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c-span welcomes to "newsmakers" this week, congressman kevin brady. he's a chairman of the key subcommittee and the vice chair of the joint economic committee, and with the new speaker elections this thursday, the day we are taping, he has announced his interest in succeeding paul ryan as the head of the ways and means committee. thank you for being with us. let me start with the new speaker of the house who -- that heaul ryan wanted a fresh start to the house of representatives. how long do you think his honeymoon is likely to be? rep. brady: it may be longer than people believe. once in ais a generation leader. he will bring new ideas and new energy to the caucus. it is a fresh start. you have someone who has led to committees who understand you can let legislators be legislators and empower people

to bring their ideas forward. some of them may be partisan and some of the maybe bipartisan, but he will put in place a can move our we legislation and that is something that is very exciting. susan: let me bring in the two reporters who will be joining us. for dumain covers congress roll call and richard rubin is with the "wall street journal." susan mentioned at the start of the program that you are interested in succeeding paul ryan as chairman of the ways and means committee. could you talk about what you would bring to that committee and how your similar to former chairman ryan and how you would be different. rep. brady: we need a progrowth conservative who can advance paul ryan's agenda. he's got a bold vision for the

committee, he's got ed idea for fixing the tax code, taking the first steps for saving social security and medicare, opening new trade and customers for american workers. we have a lot of work to do their. i have experience leading to of the subcommittees on ways and including solving the way we pay a bicameralicare, solution to help bring republicans, democrats, the house and senate, and physician groups around the country together. also because i have led a committee which i have worked hard revitalizing into a free-market think tank, that experience and the reputation working through all the ideologies, that can advance the progrowth agenda. about taxou talk reform and that is something not had aer ryan has

lot of luck getting through the committee. there was a full draft and it never came through the committee. where does that stand in your mind and what can you do if you become chairman to advance that? rep. brady: fixing the broken tax code, reining in the irs, that's the type of big ideas that come out of the ways and means committee. i'm convinced republicans in the house and some democrats believe this is the big priority for us. former chairman dave camp really created the first top to bottom rewrite of the tax code in three decades. he proved you could make it flatter, fairer, and simpler. you could grow the economy and encourage new drop -- new jobs. chairman ryan has taken other steps in the interim to make sure we are advancing it. for example, getting the scoring right so that we know the impact of a future tax code, working with democrats and republicans on international tax reform, and innovation incentives to allow

american companies to do more r&d in the united states. every step has moved is closer to tax reform. i am goingpledge -- to relentlessly pursue fixing this broken tax code, every day, every week. we are going to take some step toward fixing this broken tax code and thankfully we have a speaker and house paul ryan, who understand how this can grow the economy. that is with the ways and means committee and republicans are all about -- the growth of our families, incomes, the sales of the u.s. economy. this is our top priority and we are going to push it hard. a realistict is timeframe for that? should you just go after something international or is this a 2017 project? rep. brady: it could be a 2017 project. historically, comprehensive reform has occurred in the first year of the president's term.

have annterim, we opportunity to make key parts of the tax code permanent, such as the text development. we are the only country in the world who has a major part of it .ax code temporary that makes no sense at all. i know chairman ryan has been pursuing an agreement with the senate that could make some of these key provisions permanent. i will do the same. we are hopeful we can come together. what we want to and doing are the end of the year temporary extensions that frankly do not do the economy any good. congressman, you are so far the only official challenger for the position on ways and means. to you talk how your pitch

colleagues is different from his and how you imagine you would the a different chairman? patsy berry is a good man and has done a good job on ways and means. why -- my experience to leading to the subcommittee is health care and trade. my proven accomplishments both andhealth and secure helping solve and bring together all the elements for how we solve medicare and pay our local doctors, the doctor fixes, that is the first significant reform of medicare in decades. it is the first important step to saving medicare for the long-term. taking thatdy begun second important step, so having that experience, having the reputation working across our entire republican party to find the principles that unite us, those are our strengths.

having run a committee before, having turned one a wound -- having turned one around, doing it it away as member driven, that will be my strength. we learned fellow texan sam johnson will be the temporary head of ways and means. when will you know what the outcome is? rep. brady: a timetable hasn't been set. it could be early next week or it could be several weeks down the road. whatever it is, we will be ready and the truth is, we will need a chairman who can hit the ground running on day one. the experience i bring to the committee running the committee myself, i can do that. excited about the opportunity. we have 24 of the most talented people on ways and means that you can imagine. we reflect the priorities of our republican conference and we are really excited about the work land.

