Votes will be taken in the following order. Adopting an amendment to h. R. 1039, passing h. R. 1039, if ordered. And agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal if ordered. The first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote refment maining votes will be conducted as fiveminute votes. The Unfinished Business is the request for a recorded vote on the Unfinished Business is the question on adopting amendment to h. R. 1039 offered by the gentlewoman from texas, ms. Jackson lee, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 1 printed in house report 115127 offered by ms. Jackson lee of texas. The speaker pro tempore the question is on agreeing to the amendment. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute 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 o
Good morning, members of the committee. I call this meeting on agriculture, nutrition, and forestry to order. We welcome sonny perdue. Members of this committee have great appreciation for the farmers, ranchers, and other stake holders directly affected by decisions made by the secretary. The department of agriculture is made up of 29 agencies and offices that employs nearly 100,000 men and women that work in all 50 states and all around the globe. Leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, Scientific Research and related issues that impact americans virtually every day. Throughout our nations history, our farmers, ranchers, and folks in Rural America have survived drought, disease, floods, tornado, and lately, yes, lately, prairie fires in kansas and whatever else Mother Nature throws at them. Year after year, they produce the safest, most abundant supply in the world but today, growers around the country are facing tough Economic Times with mult
Housing environment isnt always as easy to obtain as we first might imagine. The issue of Affordable Housing in cedar rapids is a perennial one, but this summer it came to a head with a controversy surrounding the Crestwood Ridge mixed Income Development proposed for some land along edgewood road. Here with me this morning to untangle some member of our city council. Thank you for joining us, scott. Scott my pleasure. Heather phoebe trepp who is the executive director of willis dady shelter. Phoebe thanks for having me. Heather welcome phoebe. And lynda waddington, a columnist for the gazette. Lynda good morning. Heather good morning, lynda. Thank you all so much for joining us. I thought we would begin very quickly with a little bit of an overview of how has shifted over the years. Many years ago when i was in school in chicago, i used to do a lot of volunteer work with what was at the time called the projects, cabrinigreen. That kind of concentrated, lowincome housing is a model that
The landowners prepare start and they can live next to a machine gun range or try to sell their land. I cannot imagine trying to listed in said by the way you have just a little mini afghanistan going on. Reporter they said the county planning and Zoning Commission said it would approve the zoning if they work with the neighbors. They say it is heavily inspected. The landowners say theyre supposed to have a meeting on friday to decide our talk about what they can do offer, then they might be stuck with useless land. You can read her full statement and www. 12news. Com two children and a teacher hurt when a gunman opened fire and elementary school. It happened this afternoon. They believe there was only one the students and teacher hurt are expected to recover and the other students were taken to a nearby church where their parents pick them up. A tragic story in avondale. A little boy is dead after police say that he accidentally shot himself. Detectives say the boy wandered into his m
To start off this friday. So heres a quick look at your fast forecast, colder than we were yesterday. 45 at noon, now, its still going to be on the breezy side but yesterday we had gusts approaching 40 Miles Per Hour today theyll stay in the teens to 20mile an hour range. High of only 50 this afternoon, back to 44 quickly by 6 p. M. Again though the weekend is looking nice. Ill have a breakdown. Heres i540 and aviation parkway not a lot going on. No problems on the roadways this morning. Lets check in with our live drive conditions and speaking of heading out to the airport well check in with some speeds i40 westbound at about 65 miles an hour and coming in eastbound we are looking at very similar speeds around 70 Miles Per Hour. Other check on traffic and weather in ten minutes. Authorities forced their way into a home for a man responsible for a deadly mass shooting. Investigators worried additional victims could have been inside that house. Once they got inside they discovered no on