outward looking with opportunities around the world. >> the prime minister to the host in the next week. i apologize, but calling me to join her. the reason the people of yorkshire voted to leave the european union was largely due to the controlling integration. can the prime minister assure the people of yorkshire that when we leave the european union she will insist on keeping the original promise to get immigration figures down to the tens of thousands. >> i say to my honorable friend i am very clear that the vote taken in this country on 23 june

sent a clear message of immigration that people want to control free movement for the european union and that is what we will be doing in the negotiations that we will be undertaking and remain absolutely firm in my belief that we have to bring migration down to the same level, the government believes -- the government believes that is tens of thousands. it will take time to get there but now we have the aspect of what we can bring in relation to people moving from the european union. >> mister tim fallon. >> thank you. you are very kind. can i genuinely warmly welcome the prime minister and reflect she has come a long way she

will reflect that she is enjoying greater support in this chamber than either of us got in the working men's club and there are reports a new brexit unit will hire lawyers up to 5000 pounds ahead, can i ask the prime minister will she be using the 350 million pounds to pay legal fees or is that penciled into the nhs as promised by her colleague who brings aids relief? >> it is absolutely right, a new department to focus on negotiating the united kingdom leaving the european union and we need the expertise necessary for those negotiations. i am happy to remember the days we spent campaigning in the general election little did the voters know the two candidates, unsuccessful candidates in that election would become leaders of

the country's political parties although if i was to point out, mine is bigger than his. >> order! [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we will leave the british house of commons as members move on to other business. you have been watching prime minister's question time aired live on wednesdays at 7:00 eastern when parliament is in session. you can see the session sunday

nights at 9:00 eastern and pacific. for more information go to c-span.org and click on series to view every program we are from the house of commons since october 1989 and we invite your comments on twitter, hashtag p.m. q. >> house speaker paul ryan and other republican leaders spoke to the texas delegation on party unity, national security and domestic issues during a breakfast at 2016 republican national convention in cleveland. this is a little over an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations]

>> good morning. they told me that would get everybody quiet. i won't lead you in prayer yet. let me say good morning to everybody, welcome, thank you for attending, it is a joy to have everybody together. a couple quick housekeeping comments i want to make, we are on a tight schedule and seem to be starting late every day, trying to get everyone in the room. these are not formal delegation meetings. these are optional meetings, you get to hear the speakers. someone asked me yesterday about passing a resolution. there aren't any resolutions. the only way to do that would be to have majority of delegates, a request for a formal meeting as

i have been directed by this government, if you want to do that, that is fine. people come later, i didn't know this was a meeting, should have been there and get all kinds of stuff. let me quickly touch on what happened yesterday. there is a lot of frustration and confusion. i spoke -- can you all hear me? i spoke with the secretary of the convention, sidney hansen, secretary of the are in c. she is a fine christian woman. i never heard her misrepresent the truth. i asked her yesterday privately, tell me what happened, she said there were 9 states that signed a petition for rollcall votes. before the vote occurred three states had withdrawn those petitions and the reason, what was the reason for that?

because we were told the delegations were misinformed as the purpose of the petition and they withdrew them and when they went to do the votes there were six, you need to have 7 states to order a rollcall vote, there were 6. before the voting was completed another state on the list pulled their name, there were 5, texas was not one of the states a number of names, and the reason it was handled the way it was they began to do the votes and could not here, there was so much noise they couldn't hear the other delegates making a motion in the microphone, back to the end and settled down, just announced a number of states before they began to vote first take the vote and

one of the states is authorized according to those petitions can go to the microphone to be recognized for utah, that is when the information about the number of states was released. can i share my heart with you for a second? [applause] >> it is very challenging to be a national chairman. i hear so much criticism. we have a phenomenal national chairman, rines priebus is extraordinary. [applause] >> under his leadership he has been very generous to the republican party. he has been very generous, they have done all kinds of things for us, a very strong leader. to hear people complain and criticize him without cause is

surprising to me. no one ever criticizes me. i don't understand. >> you are perfect. >> somebody said to me i'm really upset at you. i said you better get in line because i have lots of people upset at me. when that comes up today, let me close out that thought please extend grace and understanding accused and judged and criticized, very unflattering ways, for those of us of christian faith these are people of christian faith, rines priebus is of the christian faith, susie has the christian faith, doing the best job they can, just doing their job and do it as well as they can as we are, as your leadership of your party and staff. our sponsor was gracious towards

the last minute. and people were complaining, i had to walk to the bus. i have muscles i didn't even know i had. i have an apple watch the tracks my steps so i can brag to my wife how much i exercise that day, and 61/2 miles or so. here is the deal. people don't want to walk to the bus. the problem was when i talked to a guy running the bus he said we are prohibited by the secret service from getting any closer so we have something we have to follow. drop us off a little closer, we got a bus ride back and they dropped us closer. it was kind of them to do that. it within the purview of what they could do. an issue with respect to communications yesterday, we