-- the work plan. we have been working on these key reforms like social security and welfare reform. this has to do with a speaker in place with the same priorities. it is really exciting. emma: i want to follow up on the question of the timetable. there's a lot of discussion about overhauling the house republican conference, diversifying and changing the membership of the steering committee, which is the leadership appointed body that helps elect who gets to serve on various committees of the house. there's some discussion about changing that make up. it could happen by thanksgiving or before or after an election. do you think you have the support you would need in the current steering committee? how do you feel about this current configuration or some other configuration we have all yet to see? that's a great

question. we intend to win support whether it's during this committee or another one. these discussions about the rules and how the house operates, how the steering committee is composed, these are really healthy discussions. i think every member wants to make sure they have a say and that their ideas are heard. have representatives at every level, so discussions so far about ideas on new will have been very healthy. i don't know what the timetable is for completing those discussions. speaker isall, a new a fresh start. one of the reasons now speaker ryan has such strong support is that he's open to those ideas he ran that's the way the ways and means committee. very entrepreneurial. if you did your work, had a good

idea, a work through for the cost of it and counted to make sure there was support, those are the bills that moved. to run this'm going committee. and that is how speaker ryan is going to run the house. you talk about tax reform is a 2017 project. obviously you are hoping for a republican president. we have heard different tax plans from the candidates. senator cruz unveiled his plan for a value-added tax to replace payroll and corporate income taxes. planu have a favorite tax from among them and what do you think of what you are hearing from the candidates? rep. brady: this is exciting. we have candidates running for president with specific .ro-growth tax proposals this hasn't happened in a long time. breadth of them, but that is appropriate because

in-house republican conference, we have a lot of ideas as well. rather than pick one from among the others is we will both way out the ideas we have heard from members, the camp draft that has been developed. pro growthot of aspects to it and we are going to lay that out and review them in detail, and courage invite our republican members to weigh in on this. we're also going to lay a foundation for tax reform. i cannot tell you how incredibly complex it is. our members need to have that foundation so they can help us reach the right conclusion. here are the principles i'm looking at -- i want a tax code that is built for growth, for families growth and when that grows our economy. i want to make sure the printable czar it is fairer, simpler.and we want to lower exemptions, eliminate loopholes so he can

lower the rates for everybody. sure smallake businesses don't pay more than large businesses, which is what happens today. ournt to make sure companies are no longer uncompetitive when we compete around the world for profit and at the end of the day, a final printable as we are not going to bailout washington's spending problems through the tax code. the is all about growing economy and doing it in a way that encourages investment along main street. i can tell you that even since dave camp laid out his draft proposal, the world has become even more competitive on the tax side, so we are going to have to go even bolder. there are a number of ways we can get there. i think the right approach is to invite everyone into this discussion. do you think the u.s. cannot afford a multi-trillion dollar tax cut of the size your

candidates are talking about? rep. brady: at the end of the day, we need a tax code that is not a drag on the economy. we need one that creates the types of jobs and investment that grows washington revenues. i'm convinced spending cuts can get us halfway to a balanced budget. i think we are going to need a much stronger economy to finish the job and finish up the national debt, which congressman ryan has made a clear goal of. we will need a strong, competitive tax code. this is all about growth and we can do this. we are talking about the gop candidates, a number of them criticized the budget vote and the deal put for.her, a deal you voted how do you square their criticism with their yes vote? is. brady: i think it dangerous to keep holding our military hostage for politics, which this president repeatedly

does. we are at war and the opportunity to fully fund our military for two years with stability and no more political gains, i will take that any day. linkresident wanted a check for more deficit spending and he was denied it. instead, he got serious entitlement reforms. the first significant ones that i have seen in a very long time. stopped thes rampant fraud in the disability program. it helped those who are truly disabled and rewards those who want to go back to work. those are key principles and at the end of the day, we insured america pays its debt in full and on time. from my key priorities -- no fundingeck, strongly our military, and making sure we pay our debt.

