minot air force base in north dakota.een in the news the past couple of weeks, because first, we got word from the local sheriff near there that the unit responsible for the security of nuclear missiles at minot had lost something important off the back of a truck. "air force officials said a security forces team from the 91st missile wing at minot were traveling between missile sites on rough roads when the back hatch of their humvee opened and the ammunition container with the grenade rounds in it fell out." live grenades. big crate of them. they narrowed it down to a six-mile stretch or so where they might have lost their grenades. not sure exactly. looked for them for a while, couldn't find them. finally a few days later, they told the local sheriff, with a warning that, oh, god, those things are dangerous, don't touch them. offered a $5,000 reward to plead with the public, please return our box of live grenades. still haven't found them. days later, same air force base, same unit responsible for the safety and securi

according to a statement from minot air force base, airmen from the 91st missile wing security forces team were traveling on gravel roads may 1 in north dakota when the back hatch of their vehicle opened and a container filled with explosive ammunition fell out. the air force sent more than 100 airmen to walk the entire six-mile route where the grenades were probably lost. but two weeks after it was lost the box of explosives still has not been found. the missing ordinance is a belt of linked grenades for the mk-19 automatic grenade launcher. according to the sheriff, quote, this ammunition will not operate in any other launching device without catastrophic failure. so if you're watching tonight from north dakota and you have recently found a 42-pound green metal crate on a dirt road somewhere near minot, do not open it. the air force apparently didn't tell the local sheriff until three days after this thing went missing but now they are setting up an anonymous tip line and offering the $5,000 reward and making this public service announcement because, quote, any damage to the contain

ost: north dakota is home to one of the best slogans in the the city of hat is minot. minot.t governor doug burgum, first term republican governor, joins us on bus in bismarck. thank you, governor. we want to thank our cable midco, for bismarck, helping us set this visit up. "50 stipulate on the capitals tour" is in st. paul. house of representatives is the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. may 16, 2018. i hereby appoint the honorable clay higgins to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 8, 2018, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. each member other than the

or white fish, montana or minot, north dakota, anywhere, hard places, easy places, but we obviously want to try to get some more people on bond, and i just -- i've got to tell you. when i look at this, it appears to me just a total boondoggle, i'm just going to tell you >> you know i share your view on holding accountable. >> yes. >> so why don't we come talk to you this week and let's see how to make it better. >> we'd love to, and then i've got a number of questions. just want to touch on one real quick and that's tsa. tsa sees a cut, getting rid of some viper units and getting rid of a number of other things. it's pretty important. that's all i'm going to tell you. i mean, those guys do a hell of a job, and we need to make sure that is beefed up just as much as we do on our ports and borders which i think we all agree to. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> senator shaheen. >> thank you, madam chair. i want to pick up on senatthe senator's questions about cyber security because i was pleased to hear that all federal agencies were able to comply with dhs directive to remove test

ost: north dakota is home to one of the best slogans in the the city of hat is minot.inot.t governor doug burgum, first term republican governor, joins us on bus in bismarck. thank you, governor. we want to thank our cable midco, for bismarck, helping us set this visit up. next stipulate