have people's cell numbers, things are changing, we will do the best we can to communicate with anybody, and other people you know, please make sure you bring it into it, are you aware we are doing whatever, and do the best we can. we have 155 delegates, 307 members of our delegation, we order breakfast for 400 people, costing $4000. people bring lots of friends that is what happened on the brexit thing yesterday. people were complaining, talking to me about it. that is okay. i don't have a problem. there is an issue or problem, we never can fix it. i'm not bothered by that at all. if you would join me in congratulating lieutenant governor dan patrick, today is

his 45th wedding anniversary to his wife, jan, 41. [applause] >> of all the places they could be on their wedding anniversary, she is not. please pray for him that his wife is under 60. >> she is the most patient woman you have ever met. >> she is very kind to allow her husband to be here with us. we appreciate it. without further ado i would ask doctor robin armstrong to lead the invocation. and the us pledge. rhonda lacey for district 31 will sing the star-spangled

banner and kathy hagler will follow with the texas plate. go ahead. >> hats off. we thank you for this day, that you have blessed us this day, called us this day for a higher purpose. we pray that you would be with us during our deliberations, guide us, have us walk in the spirit of unity, we were gathered together in the midst of us, thank you, and the speakers today, guide us as we deliberate on the floor and watch the speeches tonight and let us walk in unity and peace and do the work before us and do it, we ask these things in jesus's name, amen.

>> good morning, texas delegation. >> good morning. >> we are united behind the united states flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> please join me in an incredible and them. ♪ oh say can you see ♪ by the dawn's early light ♪ what so proudly we hailed ♪ at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ through the perilous fight

♪ over the ramparts we watched ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ and the rockets red glare ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ that our flag was still there ♪ oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ over the land of the sea -- free ♪ and the home of the brave ♪ [applause]

>> are pledge to the texas flag. honor the texas flag, i pledge allegiance to texas, one state under god, one and indivisible. thank you. >> okay. a quick item of business this morning, the organization committee met yesterday, appropriate for them to give their report. can you hear me now? that was a joke. it is an aggie joke. next up, what i was explaining in the microphone, the organization, the committee met yesterday so this morning they

give their report. i would like to introduce chris daniel and leslie palmer. [applause] >> we had a rather lengthy organization committee meeting, it was terribly terribly long, it lasted 20 minutes, it took almost longer to do the rollcall than it did to do the order of business. there was only one major item that had to be corrected. did you know that apparently we had two national committee women? apparently we nominated national committeewoman robin armstrong to be our tally person. i don't know what kind of message alabama was trying to send by doing that but we got it corrected in a heartbeat. without any of further ado, how we promoted unity among the

entire organization. >> we know the committee the affirmation recommends that, and we provided each delegate a little card that makes america great again and the new one, ronald reagan's slogan that trump took. provided a little card, and each delegate with a texas pin. the texas delegation, governor patrick provided that and so thankful for your support in letting us be on the committee and people more texan and we were the only ones. [applause]

>> next up, former executive director. [applause] >> thank you for the email. [applause] >> thank you. everybody having a good time? we have roger here? i know that yesterday was a little chaotic trying to figure out the buses and a few general sessions that were exhausting, they wanted always the worst but hopefully you all have -- familiar with the quicken loans arena after being there twice today and understand the buses. and today will be a little different.

if there are changes to the schedule like there were yesterday we will send you texts so pay attention. we will ask the delegates to spread the word and share the information that is coming around so if you are with someone who doesn't do texting if you could share that information with them. the photo yesterday my understanding is 100 people they think they were short by 100 people, they didn't get to the field in time for the photo. if you were on my bus, it got lost. on a 1-way street which was interesting. working on a backup plan, tentatively thinking thursday morning after breakfast, we will do it. my question for you guys is do

we want to wear the texas shirts again for the delegation photo? [applause] >> you are going to have to change, two outfit on thursday, the texas flag shirt to breakfast, we will do the photo after breakfast and you have to change what you want to wear twice in the morning, change for whatever you are going to where the rest of the day. i am working on that. at the marriott for sure. there is no staircase here so 300 people in a photo without a staircase will be -- i have some ideas. i need to talk to hotel staff and make sure they can accommodate us so i will have those details tomorrow. and we will text it out.

as of yesterday, late yesterday, we confirmed we have some special guests joining us at the end of today's program. tim deegan from the 13 hours story is going to be here. [applause] >> they may already be here. if you are here, is that great? he is very gracious, and an honorarium for speaking and he offered to come -- i understand he also is going to bring an auction item or two for travel expenses so being interested in that, the value of whatever you are bidding on, potentially more

than the item itself, covering expenses of his being here and his nonprofit organization. i think that is all i have. you have any questions for me? >> we are not here again this morning. >> we will let you in even -- we had a few people ask me about getting onto the floor, the rnc does not have a sergeant-at-arms program like we have at the state party. there is no david how% of the rnc. the only way to get to the floor if you are an alternate is to physically meet your delegate. i cannot do anything for you. i am not even on the floor.