there were some positive things in that agreement. emma: you were one of only 79 republicans who voted for this budget deal on wednesday night. among those numbers, it was former speaker boehner who barely makes the vote. there were so few republicans who supported this. why do think more of them didn't feel as you did, that there was a compelling reason to support this? rep. brady: i think we all see a better future for our country. in the past, we have always debt ceiling fight was an opportunity to really change the way this government spends. we have had good success, more than $2 trillion in spending cuts negotiated. we all hoped we would have a president willing to sit down and actually make those reforms. many cards without

to play, speaker boehner put perhaps the highest priorities for us, which is strongly funding the military, no blank checks, and serious entitlement reforms. would have members loved for that to have gone much further than it has, but at the end of the day, the job got done and we can move forward. reforms,deas in tax trade and welfare reforms, those are the things we want to focus on. trade, youitching to got the ctp deal that will come up for a vote. you will be in a position to move it or block it. what is your thinking on the deal the administration negotiated, the transpacific what is thend timetable -- transportation -- transpacific partnership, and what is the timetable? not had thewe have

actual language sent to us. that should start the clock on this and under the new trade rules, the american public will have a full 60 days to review every word in a trade agreement. congress and lawmakers will have time to view it as well. once we start digging through that, you will see opinions form about whether this agreement is good for america. here's the point i would make. this is all about economic freedom. buying fromabout around the world. when we try to sell abroad, we find these america need not apply signs. tearing down those signs and insisting that if you are selling to america, we get to sell into your country. , we win.o that our sales go up, our exports go up, we create jobs.

i'm viewing the transpacific partnership as a huge potential customer base for american workers and companies. i want to make sure not just every commodity ended up in the right place, but that we did the right architecture and made sure there was the right place to makeour disputes when we investments in other countries and be competitive. did we get the labor and environmental provisions right? did we deal with state-owned enterprises the right way? if we get the architecture right , and oddly works for this agreement, it works for the next one, which we are negotiating with europe as well. there are currently six committee chairman's from the state of texas in the house of representatives. you would be the seventh of you were elected chairman of ways and means. there's some concern that even

though texas is the largest republican delegation house that maybe seven texas congressman running committees might be too much. what do you say to those critics? rep. brady: we are they state right about where california was with six and five germans in the recent past and a much larger delegation. term limits, we term limit our chairman, so these things tend to add and flow. all of our committee chairman are extremely talented. we are chosen by the steering committee and they were elected by the entire public and conference. at the end of the day, the ways and means is so critical, it's not just about one state. it's about the fate and the direction of our country is going. if you have a program of conservative with a proven record of working throughout our conference on health care, trade, a number of these issues that is going to listen and

unite us behind common principles, find that common ground and get the country turned back around, those skills and experience will carry the day. for viewers who don't know you, tell us about your district outside of houston and how the particular industries or people affect the way you approach issues. rep. brady: i think all of us are shaped by our lives. i grew up in the black hills of south dakota and there, it was an economy shaped by agriculture, a military base, and tourism. i chose as a profession chamber of commerce work. i loved it because you could help start small businesses and build the economy. texas, where i served, it was a heavy rust belt type industry. there were problems and refinery type issues where i lived.

