call. what i don't understand is the democrats should at least go put a nd maybe try to little bit of input in. it's been like what, four or five times they didn't show up. mr. obama was in power, and mitch mcconnell guy, even if he didn't like the guy. at least they should do that, class, quit talking about somebody else don't have class, you know. -- quick, about the host: indiana, republican line, walter, hi there. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call, i do appreciate it. i am so excited and hopeful they going to pass this tax overhaul system. points.uick i'm an old new yorker that moved indiana 20 years ago. 20 years ago my property taxes on long island were 6800 a year. 12,000.'re getting rid of the salt tax is a

now out idea because in indiana, they are financially stable, they are very they have low property taxes, it appalls me that i have to pay f >> we take youor live to capito hill for that news conference with house speaker paul ryan. speaker ryan: yesterday the house acted to mandate anti-harassment and anti-discrimination train for all members and staff. i want to thank congresswoman barbara comstock and jackie speier for offering this resolution. this is an important step but it's one step. the committee on house administration is going to continue its extensive review of all our policies and procedures. one week from today the committee will be holding its next hearing on this matter. the purpose of this hearing is to example the reporting and settlement process and look at any reforms that may be needed. as speaker i want to say something about this. this needs to be a workplace where everyone feels safe and respected. no woman should have to endure

harassment in any form, in any institution, let alone here in congress. second, i'm formally inviting president trump to address a joint session of congress on tuesday, january 30, in order to report on the state of the union. this will be a good opportunity for the country to hear directly from the president on the progress that we have made and the work that needs to be done on our shared agenda. we look forward to him accepting our invitation. lastly, on tax reform, i want to make sure that you saw this letter. this letter from 137 economists across the ideological spectrum to congress that we received yesterday. i want to read two sentences from this letter. the question isn't whether american workers are hurt by our country's corporate tax rate, it's how badly. the enactment of comprehensive overhaul, complete with a lower corporate tax rate, will ignite our economy with levels of growth not seen in generations. this is one reason why tax

reform is a single biggest thing we can do to help middle income workers. nd with faster growth, you get bigger paychecks. with faster growth you get better paying jobs. with faster growth you get a higher standard of living. of course the focus of this plan is on hardworking american families and that's why we're providing a significant tax relief for them as well. that's the whole purpose of this. to help people who are living paycheck to paycheck, not only keep more of their own money in the first place, but to help them make more money and find good, better paying jobs. tax reform is going to make such a big difference for americans of all walks of life. the we're looking forward to the senate taking action on our bill. we're enthused and excited they are on the floor right now working on tax reform. and once they do, as the majority indicated yesterday, we will move to go to conference committee as soon as possible. questions? reporter: mr. speaker, should

john conyers resign? also can you guarantee tax reform will be passed by the end of the year? speaker ryan: first, marion brown, is that her name? i heard what she said this morning at nbc. no one should have to go through something like that, let alone here in congress. yes, i think he should resign. i think he should resign immediately. i have just been briefed on the torrent of allegations and i think he should. your second question was on tax reform. i'm not a guy in the guarantee business because i can only control this side of the capitol. i'm very confident we can get this done this year. reporter: tomorrow marks one week before the december 8 funding deadline. based on the current state of play, how long do you think the continuing resolution would need to be? what point would that come together? speaker rye yan: it would be nice if she they showed up to meetings and participate in the negotiations necessary to not just keep the government opened but a cap agreement.

don't know why they decided not to show up for those negotiations. when you negotiate legislation, congress passes a bill, the president signs it, and that's why congress and the president's negotiate legislation. i did it when bush was president. i did it when obama was presidentment donald trump is our president. people should show up for negotiations. when they go -- when they decide to go to negotiations, they hardly in any good place to make any demand. we're going to have to have a short-term c.r. the duration of that c.r., we're in talks with our own members. we'll have a conference with our members to go through all that. stay tuned on that. i would also like to point out the fact that the house has passed all the appropriation bills. the house passed all 12 appropriation bills in september . so we here in the house i think for the first time since 2004 as a republican majority have passed all 12 appropriation bills on the head of the fiscal year deadline.

as you-all know the senate can filibuster those things. we will pass a short-term c.r. that is necessary to keep the government opened, to keep talks going, hopefully people will decide to participate in these talks, and if the senate democrats choose to filibuster that, they will have chosen to shut the government down. something we didn't want to see happened. reporter: senator collins claims she has been agreement with senator mcconnell to get e alexanderer-murray issue addressed before the end of the year. could you support alexander-murray under those circumstances? speaker ryan: i'm not going to comment on end games on tax reform or conference committee issues. i think the senate did a very good job of not commenting on our delivered process while we were processing tax reform. i want to respect their process. i'm not going to comment on their deliberations while they are in the midst of considering tax reform. all these issues, and i'm sure there are a number of other questions about the amendments

today, those things the senate has to work out and we'll work with the senate on the endgame in the conference committee. i'm not going to come out in any of their deliberations right now. reporter: mr. speaker, more lewd social media messages surfaced today from congressman joe barton, apparently a constituent said that he had messaged over facebook some lewd messages? speaker ryan: today? i'll have to get back to you on it. reporter: this is in addition to the photos and the videos. have you spoken with mr. barton? do you think that he should esign or face any sort reprimand? speaker rye yan: i have spoken with him and will continue to peak with him. reporter: is a conference committee how the differences will be worked out, or is there

