before the house a communication from the speaker the speaker's room's washington d c september twenty fifth two thousand and seven i hereby appoint the honorable peter welch to act as speaker pro tempore on this day sign nancy pelosi speaker of the house of representatives pursuant to the order of the house of january for two thousand and seven the chair will now recognized members from lists of mid by the majority minority leaders for morning hour debate to chair walter nate recognition between the parties with each party limited to twenty five minutes in each member other than the majority and minority leaders in the minority whip limited to five minutes each but in no event shall debate continue beyond nine fifty a m chair recognizes the gentleman from oklahoma mr boren for five minutes mr speaker mr speaker i rise today to remember the life of a fellow oklahoman steve moore who unexpectedly passed away on saturday september twenty second two thousand and seven steve was a great person and a great oklahoman many in the oklahoma community and around the nation knew steve as the c e o of jeannie but he was much much more much much more in fact steve's leadership paved the way for o g s me to be recognized by forbes magazine on its list of the nation's best managed companies additionally a product as approximately seven hundred fifty thousand zero g n a t customers know the company received numerous awards for customer satisfaction and emergency response under steve's guidance however during his sixty one years steve managed not only to be the leader of oklahoma's largest utility provider but also a civic leader throughout the state if you may know that steve is the past chairman of the oklahoma city chamber of commerce and he served on the boards of the oklahoma city public schools foundation allied arts the state fair the united way the edison electric institute and the foundations of both the university of oklahoma and oklahoma city university i thing his list of civic activities along with the state and national recognition given to zero g n a s shows that steve more truly cared for his employees for his customers and above all else his fellow oklahomans it was this homegrown okie compassion that will make the sarah born and altus race son of oklahoma miss bias all with these thoughts mr speaker oklahomans around the state send their condolences to steve's wife nancy his daughter lisa his son scott and his mother melva steve will be missed but not forgotten i yield back the balance of my time the chair recognizes the seventy fifth anniversary a book written gardens which is located in my district in merrill's in the south carolina arrives today to thank my colleagues with some forty recurring gardens which is one of the most beautiful places in coastal south carolina in and thirty one archie and anna hyatt huntington found a good brokering gardens to preserve in the native flora and fauna of course of south carolina and to display objects of art within that natural setting today brokering gardens is a national historic landmark and contains more than five hundred fifty works from american artists and what was the country's first public sculpture garden brokering gardens also offers a natural exhibits  pursuant to class twelve a of rule one the chair declares the house in recess until ten a m today