Congressional Record - House Proceedings and Debates, 111th Congress, Second Session - July 22, 2010

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United States House proceedings and debates recorded in the Congressional Record for the 111th Congress, second session, dated July 22, 2010. The transcript covers formal opening actions, including appointment of the Speaker pro tempore, prayer, approval of the Journal, and the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by communications from the Senate regarding S. 1376. It also includes speaker announcements and one-minute remarks on policies such as buying local food for schools and industry plans to protect the Gulf of Mexico.

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House

Prayer

The Journal

Pledge of Allegiance

Message from the Senate

Announcements by the Speaker pro tempore

Buying Local Food for Schools

Oil Companies Plan to Protect Gulf

Congressional Record United States of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 111 th CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION | Vol. 156 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010 No. 109 | | | | --- | --- | --- | | House
The House met at 10 a.m . and was called to order by the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. PASTOR of Arizona) .
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DESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE
The SPEAKER pro tempore laid before the House the following communication from the Speaker:
WASHINGTON , DC, July 22, 2010.
I hereby appoint the Honorable ED PASTOR to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day.
NANCY PELOSI ,
Speaker of the House of Representatives. f
PRAYER
The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following prayer:
Lord God, You are the Most High, the Almighty, yet Your love reaches out tous and surrounds each detail of human life.
The Members of Congress seek answers to the deepest questions facing the Nation. Attentive to their districts and the human cries of families they know and individuals lost in the void of unemployment, they hear tangible truth breathing beneath the blanket of pundits and pollsters.
Help them, Lord, to discover ways that will lead Your people from crisis to opportunity. With creative consultation and intellectual depth, Lord, we ask You fix a vision for the future. Let them build upon the known strengths of America.
By appealing to the Nation’s innate sense of justice and generous patriotism, may they always seek Your presence and Your activity working within Your people and the country’s democratic process both now and forever.
Amen.
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THE JOURNAL
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair has examined the Journal of the | of Representatives | | | | last day’s proceedings and announces to the House his approval thereof.
Pursuant to clause 1, rule I, the Journal stands approved.
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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Will the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. FLAKE) come forward and lead the House in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Mr. FLAKE led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows:
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE A message from the Senate by Ms.
Curtis, one of its clerks, announced that the Senate has passed a bill of the following title in which the concurrence of the House is requested:
S. 1376. An act to restore immunization and sibling age exemptions for children adopted by United States citizens under the Hague Convention on Inter-country Adoption to allow their admission into the United States.
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ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will remind the House that on July 24, 1998, at 3:40 p.m . , Officer Jacob J. Chestnut and Detective John M. Gibson of the United States Capitol Police were killed in the line of duty defending the Capitol against an intruder armed with a gun.
At an appropriate point today, the Chair will recognize the anniversary of this tragedy by observing a moment of silence in their memory.
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ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will entertain up to 10 requests | for 1-minute speeches on each side of the aisle.
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BUYING LOCAL FOOD FOR SCHOOLS
(Ms. PINGREE of Maine asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks. )
Ms. PINGREE of Maine. Mr. Speaker, today I introduced a bill that will make it easier for schools to buy local food. In America, we have slowly moved further and further away from feeding our children healthy, nutritious food in school. At the same time we have watched while thousands of family-run farms have literally disappeared.
In Maine, many of our schools go out of their way to purchase food from local farms. But dwindling school budgets and competing priorities have resulted in le

FAQs

What formal items opened the House session on July 22, 2010?

The record includes designation of the Speaker pro tempore, prayer, approval of the Journal, and leading the Pledge of Allegiance.

What bill did the Senate communicate to the House on this date?

The Senate passed S. 1376 and requested House concurrence; the bill concerns restoring immunization and sibling age exemptions for children adopted under the Hague Convention to allow admission to the United States.

What policy proposal was discussed in the one-minute remarks about schools?

A bill was introduced to help schools buy local food by allowing spending 10 percent of government commodities funds on food from local farmers.

What did the remarks say about efforts to protect the Gulf of Mexico?

Industry leaders announced a coordinated plan to build an emergency oil spill containment system, including a deepwater rapid response engineered for underwater depths and an initial daily containment capacity.

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