1-Minute Speeches End

1:21 PM -- each side has had 5 1-minute speeches (yes, it takes the House 18 minutes to do 10 minutes worth of speeches.) The GOP had sought to increase the number of allowed 1-minute speeches to 10 on each side, but the Democrats would not allow it. Clearly the GOP wants to g as slowly as possible and the DEMs as fast as possible.

Now, on to a few non-controversial, unrelated bills before the debate resumes.