and, you know, if you don't have a good education, you don't have a pathway up into the middle class. and you have folks in the democrat party that say, listen, i'm not going to stand with those kids and give them a ticket to prosperity, which is a ticket to a better a better educating school. instead, i'm going to buy out to the to to the unions of the schools and sure, those kids, based on their zip code, are stuck in failing schools. that's failing the kids. and listen, if you have schools that fail. let's make sure we have competition. let's let someone else come in and say, listen to the moms and dads of these children. i've got a better way to do it. will educate your kids more effectively. they'll come out and they'll get that ticket up into the middle class. but right now, you see democrats pushing back on that. and i think it's more of a union issue and a money issue as opposed to standing up for kids in america. well, we'll have to leave the conversation there. congressplease welcome united ss

representative sean duffy of wisconsin and his wife, rachel. hey. hello, america. i met rachel. 19 years ago on american girls first reality tv show. six weeks ago, we had our eight little baby. who said nothing good comes out of reality tv tv. so with a family of ten, it gets a little. so we have some pretty simple rules in our house. clean your room.

no teenage boys in your bedroom? no waking mom and dad up on saturday mornings? no private servers in the basement basement. and no lying, especially to the fbi. for us. for us, it's all about family. i come from a long of lumberjacks. my irish family were farmers and sawyers, who came to wisconsin to work. they knew anyone could succeed in america with great faith and family. my grandparents came here from mexico.

they settled in arizona where my father was. shoeshine boy. by the age of, he started his own business making pinatas. my mother taught herself english, and both my parents attended night school and earned their degrees while raising a family. hard work. that's right. hard work. discipline. self-reliance and opportunity. that's the american dream we believe in. and it's a dream that's bigger and more satisfied dying than any bureaucrat or government check could ever hope to deliver. our grandparents chose to be americans, and we choose to be

republicans because the republican party offers upward mobility rooted in individual liberty and economic freedom. we cannot let america become like the corrupt social bliss regimes that our families behind. set. sadly barack obama and hillary clinton have left us. $19 trillion in debt and thousands of new rules and regulation are crushing the american workers. do you want four more years of that. radical radical jihadists or killing americans while all the time.

hillary clinton and barack obama are fretting over whether to call it workplace violence or a hate crime. do you want four more years of that that? we need to unify behind new president who can strengthen, protect and restore our nation for the next generation. every every morning i look into the eyes of what's at stake in this election. our children, yours and mine. the challenges facing america have never been greater. we must. those challenges. yeah. we can make great again. and we will. but it's going to take all of us

in wisconsin. and hello, wisconsin. we turned our blue, red. we have won every election except the big one. we can't stay home now if we're going save our country. america let's rally behind donald trump. and together, let's make america great again. may god bless you all. let's have a great convention.

well, i first want to thank governor christie for the warm up act that was very nice of him right now. listen, it's good to be with you all. did you guys see his speech last night? it was awesome. i went down to the house floor. i don't know how the the the floor. last night i had our little baby, our six week old baby. and i was, you know, the baby asleep. and and he started doing this thing guilty or not guilty in the crowd. you know, we all are guilty. and i couldn't stop. i'm yelling guilty. and the baby, instead of starting to cry, my little baby starts to smile as we're all yelling guilty about hillary clinton. it was a it was a fun, fun night. and i just am so impressed and so thankful that governor christie is part of our party. i hope my wife does work for the lieber initiative. they are here today under the

leadership of daniel garza. i am so grateful for all that leverett does. there they are. they're fantastic. on the front line, going into communities, matching the liberals, talking about free enterprise. liberals have i mean, so many different organizations and so many different communities and we conservatives, where do we match them? one of the main groups that matches the liberals talking about the ideas that we believe in is the libra initiative. and without them, i don't know what we have in regard to the to the to the communities that matter, the votes that matter in the states that matter. so, daniel, thank you and thank you all of your library and all the hard work that you do. quickly, i want to just talk about the election. i only have a couple of minutes with you, but a lot of people look at hillary clinton and they're like, oh, you know, hillary clinton. i look at the 1990s and bill clinton and he was a moderate and he worked well with repubs

