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Our distinguished speakers series. And we welcome our find speakers to the stage. [applause] i like to recognize and thank the trustees who have joined us this morning. Duty berkowitz, suzanne x, joel pickett and size sternberg. I want to thank each and every one of you and Michael Weisberg. How did you not appear on my list . In any event i would like to thank each and every one of you and thank you for all you do on behalf of New York Historical. I should say leading up to the weekend with history in a couple weeks i want to give special recognition to the chair of our chairmans counsel, and Michael Weisberg who is the beauty cochair along with suzanne pack, thank you. And thanks to the chairmans councilmembers who are with us tonight. This program lasts about an hour. The q a will be conducted on notecards, you should have gotten a written note card and pencil, my colleagues are going up and down the hour with notecards and pencils. Your questions on notecards will be collected late
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Go ahead. Hello . We will have to leave it there. That is it for the program today. Another edition of washington journal comes your way tomorrow morning. The house comes into consider several rules for future voting on bills. 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 rooms, washington, d. C. May 22, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable Chuck Edwards to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, 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, with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate