CSPAN U.S. House Of Representatives August 17, 1004
Parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Lumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, madam speaker. What if the headline in the morning paper was slightly different . What if we had a disease that had killed 59 people yesterday and sickened over 500 others . You think the nation would demand action . If we had an outbreak every day that had over 10...