like kids and the economy grew. it was a great time in america or some thought. the problem is hillary clinton is not bill clinton and this is not 1990. if you look what's happened with george bush in 2004, george bush said, you know what, i'm not going to do the traditional thing where i'm i'm move from my conservative base and into the middle to win votes. what bush did in oh four is he said, no, i have to go win conservative votes. i'm going to motivate my base and i'm going to turn them out and i'm going to win. and he was successful. barack obama has done the same thing. instead of coming to the center, this guy has gone far left and he's won. so if anybody thinks that hillary clinton is going to be moderated by bill clinton and come to the center and be a moderate, you're absolutely wrong. she is going to go over and help govern with bernie sanders, a socialist, elizabeth warren.

this will be the team that will have in place running our country. and if you look at the socialist policies that bernie advocates for that, elizabeth advocates for and now hillary advocates for these don't offer upward mobility. they don't offer prosperity. they bring you despair, whether it's cuba or venezuela or argentina or southern european countries, they never grow economies. they destroy economies. and they want to come to us with a message and say, i've got more free stuff for you. i'm going to offer you more. conservatives will never offer more free stuff than liberals. we'll never do that. but what we will do is offer more opportunity. we will offer more upward mobility. that's what will offer. and i think that that message resonates. i think i think most of us in this country want the same

american dream and the same opportunity that our parents had. and i, i have the opportunity to sit on the house financial services committee. we deal with banking and housing insurance. the federal reserve. i would call this the plumbing of free enterprise. if this doesn't work, our economy doesn't work. and i, i going to have the gavel on oversight and we ask for documents from the administration because the congress oversees the executive. do you know what i get? i get nothing. and we'll push them harder. and when they do respond, they'll send me their press releases and their news clippings. we have to start to subpoena documents. we have to bring people in for depositions to get them to comply. if your government can't oversee these bureaucrats that have so much power, the power is unchecked. and this power has been unchecked. and we need it. we need to change the balance

between our three branches of government. we've lost that balance over the course of generations. we have to bring it back. and i look at at home in my state of wisconsin. so many people have issues with bureaucrats who impose significant rules and regulations that have a big impact on their lives and on their businesses and on their communities. and they'll come to me or they'll go to senator ron johnson in wisconsin or they'll go to sometimes, god forbid, tammy baldwin and they go could you help me? there's a new epa rule that's destroying my business. can you help me roll that rule back? yes, i do. i go, oh, i'll write a letter for you. we write letters. these bureaucrats impose rules and regulations that have the force of legislation that congress is supposed to legislate, and which means the people can petition us for good or bad. but the people have a voice because the congress is the ones

who makes the law. but if you take the power away from the congress and you put it with the executive, the people don't have any power anymore. it's gone. our founders envisioned a different model where people were empowered in their government and had a say in their government. but the rise of the executive and the diminishing of the congress has offset this balance. i think that is the main issue we have to get right in the house of representatives, and it's not going to take us a month or a year. it's going to take us a while to get to the point where we have a balance. but if your congress doesn't have a voice, you don't have a voice. and it's going to take conservatives, republicans, when they have a republican president to keep that republican president in check. because i can tell you what, liberals right now have no desire to keep barack obama in check. they agree with his policy. so they give him more power and they applaud the diminishing in of the congress, his authority

and power to oversee the executive. so that's what the house is working on. and i think that is one of the biggest issues that we're addressing. and we get that right with our policies that have limited government, less regulation offers, more opportunity, more freedom, and in the end, more upward mobility. so i want to i want to thank you all for letting me come and just chat for a couple of minutes. i send my my regards from my wife, her regards to you. and now she'll be back on the floor tonight. she had a little trip to automate today. she left that at at 640 this morning on an airplane when did a little meeting and she's flying back all with the baby working her tail off to make sure that we make this country a better place. i'm grateful for what she does. i'm grateful for what the latino coalition does and for what all you do. god bless. and you guys have a great lunch and a great convention.

this time. i yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin, zimmerman from wisconsin to recognize. i appreciate the german for yielding and thank you, mr. speaker. i just want to note at the start of this resolution for the first three pages, i agree with everything. we have great quotes in here of our founders and american presidents. talk about the strength of this country that has come from immigrants and immigration and. i wholeheartedly concur. as we get to page four, though i have significant disagreement.

