Day. We ask your blessing upon those throughout our country who are suffering so much more each day. Keep safe the firefighters out west. Keep safe those who are responding to the destruction of Hurricane Sally on the gulf coast. Listen to the cries of those who have lost so much as a result of these natural covid rs even as the pandemic weeks its havoc in our communities. Here in the capitol impel with your spirit the members of congress who, more than any others, have the opportunity to address our nations needs. Give them the wisdom and ourage to do so working as a united force for good in these times. Lord, have mercy. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Men. The speaker thank you, father. Pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from michigan, ms. Slotkin. Ms. Slotkin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and
1140, which the clerk will report by title. The clerk a bill to enhance the Security Operations of the Transportation Security Administration and stability of the transportation Security Work force by applying the personal system under title 5 United States code to employees of the Transportation Security Administration who provide screening of all passengers and property, and for other purposes. The chair when the committee of the whole rose earlier today amendment number 9 printed in house report 116411, offered by the gentlewoman from florida, miss mucarselpowell, had been postponed. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in house report 116411 on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order. Amendment number 7 by mr. Cisneros of california. Amendment 9 by ms. Mucarselpowell of florida. The chair will reduce to two minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. The Unfinished
Representatives and see our candidates, dont get the opportunity to do so. Fortunate are really that we get to see our candidates up close and personal, and have the opportunity to make those decisions. They are so very critical for the nominating process. Before i get started, i would like to introduce a couple one person in particular. Ivy schuster. She is running for state senate in our district [applause] ruby ball daca who is running for our house eat is not here this afternoon. She had a previous engagement but i do want to mention her. Please welcome them and get to know them so that you can do a nextand educated vote november for our statehouse. One of the things i would not chair if i did not take the time to talk a little is toout how important it get out and do caucus on february 3. I dont care who you support. But it is important you get out on february 3 and have your voice heard. This is grassroots politics at the very beginning. And this is where you can have an impact o
Joe look at the crowd. Wow, oh o my gosh. Well, hello. Is this on . Yes, can you hear me. Awesome. What a crowd. This is incredible. It is so dang cold out there right now. Thank you, thank you, thank you for braving this beautiful iowa weather and getting out here today to say hi to our next president , joe biden. [applause] before i introduce our next president , i want to say thank you so much rosemary for all you do and everybody here in vinton who have worked their tails off the last two years and beyond making sure we flip this congressional seat and we took back that u. S. House. We could not have done it without you and im so, so combrafle every single day to get to represent this Congressional District in congress. And before again, i want to kind of touch on something and somebody ive been thinking about a lot the last few days. You see, weve been on the bus now for two days. Weve got another day to go tomorrow. We started in debuick, my hometown where i grew up in debuick co
Welcome to the 238 members and welcome to the teamsters. It is great to have you here. [applause] teamsters local 238 negotiates 270 contracts across the state of iowa, both the Public Sector and private sector. It is safe to say there is not a single aspect of the iowa handsy that teamsters do not touch. We are everywhere. As the first caucus in the nation, teamsters have also been everywhere dogging these candidates. We have been following them around for months asking them questions and educating them about our issues, as well as our brothers and sisters in north carolina, south carolina, new hampshire, nevada. We have done a great job of coordinating our messaging to candidates across the country. Some members from those states are here and we would like to welcome you and thank you for traveling across the country to be in iowa today. Today we bring you the candidates. And we bring you the candidates with the help of the storm lake times added the guardian, our sponsors today. We