U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kept her pledge to Walter Jones.
Pelosi just called the U.S. House to order and observed a moment of silence in honor and memory of those killed or injured in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, reports Barb Barrett.
Jones, a Farmville Republican, asked Pelosi several weeks ago to begin each month’s legislative business with a moment of silence to the fallen. Just before the Memorial Day recess, Pelosi told him she would.
At 4:25 p.m., Pelosi gaveled the House to order and asked them to stand. The entire House was silent for a minute.
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