i would note that on four on the whereas it's noted that trump's racist comments have legitimized and hatred of new americans and just want to make a point to my friends across the aisle because in paragraph two you note that it's it's committed to keeping america open to those who lawfully seek refuge and asylum from violence and oppression, lawfully seek refuge and asylum. but would note that just recently, president trump has said who have sought asylum had a hearing and have a deportation order. you are all offended by that. you didn't include in your resolution those who had deportation orders issued. your opposition to them being removed. so you actually agree with and president trump that those who have lawful orders of deportation should be sent out of the country just to cite your resolution. but i want to note, mr. speaker, that i've looked closely at the chain of three tweets sent out by president trump. and in those tweets, i see

nothing that references anybody's race. not a thing. i don't see anyone's name being referenced in the tweets. but the president's referring to people, congresswomen, who are anti-american. and lo and behold, everybody in this chamber knows who he's talking about, who are the anti-american members of congress. he didn't say their names. he did not say their race. but commented on what they view, how they view america. and we all know who he's talking about. i want to come to this country. but as you come to this country, shouldn't you love this country? we all come here and see imperfection. and we work every week trying to make our country better. but to say, i wholeheartedly i dislike country. the fact that i'm going to call the president and that man for good lord, what does the institution become? and then it come to this floor and chastise the president for a couple of tweets when that's the language you use against him. that is rich. mr. speaker, that that's the

language that the left would use and then try to call up the president who didn't cite a race or he didn't cite a name. i look at this. and i think we are all called to do better and be better. we should make this country better. but when i look at some who say i believe that socialism is a pure of government and a better economic economy over capitalism that has given us the freest, most generous, most prosperous country ever existed on the face of the earth that we want to we want to trade this in for system that has always failed. i think you're going to see republicans push against that. and i think many democrats push back against that. and i think that's what this argument really comes down to. and i'm one of the note i look at some of my conservative colleagues, whether it's candace owens, diamond and silk. justice thomas, who are

i want to thank my good friend from wisconsin for for yielding tonight. i got to tell you it's a pretty unique and cool feeling to stand in this well and hold on to this podium for the last time. what an honor it is to serve in this house and stand in this chamber. i want to take a moment as i give my last address to the to the house to thank my constituents who i have put so much faith in me that they would give me the opportunity. a guy from small town wisconsin from hayward, wisconsin, who had a family and grew up doing lumberjacks parts, would give me the opportunity to come here and represent them and they've done

that five times. five times over. and i would just note that they have been so kind to me, whether they agreed with me, not whether i was at a town hall or a or a a lincoln day dinner, a dairy breakfast or a parade or a fair. the kindness that has come from my constituents, as i've done best to serve their interests, interests i could not fill my heart with greater pride and joy to represent the people of wisconsin. seventh congressional district, which is the central, northern and western part of our great state. but as many of us will tell you that i don't think our founders ever envisioned that to come to this chamber, it should a lifetime sentence. we were supposed to come be a citizen. legislators and serve our time and and then step aside, let someone else step forward and do

the good work and in news report says, i've announced that i was going to step aside. people will say that sean duffy seat. well, i think we should correct that. it is not my seat. it not my predecessor seat. it's the people seat that they get to choose every two years. well, now this is going to be eight months in a new congressman to represent them. it is the people's seat. it is not mine. it is. it theirs. so thank you to the seventh district. i want to say thanks to my fellow colleagues and members of congress on both sides of the aisle. we get a bad rap in this chamber where people tell us, you guys are so dysfunctional, you guys can't get along. you guys can't get anything done and there's some truth to that. there's a lot of bickering. there is a lot of fighting and yes, sometimes we don't get a lot done. but i'll just tell you this, that people along a lot better across the aisle than meet the

eye on some of the major news networks. and though it might not be tax reform or immigration reform, there's a lot of legislation that we work on together that we try to try to find bipartisan compromise that cannot just pass our committees, but can the house and can get our dysfunctional friends in the senate to actually pick up and, pass we and get to the president's desk? it happens a lot. the chamber, i think, though, is going through some difficult times. we we're actually working and i'm of that. and i just i'm proud to serve with my ranking member, patrick mchenry, who has so kind and generous to me. i've actually enjoyed serving maxine waters some of the committee subcommittee chairs and ranking members like al green and and lacy clay and emanuel cleaver have become good friends of mine and i honor their and i'm grateful for it.

