House Journal: Page 237: Tuesday, February 5, 2002
percent of the total sentence of confinement, and making eligible for
parole persons serving such a sentence.
Read first time and referred to committee on judiciary.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Leave of absence was granted as follows:
O’Brien of Boone, for the remainder of the week, on request of Huser of Polk; Shey
of Linn on request of Kreiman of Davis.
SPECIAL PRESENATATION
Speaker Siegrist introduced to the House Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution",
whose advances in agricultural science have saved a billion lives.
Accompanying Dr. Borlaug were: Mr. John Ruan, Chairman of the
World Food Prize and most recent recipient of the Iowa Medal, Mr.
John Ruan III; Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President of the World
Food Prize; Members of the World Food Prize Council of Advisors and
eight Iowa high school students who served as World Food Prize
international interns at Agricultural Resource Centers in Asia, Africa
and Latin America.
The House rose and expressed its welcome.
CONSIDERATION OF BILLS
Regular Calendar
House File 2144, a bill for an act relating to the designation of a
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug World Food Prize Day, was taken up for
consideration.
SENATE FILE 2057 SUBSTITUTED FOR HOUSE FILE 2144
Klemme of Plymouth asked and received unanimous consent to
substitute Senate File 2057 for House File 2144.
Senate File 2057, a bill for an act relating to the designation of a
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug World Food Prize Day, was taken up for
consideration.
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