so if you see that your delegate is not on the floor, the only way to get his or her place on the floor is to physically find him. if your delegate, trying to find the alternate, seated in section 17 on the third floor of the quicken loans arena. hopefully we have contact information, if you don't, go to the security room after breakfast and we can look it up for you. that is the only way you can switch places is physically find each other. if you have nothing else for me that is all i have for you. i will turn the program over to the chairman. [applause] >> the state of texas besides

being the strongest, most powerful state party and the nation. [applause] 36 congressional members, 25 are republicans unmatched but what else is unmatched you may not be aware of, perhaps in the history of our nation is members of congress, 7 members are chairman of committees. that has never been done before. [applause] >> i am very grateful members of congress at the convention have been part of this delegation and it speaks volumes to their confidence in us as a party and their confidence in all of you. i would like to introduce the chairman of the homeland security committee, these difficult times in our world and our nation, the most important

committees in congress, he is a guy that keeps it separate. please welcome congressman devol. [applause] >> thank you. what a night we had last night. i was so proud to be a texan last night. fourth generation texan. when i spoke last night and looked over and saw all those texas shirts you should wear them again because i loved it. a great evening. it was time to come together as a party to defeat hillary clinton in this election. [applause]

>> as tom mentioned, he has done an outstanding job as chairman, we have -- tom. [applause] >> more republicans of any state delegation and held more chairmanships of any state as well. lamar is chairman as well, the most in the history of congress we are part of the leadership, as it should be. last night, first of all it was an honor to speak, the prime role asked -- we heard from

victims of illegal immigration. and to facilitate that. and sanctuary cities. [applause] >> keep dangerous people out of this country, working with the fbi, homeland security committee, bad guys and bad things outside the united states under a new administration and finally, once and for all, we know the nominee will do this, we need to secure the border. and get it done. [applause] >> the men at benghazi, to see the mother, her son was killed

in benghazi and the disrespect hillary clinton showed to her, to not even acknowledge her as immediate family, shows you the type of person she really is. i have been tasked to be on the national security team moving forward and i will be talking about hillary clinton quite a bit, my role to be one of the attack dogs and the prosecutor i used to be against her. [applause] >> leaving behind, exactly what he has done. she was the architect of the failed foreign policy of the obama administration. and was responsible for benghazi and the death of the ambassador and three americans.

she was responsible for isis. it is a strong statement to make but let me make the case for it. she was only in baghdad one day for three hours. you may not know this. as a top diplomat not to meet with the prime minister of the country that is not very stable and we love stabilized and to withdraw forces, status of forces agreement, what happened was it imploded and al qaeda and iraq turned into isis and reared its ugly head. i believe there is an indictment to be made. we make a political indictment against her going into this election. [applause] >> i talked about last night, and reagan was the first president i had the opportunity

to vote for, and he made the case and this is what won the election. are you better off than you were four years ago? the question of today is are you safer than you were eight years ago? [applause] >> resoundingly everywhere i go when i talk about is the answer is obviously no. almost on a weekly basis we are seeing a terrorist attack overseas. and more and more in the homeland in the united states, the litany of cities where we see this lately, we are seeing our police officers under attack by what i argue are terrorists. [applause] >> they say black lives matter, the governor and dan patrick said every life matters.

i will give you this one. cops lives matter as well. [applause] >> i had an african-american guy in the street say that to me, thank you because cops lives matter and they do, cops lives protecting us. we need a new commander-in-chief that will lead our military to greatness, restore the greatness of america. as i said last night, islamicist terrorists, the first shot, rest assured the last. [applause] >> it is my great honor, one last point, this administration won't call it what it is, the basic military principle is you

have to define your enemy to defeat them and i have been saying this for years, we can't put our head in the sand and call whatever, the enemy is radical islam and we need to understand that and defeated and we need to say that. [applause] >> my honor to introduce speaker of the house paul ryan who is here today. i consider him to be a good friend and colleague. paul came in, vice president of canada, chairman of the budget committee, chairman of the powerful ways and means committee which determines the tax policies, and the important policy committee. a funny thing happened on the way to the speaker's office, john weiner left, and our

conference drafted him. you use to see george washington and others drafted to run for president, you don't see that very often these days in washington. people like power too much. paul didn't ask for the challenge. he was drafted by the conference to serve in that position, very proud of the work he has done to bring together all the factions in the republican party which we all know exist but he sits down and listens, he is a consensus builder, to get good things done, he has been in texas four times and the short time he has been speaker of the house and one thing you may not know about him is our delegation went to him and we said speaker, we had

a ban on crude oil since the carter administration and if we are going to lift the ban from iran and the iran deal why in the world the crude oil energy ban that hurts texas. [applause] >> paul listened and paul ryan, the speaker got that done. we passed that bill, signed it into law, one of the greatest things for the texas economy we have seen in a long time. [applause] >> let me turn it over to the speaker of the house, paul ryan. [applause] >> one more thing. he is from wisconsin, don't hold

that against him. he has put a better way forward, the agenda he is going to talk about and i am proud to be part of that team, paul put me on the national security team. >> thanks, appreciate it. >> good morning. this looks just like the wisconsin breakfast. only the crowd would be a sixth of the size and all the cowboy hats would be cheeseheads and you are wearing green and gold but other than that it is like wisconsin. good morning. are you excited to be here? the convention can be exciting sometimes. here is what i want to say. we have got really big problems in this country.