but sometimes oftentimes we better than were given credit for. i want to take a second, because i think this is such important part of debate that we're having today and talk about american capitalism. i mean american capitalism is as the american model. it's been our american way that has brought us more opportunity, more prosperity, upward mobility, more innovation, more creativity, more generosity than any other country that has existed on the face of the earth. and part of that american capitalist is an idea that now that we don't have no government, but that we have limited and not that we have no taxes, we have a limited taxes. and what you saw over two years of a republican majority in the house and the senate with

republican president is we did those things. and the net end result was, what we thought it would be. we put people back to work. when i ran the first time you know nine years ago, we had people who couldn't find jobs families who were suffering. we would have a i heard all the time families would say, i wish we had a better economy because i want my kids to be able to stay in our hometown and get a job in our hometown and their family in our hometown. so we can have an extended family, but they have to leave. they have to go to milwaukee or minneapolis or chicago or warsaw somewhere else to get a job. but they can't stay here. but today, after we've implemented these reforms, it is profound what's happening. people are going back to work in wisconsin. our wages are up and unemployment is down. we have more jobs in wisconsin than we have people to fill. those jobs. that's the success story.

american capitalism. i'm of that. and though everybody may not agree that it's been those policies that have created it and some of those were on the left, when they dig deep in their heart, they can't deny that what we've done has made their lives better. and so often we have in my in my district, it's been the forgotten men and women, men and women who feel like people come to this chamber, to this town, and they engage in that are irrelevant debates that don't make their lives better, debates that don't improve their economy. maybe it's a debate that might improve the coasts or, you know, global corporations, but it's a debate that doesn't help their rural, small town community and they've seen over the last few years that their voices have been heard. their pain has been heard. and it's been addressed. and for that, they are incredibly grateful.

when you shop wal-mart and you have hard time figuring out where your where going to get the dollars to pay your mortgage or how you're going to send your kids to school. and if you lose your job that it all collapsed us. and in today's market they look and go this is really great this has improved so much we couldn't be more grateful for the economy and the system that has offered this prosperity that we now feel. and i'm troubled that even though we've had the success of a free enterprise system in american capitalist system, we now have a debate in this chamber where people want to go to a different model. right. we have a debate saying we want to we want to go to socialism. socialism should be the model of america's future. and that the promise of socialism where we can all be equal and we can all get free, we can just tax rich a little bit more and give a little bit

more to you. and it's to be a beautiful economy. those promises have been made throughout human history and promises always fail. do you want to go to the old soviet union, whether want to go to venezuela or cuba, it never works. this country actually fought socialism in europe. we fought socialism in our universities. and now we're fighting socialism in the halls of congress. we can't lose this fight because if we lose this fight, we lose our future. and you lose the future. you don't leave anything off to your kids. and so i hope that this chamber will recalibrate and think through what the best economic model. is to continue with that prosperity, continue with that opportunity. for our kids and for our next generation. but as we talk about maybe equality and opportunity, i do think there's a really important

point. as the socialist talks about the equality of the outcome. i think our has been the equality of opportunity. and when i look at communities in america and communities in wisconsin and you can look at a zip code of that community and you will be able to recognize the opportunity and, the poverty of the kids that are being in those communities by their zip code because of the system they have in place in those communities, in those codes. that's travesty. that is not equal opportunity d that is given a group of kids the short end of the stick. and so as i've been in this chamber, i have fought for school choice. because if you're a parent and you're a child and you have a failing school, you should have the opportunity to get of your failing school and go to a school that is going to give you the skill sets and the tools to take advantage of the great

american economy. you should have that right. you should have that option and that school choice. and i would love if we make the schools better in these communities and we should fight to do that. but these kids can't wait. and so i hope the fight for school choice. i fought in this chamber for free trade, but have also fought with our president for fair trade. and we have people who take advantage of this economy of mike constituents and say it's free trade or free trade isn't free trade. if it's not fair trade. and i couldn't support the president more in his fight against china to make sure that we have a fair system with their growing economy. and it's not easy. i look in this chamber oftentimes there's not a lot of political courage. but you have a president who one of the greatest things he has going for him is the great economy. and he's willing to jeopardize