where i live today is a combination of suburban and rural communities were energy is important, health is important and trade is important. i have always had a blend of a lot of rural counties. experience in almost nine different types of economies and having that main street perspective, that is what drives my role in the ways and means committee and that's why look at every issue from the standpoint of will this grow main street jobs? whether it is rural iowa, wisconsin, or new york city, what we are trying to do is grow the entire economy. that shaves my views and i think is a strength as we lead this committee. this past week, the federal reserve decided not to raise interest rates and hold that decision for later in the year. what is your view on what the

fed should be doing and whether the economy is strong enough at this point to sustain an interest rate hike? rep. brady: the fed needs to be normalizing it monetary policy sooner rather than later. they have in out of bullets for a long time. longmpact of stimulus has faded. everyone knows the fed needs to , clearly communicating its step, taking those steps to build confidence because i worry there is confidence in the fed to begin normalizing. i worry they might not only delay it but do a one and done strategy, make a minor change and then go back to what they are doing today. they could begin normalizing monetary policy by the security they haven't lowering their balance sheet. fed, while it played a key role in stabilizing the

economy, i think it has been trying to do too much for too long and over the long-term, i think it has held back investment in the united states. emma: you are the ranking member of the ways and means committee. has been the chairman and ranking member and him sure you've worked with him in various capacities. how do you think you are working relationship would be if you became chairman and mr. leven says he is running for reelection. there could be another two and a half years working together. chance to: we had a work together on the trade subcommittee both as ranking and leader and i have a terrific relationship with him. through how we solved how medicare pays its doctors, had many months of negotiations, working together to come to that

bipartisan agreement. as leader of the health subcommittee, we moved a number , significantes improvements to medicare. we continue to build those bipartisan issues and i see the relationship as very good. we are going to go to our corners on the affordable care act. we see a much different vision for how health ought to be delivered, but on saving medicare and social security for the long-term, in trade issues, i think there are parts of tax reform that if sandy levin or any member of the democrat part of the ways and means committee can agree with. we are going to take the same approach, find is common principles, respect and listen to each other and try to do a we can do to move this country in a better direction. richard: you mentioned some of

the tax extenders and tried to make those permanent. which once stand the best chance and fight for to make sure they are permanent? rep. brady: the temporary provisions that grow the economy not to made -- odd to be made permanent go to innovation and provisions that encourage a local business to invest in equipment and software, all of those drives the economy and that ought to be priority number one. enforce how important that is. is anotheris issue serious step toward competence of tax reform. brady, thank you for being our guest. if you are successful as -- in your bid as chairman, hope you will continue to join us and ask these questions about the big issues of tax reform. thank you for your time.

at the beginning, mr. brady was ryan'stic about paul success, thinking his honeymoon might be longer than some predict. the do you know about freedom caucus, which has been a thorn in the side of mr. boehner and how likely they are to cooperate? was athe freedom caucus one point prepared to vote for republican -- florida republican congressman daniel webster on the floor. ryan -- that's funny to say instead of speaker boehner -- the pitch to member that he run as a consensus candidate caused freedom caucus members to regroup a little bit and decided not to formally endorse him but give him a super majority of support. ryan was able to make the case to him that he would be a different kind of speaker and be more inclusive and collaborative, that he would bring different voices in and change the makeup of the

aeering committees and do bottom-up approach to legislating instead of a top-down. that appeals to a lot of members of the freedom caucus and they decided they were going to get on board for the time being. they made it clear that this is perhaps a trial run, that they are giving him the benefit of the doubt, but if he does not live up to promises to be this new, inclusive speaker the way they thought daniel webster could be, i don't think you will see a hesitation for them to make that known as they made it known to then speaker boehner that they were not happy with his job performance. in the candidates debate last night, there were a number they see this-- as business as usual and not republicans coming to washington to change. we will seehink that manifest itself, not the next time there's a republican priority on the floor, but the

next time there is a deadline driven, bipartisan deal that has to get out with. susan: what is the next one? a highway billve that maybe sometime in november or december, you have tax extenders mr. brady was talking about, you have the need to do an omnibus appropriations bill sometime in december. all of those can or might be places where there's an agreement between mitch -- nnell [no audio]