and in our party we have had let's say a really big family discussion. all right. you go to texas and people do this and they do this, you have horned frogs, aggie, longhorns. i guess -- aggie, longhorns, wisconsin badgers. see my point? you have all these things you are into, and those rivalries are tough especially when the big 12 was the big 12, you guys were at each other's throats, it is rough. i hate to tell you this and i will get booed on the stage. i am a big hunter with two bird dogs and their names are boomer and sooner. all right.

we go to the so-called neutral territory in dallas. one side is the nice burnt orange, at each other's throats when one expands to a big ball game or national championship, don't you root for the aggies of your longhorn? you don't? it was not worth it. my entire premise has been obliterated. i come from big 10 country, and when it doesn't go that way or go to the national championship we root for them because it is in conference.

start thinking that way. this explains everything. all right. the point i was trying to make, my wife went to high school in texas, we were picking up our daughter a few weeks ago and the one thing i really appreciate, getting into texas culture, texas friends, great hunting, by the way, you have an appreciation for freedom, you really do. i don't know you'd take it for granted, how good you are at it and how much it is in your culture, liberty and freedom in

texas. and not every place in america is like that. have you been to san francisco? we are in the struggle in the country, and we as conservatives, as republicans hold dear to these principles and sometimes we root for a different team within the conference and sometimes an idea of the tactics to advance those principles, at the end of the day we are advancing our principles, and whether it is running the wishbone or the west coast offense, we may not agree with that, at the end of the day we will want to win the game. [applause]

>> at the beginning of this year in congress, took this job without much notice, wasn't the plan to begin with. i feel like the dog but caught the car chasing in the first place. we decided this country is going in the wrong direction. we were elected by our constituents to fix that and we will not fix it if we are divided among ourselves. we will only fix this country's problems if we unify. [applause] >> and the best, the moral way to unify is around sound principles. [applause] >> and the vision of these principles is what we loosely

describe as the american idea, something you know well and appreciate in texas, a condition of your birth does not determine the outcome of your life. we are a free society, self-determination self-government, government by consensus, free enterprise, you know it. at the beginning of the year we said okay, we all agree on these principles let's come together and work on an agenda that advances these principles. if mitt romney were sitting next to me he along with me would tell you i wish we made 2012 more a battle of ideas, more of a crisper contrast on the direction of the country. [applause] >> that is what we set out to do. so in january we decided 17 people running for president, just getting started, just getting going, we decided to get an agenda and put it together,

roll it out at the beginning of the summer and take her to the country, take it to the country and say here is your choice, here is the better way, the kind of election we have to have if we are going to have the kind of election that gives us the ability to deal with problems is a mandate election, and affirming election not a win by default or outlast and beat up the other side but and election where we say to the country if you don't like the direction america is going which 7 out of 10 americans don't, then we have a better way. to put it together. to that point, we set up a whole game plan at the beginning of the year. we chose our offense and you guys like mike mccaul in charge of our border security plan, this guy knows what that looks like. you have so many chairman in texas and a huge upgrade over

the ways and means committee if we put kevin brady in charge of the ways and means committee over there. [applause] >> john carter, judge carter knows what he is doing, one of our yodas in our conference, lamar smith was chairman of the judiciary committee, chairman of the signed committee, one of these guys going after the regulations of the obama administration, one of those guys in san antonio that is one of the leaders in our congress and delegation. we have this new young guy, former us attorney, just passed a major bill off the floor called the chevron case. this is basically stop giving unelected judges always room to rewrite our laws basically what we are doing. [applause] >> and obviously john cornyn, one of the best partners we could ask for in the senate.

[applause] >> here is what we set out to do. we decided what were the big issues we decided we needed fixed fast? let's do a bottom up, and talk to constituents, consult with the people we like, know and trust in these areas and take it to the country. we have to look at the fact there are tens of millions of people in this country, able-bodied, if you look at all the welfare laws and programs we have in america today they are designed to replace work, not to encourage work. [applause] >> that is not working. we want to move people from welfare to work, we don't want to pay people not to work but encourage people to work. we reformed welfare in 1996, one program worked great work requirements, time limits, lowered child poverty, got single moms into the workforce,

a great idea, one program. there are dozens and dozens of others from the federal government that have not been reformed. we have shown what a better way of fighting poverty looks like going get root causes of poverty instead of treating symptoms of poverty and perpetuating poverty, we have got to take on the status quo and as conservatives we can have the moral high ground and we can show what true upward mobility looks like. give me bottom-up upward mobility any day over the bernie sanders hillary clinton class warfare socialist redistribution politics any day of the weekend we will take that. [applause] >> then we decide what we got right now is not national security. there is not a national security strategy being employed in america today. what we have is an administration phoning it in and adding the pile for the next administration. people like mike mccaul and bob

goodlatte and members of congress who know what they are doing, the chairman of the armed services committee. [applause] >> and report a competent of national security strategy. 67 recommendations, go to better.gop, how do you secure the border, bill the military, went to the doctor because offense against isis actually look like, how do we secure our country. number 3, regulatory states, we have a regulatory leviathan out of the federal government micromanaging our businesses, micromanaging our lives, killing our economy, a complete wholesale redo of our regulations like dodd-frank and everything else plaguing our economy which brings me to number 4. the bigger problem is we are losing self-governance, self-determination, the founding principle of the country and when we have a country founded on national rights, natural rights and equality of

opportunity, not equality of outcomes we got to take on the elephant in the room, nope unintended. the fourth branch of government unelected bureaucrats running our lives. never even vote on these things. we have to take back article i of the constitution. we have to take back we write our laws through elected representatives. [applause] >> all the rules and regulations will come back to congress for a final vote before they go into effect. that is how you restore government by consensus. how many of you are against obamacare? how many of you know we agree? for the first time in 6 years we have consensus on what we would replace it with, what a patient centered freedom producing healthcare system looks like and number 6, we have to scrap the tax code. the irs is too intrusive.