this great economy, to risk the great economy and engage in a trade conflict with china, not to help him in the next election, but to help american kids in the next ten, 15, 20 years. that's what real do. that's what courage is in a leader. and that's what our president has done on this fight. risk in the economy for the kids and our future to make sure we're still the number one economy and the number military. one of the great issues i'm proud to have fought on is the issue of life. i don't i don't think that there is anyone who is more vulnerable, more voiceless than the unborn. and to have been in this chamber. and to have been able to lend my

voice to those who don't have one has been an amazing honor. and i think that this will be a scourge at this time period in american history. and we've had time periods in our past that we haven't stood up and fought. the science tells us, as you look at a four day ultrasound, what that baby is in the womb and i am on the right side of history to have fought for the millions of little babies who have lost their lives over the course of the last 40 plus years. and i hope chamber one day can see that life does begin at conception, that we shouldn't be having a debate about late term birth abortion. we shouldn't be having a debate about how we allow children to

die more comfortably after they're born. that that is outrageous it is frankly disgusting, and that we shouldn't get that right as a as a cause. my, my, my, my final. are from this. well well. i want to thank my team. any member of congress. anyone who serves in this institution. i can't do it without great people with them, great people surrounding them, fighting not with them personally, but fighting on the issues with them. it doesn't work. and over the course of the last eight and a half years, i've had the most remarkable team to serve with me and work with me. and though they have worked for me, there are some of my best who have stood with me and are

and i couldn't be more grateful that they have come into my life and come into my district and our community and not just fought so hard with me, but fought so hard for the people that i represent to make sure their issues are covered, to make sure that their voices were heard and they helped me amplify my constituents voice. and i want to thank pete in my district team and jesse pete in the in the dc team. and jesse in the district team for their their endless effort and. my constituents were well served by them. so thank you. and finally. i want to thank my family. when i started, i didn't have as many kids and actually i have patrick and marguerita and

stevie and paloma, who didn't know their father at any point other than as a congressman but some of my older kids were well aware of what we did before. my my oldest daughter, rita. we did our first grade together. and i was terrified i was terrified to do a parade. and this little nine year old girl came up with me with the most courage and all of have stood with me and worked with me and campaigned with me. it has been a family endeavor and anyone who runs, they know the sacrifices their families go through. and my family has been great going to parades and going to in wisconsin, we do dairy breakfasts, going to dairy breakfasts and they have been there supporting me and working with me. and i couldn't more grateful for them. and as her dad comes out to the

congress four days a week, i'm not there as much. and they have supported me through this whole effort. this whole adventure. and a dad can't do that unless he has kids who support him. so to all of them, from the cia to a evita to patrick and john paul and marguerita and mighty. we might. how are you doing? and paloma? jack, i want to thank all for the support and love you've given me and. i want to thank my wife, who i would not be here without her. when i ran. everyone said. i could never make it to this chamber. i could never win. and she was the one who said, no, i think you can and i think you can represent these people, your people well. and we did it together.

and when i'm here, as every spouse who has someone who comes here, she was the one who held up our house. she was a single mom. and we have a kid. she's a single mom with eight kids. and you have to be incredibly dedicated and devoted and passionate about what we do in this chamber. if you're going to be a single mom with eight kids and let your husband go off and fight the great fight of the day. and so i want to tell her how much i love her and how grateful i am that she has supported my dream to come here and fight the good when i won on my first night on election, i said that the battle for america's future is a fight against socialism. it is a battle to return our nation to the principles that made america different, that made america that made america, i think that couldn't be more

true today. and me and rachel and my team and my kids, i couldn't be more grateful that they have stood with me to help engage in that in that fight. so for the final time, as i step out of this. well with a grateful and might not be obvious, but a happy heart, i want to thank my colleagues for their friendship. i want to thank the great of wisconsin for their trust. i want to thank my whole family for their support. and i want to thank god for his blessings and this opportunity and for the wisdom to know when my time is up.