achard: a major -- emma: major deal with the president, whoever the president is. ultimately, he's the one who's going to have to make certain decisions. it's going to be fascinating to see how he navigates that space with these deadlines coming up. the next two months are going to foruge in setting the tone how he can handle that. bigard: we talk about the four. they've changed jobs among them. --se four have been together

the same for people negotiating everything and being in those same for jobs, from the public's perspective, when they see those photos of the white house or the president meeting with the leaders from congress, there's tableserent face at the and 2007. they negotiated in 2008 -- there has just been this shift as it's the first time it's happened a long time and ryan will inject a different voice. paul ryan does have experience as a negotiator, so he understands how to craft a deal that can go forward. richard: i wrote a story this week about that. basically i've talked to democrat to have negotiated with and they say we find he is accommodating and stuffchable and knows his

but is completely inflexible. i think what democrats are watching is how he's going to approach that and negotiate. is he the inflexible paul ryan of the conservative vision or is speaker ryan a different kind of animal? what do you think if it was speaker ryan -- the majority of public instant not vote for that budget agreement. richard: that's exactly right. he still leads a very fractured and fractious republican conference. really challenging job. there's a reason john boehner left. particularthis moment is a really tough one. susan: thanks to both of you. we are recording this on

thursday, a momentous day when and lotsa new speaker of smiles and back patting all around. we will see how long it lasts. inc. you for being with us. -- thank you for being with us. >>, remarks from outgoing speaker of the house john boehner and incoming speaker paul ryan. then, ashton carter at a senate hearing on u.s. military role in the middle east. >> it is a very touchy business being the center dot are of a dictator. you would not wish this kind of life on most people. it's a collection of interesting and sometimes lurid stories, but there are also points about tyranny, sun ship or daughter ship, about loyalty, about nature and nurture, about politics, and even about democracy. 's tonight, national review

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>> on thursday, representative paul ryan was elected speaker of the house. byt, and outgoing speech john boehner and a speech from the incoming speaker, paul ryan. this is just under one hour. the speaker: on this roll call 421 members have recorded their presence. a quorum is present. the hoist will be in order. the chair requests that members clear the aisle, take seats, nd cease audible conversation.

for what purpose does the distinguished speaker seek recognition? the speaker: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the speaker: all right. thank you. mr. speaker, i rise today to inform you that i will resign as speaker of the house

effective upon the election of my successor. i will also resign as the representative from ohio's 8th district at the end of this month. i leave with no regrets, no burdens. if anything, i leave the way i started. just a regular guy, humbled by the chance to do a big job. that's what i'm most proud of. i'm still just me. the same guy who came here 25 years ago as a small business man and spent all these 25 years trying to just be me. sometimes my staff thought i was too much like me, but it really is i'm most proud of. the same regular guy that came here to try to do a good job for my district and my country. but before i go, i want to express what an honor it's been to serve with all of you. the people's house is in my

view the great embodiment of the american dream. everybody here comes from somewhere and everybody here's on some mission. i come from a part of the world where we are used to working. as far back as i can remember, i was working, my staff was asking me the other day, on november 1, you're not going to have a job. when was the last time you didn't have a job? i thought about it and thought about it and thought about it. i thought, i had to be 8 or 9 years old because i was throwing newspapers back then and working at my dad's bar. as a matter of fact, i used to work from 5:00 a.m. on saturday morning until 2:00 p.m. for $2. not $2 an hour. $2. i never thought about growing up as the easy way or the hard way. it was just the cincinnati way. you know our city takes its name from a great roman

general, a man who answered the call of his nation to lead. and then surrendered his power to go back to his plow. for me it wasn't a farm it was a small business. and it wasn't so much a calling as it was a mission. a mission to strive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable federal government here in washington. how did we do? here are some facts. for the first time in nearly 20 years we have made some real entitlement reforms. saving trillions of dollars over the long term. we have protected 99% of the american people from an increase in their taxes. we are on track to save taxpayers $2.1 trillion over the next 10 years. the most significant spending reductions in modern times. we have banned earmarks all together. sorry. we have protected this institution.