any chance it will be a concerns committee? my harder question is, despite all of the things in your tax bill and what is meerging in the senate tax bill that i know you guys feel very good about. good for the economy and taxpayers. the polling on your bill, which is finished, is not good. why do you think that is? how do you turn that around? ryan: companies bringing money to america from overseas. what people don't actually see a law passing and results occurring, and banter on television and pundits arguing against each other are going to be confused. they are going to be -- they are going to be misled in certain directions. results are what matter. we're in the results business here. that's why getting this done. i was shaking my head up and down in the meeting, we're going to go to conference. this is such an important piece of legislation, it's

generational defining. you don't skip the legislative process. you go through the regular legislative process. that means we'll go to a onference committee. eporter: trettrow active -- speaker ryan: i'm not going to get into the end game of the conference. reporter: offered a bill still being formed. it sound like texas and florida members and puerto rico u.s. virgin islands, can you give us an update where are you and if that will be added to the c.r.? speaker ryan: i don't think it will be on time. the appropriators have eight hearings this week. there was a level of dissatisfaction with the allegations with the o.m.b. submission. we asked the appropriators to get together with these delegations to discuss the disaster slell and work with them on compiling a disaster

supplemental. it will take them more than a few days to do that. they are doing eight hearings just this week on it. i think it's going to take the appropriators and these delegations the u.v.i., puerto rico, texas, florida, louisiana going to take them time to work this out. we do anticipate moving us quickly as we can. we know a few days is not going to be enough. it's going to take longer than that. reporter: mr. speaker, on tuesday the supreme court is going to hear arguments in the masterpiece -- speaker ryan: what case? reporter: the case of the baker smage case. king a mr. ryan: i haven't given any thought to it. i have nothing for you. one more. reporter: did you know democrats had been pushing for some sort of -- [inaudible] end up having that discussion at

the white house? speaker ryan: you have to show up if you want to make your point. don't think democrats are in a good position to make demands if they are not going to participate in the negotiations necessary to move legislation forward and solve problems. do we have to have a daca solution? yes, we do. the deadline is march as far as i understand it. we've got other deadlines in front of that like fiscal year deadlines and appropriation deadlines. but if they want to get to a solution, they ought to come to the table and start talking. i'm not going into would have, could have, should have. with all due respect. thank everybody. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> earlier this morning house democratic leader nancy pelosi called for michigan congressman john kearse to resign following allegations of sexual harassment the. reporter: a fourth woman has come out accusing conyers.

more in your caucus are calling on conyers to resign. how come you haven't called on him to resign? ms. pelosi: the allegations against congressman conyers as we have learned more since sunday are serious, disappointing, and very credible. very sad. the brave women who came forward are owed justice. i pray for congressman conjers and his family. and wish them well. -- conyers and his family and wish them well. however congressman conyers should resign. as dean congressman conyers has served our congress for more than five decades and shaped some of the most consequential legislation over the last half century, however, zero tolerance means consequences. for everyone. no matter how great the legacy it's no license to harass or discriminate. it makes it even more disappointing. yesterday the house took a first step mandating sexual harassment

and discrimination training. that resolution on the floor. the next step, important for us for congress to pass. that's a resolution in the house to mandate nondiscrimination and nonsexual harassment training. the senate has their own resolution which they passed. however the next step is a bill that must pass the house and the senate and that's me too congress act to create greater transparency and accountability reporting, and settlement system. that is being discussed now. maybe some additions will be made. again, we will all work together to lead the fight against sexual harassment and abuse. not only in congress, but in every workplace across the country. everywhere in our country. as far as capitol hill is concerned, we need to be sure that everyone who works here, who might be a victim of this, whether it's staff to staff,

member to staff, member to member, understands it's all over. the there is a new day. and the courage of the women coming forward is something that is making a big difference. but also the attitude in the country, which i think some of it springs from the election of donald trump as president. that's all i'm going to say. reporter: just to clarify did you call for conyers to resign. ms. pelosi: i said he should resign. reporter: have you said that to him? ms. pelosi: i'm saying that right now. reporter: you mentioned the me too legislation that you are advocating for. do you support that retroactively? meaning settlements should be publicized? ms. pelosi: we met with the house administration committee, some of our members who are democrats there. some of the members who have served on o the ethics committee, which i have for seven years, and some of the -- our members who have introduced legislation, eleanor holmes

norton, brenda lawrence, certainly jackie speier our champion on this subject. now we'll hear from some legal experts on the subject as to what we can do. and then we'll broaden the universe of input that we have. and then we'll see what that legislation looks like. we're going to do as much as we possibly can can for transparency, to your question, and also for how the victims are compensated. reporter: then you support retroactivity. ms. pelosi: we'll see what the law will allow. it may be we have to add something to the bill to do that. but -- there is a whole question as to whether we can just say we free you of your -- whatever, obligation that you have. as i have said, though, congress can pass a law to give immunity to people if they feel that they can't speak. again we want to unconstrain the

victims from coming forth. thank you-all very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> the house is back at noon eastern to work on several bills. one would set policy for the e.p.a.'s brownfield hazardous waste cleanup program. another would expand the probationary period for new federal employees and also new managers in the federal government senior executive service. when the house comes back into session at noon eastern, live coverage here on c-span. until then a conversation from this morning's "washington journal" on the senate g.o.p. tax bill. on in the senate, ryan joins us from capitol hill. he's the appropriations and tax reporter. good morning to you. guest: good morning. host: the fact that we're already in a debate on this,