and we show you what postcard size tax reform looks like, what progress tax reform looks like, the point is we are laying it on the line putting it out there, putting out a specific agenda, taking our principles, offering a better way. everybody in the republican congress worked on producing this because we want to take this to the country litigate this, defend it so if and when we win we can do it. guess what? guess what? hillary clinton isn't going to do one of these things. she is against all of these things. she is against these principles we believe in. this is a binary choice. it is either donald trump or hillary clinton. if you are not for donald trump,

if you are not showing up, you are helping hillary clinton. it is that clear. [applause] >> i want to close with this. i mentioned how texans understand freedom, but i don't think you fully realized it until a couple years ago. where my wife is from, the north side, for decades and decades you have been able to go hillbilly and fishing and catching a catfish by yourself with your own bare hands. it is an exhilarating sport, i encourage you. but it wasn't legalized until texas two years ago. now you can doodle catfish on both sides so congratulations for fully realizing your freedoms, texas, thank you very

much. remember we have to unify, remember this is about winning and taking our country in the right direction, thank you very much, go get them, appreciate it. [applause] >> i think we would all say we have a pretty phenomenal speaker of the house. would you agree? moving right along, speaker ryan, thank you so much for being part of our breakfast. so our next speaker is one of our sponsors the director of policy communication for expedia. i didn't know this until this

morning but expedia has a good-sized footprint of the size of the company in texas, 1500, five offices around the state of texas, 1500 employees who are fortunate to have another company that is involved in keeping texans employed but they have also been gracious to be one of our sponsors. at this time i ask you to welcome philip who will make an introduction. [applause] >> good morning. whose idea of a sick joke was it to follow the speaker of the house of representatives? must've lost a bet somewhere. the speaker deserves one more round of applause for the hard work he is doing. [applause] >> good morning.

welcome today 2. how is everybody feeling? good? it is going to be a long day so stay with me. i have the privilege of heading policy communications for expedia. hopefully many of you know the brands that make up our company, orbits, expedia, travelohcity hotwire, and many more. hopefully you used them to search and compare and book travel your cells with your families. to help get a better understanding of the audience here this morning raise your hand if you use one of these companies to book travel here or if your family vacation in the summer. i like that. i want to hear about your trips. i know we are all looking forward to hearing from senator cornyn and i don't want to take up too much time to get to that. since today's theme is jobs and

the economy i figured we would share a quick story about two other steps and at the end of the next few minutes i hope to leave you with two take aways, supplying you with another incredible story, texas innovation and entrepreneurship and i'm you with a better understanding of the unique pl. texas has in the history of the, quote, sharing economy. our story begins at a local community coffee shop in 2004 with two men, brian and carl. carl is a class of 79 alum so you know he has to be pretty smart. come on, you can do better than that. there you go. these two men sat down to discuss a new business idea. both men have families, each with 3 kids and a passion to travel but the hassle of a growing family of 5 into a hotel

was not the ideal option for either man so they turn like many do to the all home vacation rental model. the problem if you can recall in 2003-2004 for the silicon valley craze took off, having to scour newspapers with vacation rentals or find a vacation rental property manager was incredibly difficult. .. innovative travel websites around. it was formed around two simple concepts. to make it easier and more affordable for families and friends to travel the world together.

the company that brian and karl eventually launched in 2005 was home away. today over 1300 individuals are employed by home away across texas at our headquarters in austin and five other locations throughout the state. expedia also as many employees across the state. we have about 1500 texans employed by expedia. [applause] >> as many of you know, today short term rentals are not used just for vacation. they serve a broad variety of purposes including posting families that are remodeling their home in fort worth. business people staying in town for more than a few days. and to accommodate families during medical states that places like baylor or the heart institute. they help home owners in almost every district of this state become michael entrepreneurs and

utilize their property to make ends meet, save for retirement or just welcome travelers to their unique communities. you all should take pride in the fact that the sharing economy first took root in texas. that idea was born in texas supported in texas and still calls texas home today. as the popular of the short term rental community to grow, it's important all levels of government craft effective laws for property owners and short-term rental platforms alike. some municipalities such as galveston and national have been successful at crafting sensible short-term policies while unfortunately other cities like san francisco and portland have implemented over reaching burdensome and restrictive laws on communities and homeowners alike.