we have made it more open to the people. and every day in this capital city there are hundreds of kids from the toughest neighborhoods who are finally getting a hance at a decent education. i'm proud of these things. but the mission is not complete but the truth is it may never be. one thing i came to realize over the years that i have been here is that this battle over the size and scope and cost of our government in washington has been going on for more than 200 years. and the forces of the status quo do -- good for an awful lot of trouble to prevent change from happening. real change takes time. yes, freedom makes all things possible, but patience is what makes all things real.

so believe in the long slow struggle. believe in this country's ability to meet her challenges and to lead the world. and remember, you can't do a big job alone. especially this one. so i'm grateful to my family, deb and my two girls, my two girls were 3 and 1 when i first ran for office. now they are a lot older. so they have been through a lot. you-all know what your families go through. it's one thing for us to take the boards and everything gets thrown at us, but it's another thing for our families. their skin isn't as thick as ours. i'm also grateful to all my colleagues. my fellow leaders, mr. mccarthy, mr. scalise, mrs. , and many on rs

my side of the aisle, our committee chairs, people i have worked with for a long time. i'm just as grateful to ms. pelosi, mr. hoyer, mr. clyburn, and becerra, and others for all of the work that we have done together. over these last five years we have done an awful lot of work together. probably more work done across the aisle over the last five years than in the 25 years that i served in this institution. now, as much as i enjoy working with all of you, some of you still could learn to dress etter. ou know who you are. i saw one of the culprits, one of the usual suspects that shows up here once in a while without a tie, but this morning he didn't dress very well but he did have a tie on. i'm grateful to the people who work in this institution every day. whether it's the reading clerks -

there are a lot of people, thousands of people that allow us to do our jobs and to help make this institution what it is. and whether it's the people you see here today or the people in the capitol police or leg counsel, there are thousands of people that do allow us to do our job. i'm grateful to my staff. now, you-all know i'm a big believer in staff. none of this can be what we are without the good staff. i certainly would never have gotten to this job without having built a great team. so really am grateful to my

staff as they like to say to each other, once you're part of boehner land, you're always part of boehner land. and that certainly goes for me as well. i'm especially grateful to all my constituents and the volunteers over the years. that includes a student at miami university in oxford, ohio, in 1990, who was putting up campaign signs for me. his name was paul ryan. i don't think he could pronounce my name back -- he was putting signs up for me. but cincinnati understood there is a difference between being asked to do something and being called to do something. . ul is being called i know he'll serve with grace and with energy and i want to wish him and his family all the best.

my colleagues, i describe my life as a chase for the american dream and that chase began at the bottom of the hill just off the main drag in redding, ohio, right outside cincinnati. top of the hill was a small house with a big family, a shining city in its own right. the hill had twists. the hill had turns, and even a few tears. nothing wrong with that. but let me tell you, it was just perfect. never forget we're the luckiest people on the earth. in america, you can do anything that you're willing to work for, willing to work hard at and things -- anything can happen if you're willing to make the necessary sacrifices

in life. if you falter, and you will, you can just pick yourself up, dust yourself off and go do it again because hope always brings eternal and if you do the right things for the right reasons, good things will happen. and this, too, can really happen to you. god bless you and god bless our great country.

the speaker: thankfully i had a gavel. pursuant to the speaker's announcement, the chair will

receive nominations for office of the speaker. and the chair recognizes the gentlelady from washington tate, mrs. mcmorris rodgers. mr. cmorris rodgers: speaker, today in the people's house, it gives me great honor to nominate the people's speaker. you don't need to look any further than the architecture of washington, d.c., to see what our founders envisioned. it's not by mistake that the dome over the congress is the very center of the federal city. the white house and the supreme court are set about us. satellite to the supreme power of the people expressed in this legislative body. in the house we are eager for a fresh start that will make us more effective to fulfill our obligation to reflect the will

