in it. If you grew up during the cold war, it was really Something Interesting to see. We had always heard about the socalled doomsday button and we got to see it. That is kind of a myth, there is more than
Gentleman from washington. Mr. Hastings thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Hastings i yield myself as much time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Hastings thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, s. 130 directs the secretary of the interior to convey to the powell recreation district approximately 322 acres of land located in park county, wyoming. The powell recreation district will continue to use the land for public recreational shooting complex as it has since 1980. The bill would have no cost to the taxpayers since the powell recreation district is required to pay for any administrative costs associated with the conveyance. This is a noncontroversial bill, mr. Speaker, and i urge its adoption and i reserve the balan
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 415. The nays are zero. 2 3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The Unfinished Business is on the vote of the gentleman from washington, mr. Hastings, to suspend the rules and pass s. 459 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk Union Calendar number 140, senate 459, a bill to modify the boundary of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in the state of south dakota and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. 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 closedcap