in the final analysis home away and expedia are supported of reasonable and effective regulations that can achieve compliance and protect property rights. now is the time for leadership on this important issue. now is the time to point innovative policy solutions to this most innovative travel industry. but enough of that. let's get to the main event. this man needs no lengthy introduction. he served the state faithfully for over three decades as a district judge, a member of the texas supreme court, your states ag. and for the past 14 plus years as an of the united states senate. a man respected from texas to washington for his leadership, his temperament and his judgment. ladies and gentlemen, take a sip of coffee, please join me in welcoming the honorable senator

john cornyn. [applause] will come good morning. it's great to see all of you here this morning. i know you must be exhausted. said that this is your only about halfway through the week. [laughter] but thank you for being here. thank you for your warm greeting. sandy and are delighted to be with you. i was thinking about where we are in this election season, and i was reminded of a statement by ronald reagan in 1976 when he lost the nomination for president of the united states. and, of course, he was enormously disappointed, and i know those of us who perhaps had other choices in the republican primary for president this year

experienced some discipline the. that in typical ronald reagan fashion he quoted an old scottish ballot. he said i am hurt but i am not slain. i will lay me down and bleed a while, then i will rise and fight again. and so we did. and so we will. [applause] thinking about reagan in his speech he also gave in 1964, for barry goldwater. remember that speech, time for choosing? what an incredible speech. there was a statement that he made in a speech that just resonated with me and the times we find ourselves in. because even in that speech, 52 years ago, ronald reagan spoke of a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital.

that believe they can plan better for our lives than we can for ourselves. and if that doesn't describe the obama administration in the last seven and half years, i don't know what does. [applause] so here we are at the republican convention here in cleveland ohio. this is our time for choosing. and i want to make the point that speaker ryan made, that notwithstanding the fact that many of us might have voted for and supported other candidates other than the presumptive nominee who will be the nominee of the republican party, it is time for us to come together in unity behind the trunk candidacy for president of the united states. [applause] because this again is a time for

choosing for the future of our country. speaker ryan talked about the fact that more than two-thirds of americans believe that we are on the wrong track. people dissatisfied across the board with the political status quo. i know some which focuses been on the republican primary but we have been watching what bernie sanders has been doing to hillary clinton coming within an inch of beating her for the nomination of the democratic party. after all, it is the republican party that is truly democratic in the sense that we led pashtun we let the grassroots select our nominees. [applause] we don't have superdelegates that determine the outcome before the contest even starts. but as you think about the reasons why americans feel like we are on the right track, or the wrong track i should say just think about our national security environment where china

is exercising incredible belligerents in the south china seas threatening to block the sea lanes that are so necessary to national, international peace and international commerce. think about the fact that notwithstanding what ronald reagan did when he said tear down this wall in 1989 leading to the end of the cold war, we now have a new cold war with russia and vladimir putin who has been emboldened by all the messages that the obama administration hasn't said which demonstrate that we are weak and not willing to assume a leadership role in the world. obviously north korea continues to be a huge threat to the united states with intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons the potential even down -- the western coach of the united states. then there is the global war of isis the islamic state

embracing a radical ideology that not only threatens peace in the middle east where the president drew a red line that he failed to enforce, sending the message again there was no consequence to violating that red line. but seeing this poisonous propaganda not only threatening the middle east but threatening us here in the homeland in places like garland, texas, with but for the grace of god and the great work of a security guard these two gunmen from phoenix might have done a lot of damage like we saw in san bernardino and we saw down in florida your we have hot wars still raging in iraq and afghanistan, at the same time valerie jarrett says barack obama has kept his promise to end to wars. obviously, it has not happened. james clapper, director of national intelligence, has said in his 50 years of experience in the intelligence community he

has never before seen such a vast array of diverse threats to the united states and international order. so this is from a national security perspective a time for choosing but it's not just national security. it's about the economy. everywhere i go small businessmen and women who are trying to create jobs, trying to provide for the families to me about the strangling overregulation they feel from this administration. whether it's of the department of labor, the environmental protection agency, you name it the alphabet soup of federal agencies, they are not trying to do their best to regulate in a way that protects the public. they are trying to disfavor and kill businesses that they don't agree with through tying up the banking arrangements or strangling them with regulation. but, unfortunately, perhaps the best example of bad policies

that would be discontinued by hillary clinton is obamacare. obamacare has been an unmitigated disaster for the american people, and we all know it. [applause] i was just talking with some of the representatives of blue cross blue shield which may be the last company standing when it comes to providing insurance on the individual market in the state of texas and around the country. where they predict their insurance premiums will go up 60% this year alone in the individual market because of the regulation, because of the mandates, because of the requirements of obamacare. what does that mean to us as consumers? it means the people who are experiencing flat wage growth because of the obama economy are finding increased expenses that they have to pay which means even shrinking paycheck and an ability to provide for their families. people who have insurance wind

that their deductibles are in the range of $5000 they are effectively self-insured because obamacare was a mistake when it was initiated and it has proven to be a disaster in its implementation. i will would just remind you what president obama said when he sold what i would call consumer fraud on the american people. he said the price of health care for an average family of four would go down $2500. he said if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. he said if you like your policy, you can keep your policy. nine of which has proven to be true. so it's no wonder to me that the american people are so upset with the direction of our country. i just want to make the case in closing that this is our time for choosing because we know what hillary clinton will do if she were elected president of