of the people and to re-establish the balance of power. and there's no better person to lead us in that calling than the man i am about to nominate. he was first elected to the house at the ripe old age of 28 and he's served here now for 17 years. we all remember when he led the house budget committee, the visionary proposals, the lengthy debates and who could forget those powerpoints. he's now the chairman of the house ways and means committee, but he's more than a chairman to us. he's more than a colleague. he's our friend. he's a leader, and through it all he's never forgotten his roots. he lived on the same block he grew up in jamesville, wisconsin. there's no place he'd rather be than at home with his family. he will continue to put the people of this country first, and i can say in all candor, he did not seek this office. the office sought him.

as chair of the house republican conference, i am directed by a vote of that conference to present for election to the office of speaker for the house of representatives for the 114th congress, the representative from the state of wisconsin, the man from jamesville, the onorable paul d. ryan. -- the man from janesville, the onorable paul d. ryan. spoirk the chair now recognizes the gentleman from -- the speaker: the chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. becerra. mr. becerra: thank you, mr.

speaker. i offer my congratulations to my friend, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, on his nomination by his colleagues. and at this time as chairman of the democratic caucus of this house, i wish to place in nomination the name of a proven leader for the office of speaker of the house of representatives. a leader who has accomplished in this chamber and for this country what few can match, a leader who as speaker of this house secured passage of landmark economic recovery package legislation in 2009 which transformed a diving economy losing 100,000 jobs each month to one that's created more than 13 million 60 over the last consecutive months of job growth. a leader who has speaker accomplished what 70 years of congresses could not, enactment

of our lifesaving health security law which has put 18 million more americans in control of their and their hildren's health care. a leader who had the foresight in 2008 to fight for the biggest investment in our troops since world war ii with the passage of the post-9/11 g.i. bill and the largest investment in our veterans' health care and benefits in the 7-year history of the v.a. a leader who was not afraid to take on the challenge of fixing our broken immigration system and secured passage of the dream act in 2010.

mr. speaker, leadership is about making the tough choices and getting things done. it means knowing how to bill the majority, not just with the members of your own political party but with the 435 elected members of the house of representatives so we can get things done. this leader understands that and knows how to get things done. even while serving in the minority in this house. that's why less than 24 hours ago this leader succeeded in breaking through the gridlock in this house and secured the votes needed to avert a senseless government shutdown and a perilous default on the ayment of america's bills. thanks to this leader, 16 1/2 million seniors will not suffer a $55 a month increase in their

medicare premiums and congress will not cut the social ecurity benefits by 20%. mr. speaker, that's leadership and that's what americans expect from those they elect. that is why it is my privilege as chairman of the house democratic caucus and as directed by the colleagues of the democratic caucus, i nominate for election to the office of speaker of the house of representatives from the 12th district of the great state of california, the norable nancy patricia 'alesandro pelosi.

the speaker: the names of the honorable paul d. ryan and representative from the state of wisconsin and the honorable nancy pelosi, a representative from the state of california have been placed in nomination. are there further nominations? there being no further nominations, the chair appoints the following tellers. the gentlewoman from michigan, mrs. miller, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. brady, the gentlewoman from ohio, ms. kaptur, the gentlewoman from florida, ms. ros-lehtinen. the tellers will come forward and take their seats at the desk in front of the speaker's rostrum.

the roll will now be taken and hose the speaker: the tellers agree in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 432 of

which the honorable paul d. ryan of the state of wisconsin has received 236. the honorable nancy pelosi of california has received 184. the honorable daniel webster of the state of florida has received nine. the honorable jim cooper of the state of tennessee has received one. the honorable john lewis of georgia has received one. and the honorable colin poul has received one. -- colin powell has received one. therefore, the honorable paul d. ryan of the state of wisconsin having received the majority of the votes cast is duly elected as speaker of the house.

the sergeant at arms: mr. speaker, the speaker-elect, paul d. ryan of wisconsin.