the united states. it would be four more years of the failed obama national security and economic policies that have been a disaster for the american people that have put us on this wrong track. but if you look at federal judges. we know that there's not just one vacancy that's been created by justice scalia's death. we know that the next president may well have the opportunity to appoint not one, not to, but maybe three new supreme court justices. justice scalia was right when he said when the american people finally realized that the members of the united states supreme court were not applying every prosecution and written laws but rather substituting their value judgments for what ought to be the policies of our country and the direction of our country, they realized something terrible was amiss. we need to make sure that our candidate, our nominee

president trump will be able to nominate those vacancies for the united states supreme court at all the lower courts. [applause] >> and if you think about those regulations which are strangling small businesses and making it impossible for them to create jobs and grow the economy, can you imagine what the party of the bernie sanders and elizabeth warren under a hillary clinton administration is likely to do? she's not only going to maintain his current policies and overregulation countries go to make it even worse. particularly in the financial sector were people can't even get access to credit. because of dodd-frank and overreach there. and again, texas and some of these areas have shown the way for the rest of the country. i agree with governor perry when he said some people talk about the texas miracle. he said but a miracle is a supernatural event. and while we have truly been blessed by providence, the texas

model really explains why our state has been so successful. because we believe in getting out of the way, getting off the back and getting our heads out of the pocket when it comes to the governor, even with the free enterprise system and the sort of opportunity that has presented for our country. the obama economy has been just the opposite with the attitude has been what additional regulation, what additional cost, what additional burden, what additional obstacle to replace in front of the free enterprise system and how to produce, continue to boost those jobs and grow the economy? the outcome has been pretty obvious. so whether it's judges, the economy, regulation, jobs, whether it's national security, to me the choice is very clear. so ladies and gentlemen, fellow republicans, friends and texans, let's do everything we can to

defeat hillary and elect donald trump, the next president of the united states. this is our time for choosing. [applause] >> i know, normally it's the chairman of your but he let me come up to be able to introduce our next speaker because he's a friend. is my congressman as i just wanted to say a couple words about him. for him, his introduction and coming up. one company is a congressman from congressional district 21. i have known -- exactly. i have known him for years. he is the chairman -- let's make sure i get this right. science, space and technology committee.

he's been the chairman of a number of other committees over the years. but the one thing i think that is so important that you know about congressman lamar smith is that he does come out into the grassroots. you will see him hold town hall meetings. he does conference calls. if you're in d.c. and you want to have an appointment with him, you can do that and sit down. he makes time for us, the grassroots. that is an incredible man. so please help me welcome my congressman, lamar smith. [applause] >> thank you, thank you. toni anne, thank you for such a nice introduction. the only thing i would add to that is that i'm the first science committee chairman in 21

years to issue a subpoena. i have issued 10 targeting this administration. i'm just getting warmed up. [applause] those subpoenas by the way of almost always been directed to the epa because i think that they are trying to impose on the american people unnecessary burdensome, costly regulations. so that is what we are trying to stop. [applause] this is a unique election. we all consider it to be unique in different ways, but i think it is an unusual election because we are actually choosing to branches of the government. the presidency and the judiciary. john cornyn mentioned not only are we picking the president but we are picking somebody who will nominate at least three new supreme court justices. talking about the replacement to justice scalia. justice ginsburg has said she will retire after the next president is chosen.

we are very happy about that. [applause] and two other justices will turn 80 in the very first term of the next president. so we will be determining the future of the country for the next generation when it comes to the supreme court, and they affect every aspect of our lives. we are picking to branches of government. if you've seen a list of donald trump's nominees for supreme court, they are actually outstanding in every one of those would support any of those individuals for the supreme court. i might augment that list was just about to put john cornyn on it as well. our candidate for president donald trump i think also stands out because he more than a lot of people is emphasizing the fact that he is for the working and women of america. donald trump spoke to the republicans in d.c. about three weeks ago, and actually i thought the most important sentence that he spoke was in

response to a question he was asked, and it was almost a throwaway line. but to me it symbolized and encapsulates the entire trump campaign. he said i am not a politician. i just get things done. and i think that's what separates donald trump. [applause] donald trump also has a campaign platform that we can all agree on. he wants to secure the border. he wants to replace obamacare. he wants to lower taxes. he wants to renegotiate trade agreements and repeal the executive orders. that alone will change the country, and instead of two-thirds of the american people think we are going in the wrong direction will have two-thirds or more thinking we are going in the right direction. the other thing donald trump is that i think is so important he's the only candidate i've ever heard of running for president who is willing to combat, willing to take on political practice and media bias.

[applause] and when it comes to media bias we ought to remember that we don't just have one opponent on the ballot. we have to. we have a democratic opponent and we have a very liberal national media. that is going to cost us a lot of points in less we combat it. when we talk about a national liberal media, just remember don't let them tell you what to think, a template with the national media says. i started to caucuses -- [applause] i started to caucuses in congress. one is the secure borders caucus and the other is the media fed his caucus to combat media bias. but i think it may be the greatest threat we face in america today because if the american people don't get the facts, they can't make good decisions. if the american people cannot make good decisions, we are going to lose our democracy. so media bias is a threat to our

country and it is a threat to our democracy. [applause] there is no worst examples of media bias and to watch what the media says about donald trump when it comes to immigration. every single day there's an article in the paper, day before yesterday it was in the "washington post" that the donald trump says all immigrants are rapists and criminals. how many times have you read that lex every single day. what he also said before the took it out of context and misrepresented what he said, he said immigrants, talking about google immigrants, he said that a good people. they continued to america. i am glad you are coming. that he had a legitimate point that we to be willing to defend and that is what he was talking about illegal immigrants sometimes being criminals. he knew what he was talking about. one-third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants. they have committed some of the most worst crimes.

did committed the rates and numbers and everything else. when you talk about one-third of the federal prisoners today being illegal immigrants, they are about 3% of the population. that means an illegal immigrant is about 10 times more likely to commit a federal crime that a number of the public. so donald trump was right in what he was saying and we ought to defend him and put it in context. [applause] if you need to persuade someone to get excited and enthusiastic about donald trump, given a choice of which keywords they want to think about. hillary clinton or supreme court. and i should take if it. when we talk about hillary clinton, don't you think after she has made tens of millions of dollars using her government jobs for gain, don't you think that's really enough for hillary clinton wax i don't think we

need to reward her any more. [applause] and do you know what hc stands for? hc. highly, what? careless right? agency, highly careless. to summarize hillary hillary mike pence make sense and triumph withdrawal. let's make america great again. [applause] we've had some great speakers. let me share with you about it before introduce introduce our next speaker because what you do not want to buy passions as state chairman has been to begin to knit our party back together again your we become very fractured and it's impossible,

it's impossible to win without being unified. so i tell you that because reince priebus that a comic international committee meeting -- a comment when he said and we are unified, the impossible becomes possible. but when we are this unified, what's possible becomes impossible. reset, differed a lot of talk this morning about candidates and we start out with 17 candidates, we end up with one. i'm wearing this hat because that's who i'm supporting for president. let there be no question. [applause] the media will do everything in its power to give you reasons not to vote for our nominee and for you to stay home. that's what happened with mitt romney. ladies and gentlemen, it was all part of the game. the democrats again to convince you not to vote. that's what we're going to see

this done. as your state chairman, i've given 135 speeches around the state since it was elected about i have said this across the state. every conservative in texas should be a republican because our party is the conservative party. every republican should feel comfortable in their party. absolutely essential. so let me tell you, so as we move into the rest of our members, or individuals who are going to speak today, our next because somebody who's been very helpful to us, very helpful to our party. he's always been very kind to take my calls, and i've called him several times, and he is very helpful to getting the legislation that's important to us, in spite of what you may third, but he's also been very helpful to get legislation to conservatives to the house. people touch base on some of those issues that have come through that he's been behind the scenes to ensure, to pass. ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome the speaker of

the texas house, joe straus. [applause] >> thank you very much, senator. thank you all your thank you very much. thank you for the nice introduction. it's good to be with anyone this money. it's a little bit intimidating not to follow the caliber of speakers we've heard from so far this morning. i sort of you like the fourth string quarterback going in for the last couple of place. i know my job, take any anti-not to fumble. it really is an honor to follow a couple of longtime friends of mine, mentors and public service to me that senator john cornyn and my congressman lamar smith. also honored to be on the same stage this morning. we heard from chairman mccaul who did a fantastic job last night at the convention and, of course, the real speaker of the

house, paul ryan. i'm grateful to speaker ryan not only for coming by this morning, not only for having the good sense to send his kids to summer camp at our hill country camps but i'm also grateful to them because he's accepted an invitation that i keep doing to come by tomorrow to anything that we are hosting a republican state legislators from around the country. i'll talk about those efforts more in just a moment. i also want to not forget to thank chairman tom america will again for his outstanding, stronger and evenhanded and fair leadership of the republican party of texas. thank you. [applause] >> so also know that part of my job is to get you out of here before they start clearing the tables and serving lunch. exhorted been a bit of a long boring but a good one. so let me just briefly touched on something that should make all texas republicans would proud, and that's the success of

republicans in the texas house back. i know, i think dan is here and maybe a few other house numbers are here and we're glad to have you. over the last three election cycles we have grown from 76 republicans in the texas house and 99. [applause] we had a razor thin two seat majority 76-74 just back in 2009 but voters across the texas have chosen republican representation for two simple reasons. number one, they believe in our principles. and number two, they trust our candidates. off and it was those of you in this room who were responsible for getting so many house republicans elected. i want to thank you for that. we depend on your energy and your hard work, and you have not let us down. that's why a republican majority

is as strong as ever. the public service isn't just about winning elections and building up your majority. it's about what happens after you take that oath of office. clint eastwood, you may remember from the last convention, was once elected a small town mayor out in california. he said one time, winning an election is a good news-bad news thing. the good news is okay, now you are the mayor. the bad news is okay, now you are the mayor. but i think there's a lot of good news from the texas house back in what we've done. we balanced our budget. we have $10 billion in reserve in our rainy day fund. we have cut property taxes business taxes and fees on texas district we've kept our business climate the strongest in the united states. we've improved transportation