this springs from the election of donald trump as president. >> to verify, you did just -- ? >> i said he should resign. later, than 30 minutes house speaker paul ryan echoed the comments from the same podium. next, we show his best conference in its entirety. -- his press conference in its entirety.

the speaker: good morning, everybody. yesterday, the house added to mandate anti-harassment for all members and all staff. i want to thank barbara comstock and jackie spear for authoring this resolution. this is an important step and one step. the committee of house administration is going to review all of our policies and procedures. one week from today, the committee will be holding its next hearing. the focus of this hearing is to examine the settlement process and reforms that may be needed. as speaker, i want to say something about this. this needs to be a workplace where everyone feels respected. no woman should have to endure harassment in any form let alone here in congress. second, i'm inviting president trump to address the joint session of congress on tuesday, january 30. this will be a good opportunity for the country to hear directly from the president on the progress we made and the work that needs to be done and we

look forward to him accepting our invitation. on tax reform, i want to make sure you saw this letter. this letter from 137 economists across the spectrum that we received yesterday. i want to read two sentences. the question isn't whether we are hurt by our corporate tax rate but how badly the enactment of tax overhaul will ignite our economy with levels of growth not seen in generations. this is one reason why tax reform is the single biggest thing we can do. with faster growth, you get bigger paychecks. with faster growth, you get better paying jobs and a higher standard of living. the focus of this plan is on hard working american families and we are providing significant tax relief for them as well.

this is to help people who are living paycheck to paycheck to keep their money and find better paying jobs. tax reform is going to make a big difference for americans of all walks of life. we are looking forward to the senate taking action and they are on the floor right now working on tax reform. and once they do, we will move to go to conference committee as soon as possible. questions. reporter: should john conyers re-sign his seat in the house? can you guarantee tax reform will be passed by the end of the year? speaker ryan: i heard what marion brown said this morning on msnbc, nobody should have to go through that. let alone, hearing congress. yes, i think he should re-sign. he should be re-sign.

i have just been briefed on the allegations, and i think you should. your second question is on tax reform. i am not a guarantee business. i can only control this side of the capitol. i'm confident we can get it done this year. reporter: the december 8 funding deadline, how long do you think a continuing resolution would need to be for a deal to be reached? speaker ryan: it would be nice if our democratic leaders would participate in the negotiations that are necessary to keep the government open and get a cap agreement. i don't know why they didn't show up for these negotiations. when you negotiate legislation, congress passes a bill and the president signs it. i did it when bush and obama was president. donald trump is our president. people should show up for negotiations. so i'm getting there. when they decide not to

participate in negotiations, they are hardly in a good place to make any demand but we have to have a short-term c.r. the duration of that, we are in talks with our own members to go through all of that. so stay tuned on that. i would 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, has passed all 12 appropriation bills ahead of the fiscal year deadline. as you all know, the senate can filibuster those things. so we will pass a short-term c.r. that is necessary to keep the government open and keep talks going and hopefully people will participate and if the senate democrats choose to filibuster, they are voting for the government shutdown. reporter: senator collins has an

agreement with senator mcconnell to get an issue addressed before the end of the year. could you support alexander murray on that? speaker ryan: i'm not going to comment. the senate did a good job of not commenting on our delivery of process while we were processing tax reform. i want to respect their process and not comment on their deliberations. all of these issues and there are a number of other questions about the amendments, those things the senate has to work out. i'm not going to comment on any of their deliberations right now. reporter: more lewd social media messages came from joe barton and constituents said he messaged lewd messages over

facebook. speaker ryan: today? i have to get back to you. reporter: have you spoken with mr. barton? and do you think he should re-sign? or face any reprimand? speaker ryan: i have spoken with him and will continue speaking with him. reporter: in the conference committee, how are the differences going to be worked out and any chance there will be a conference committee? and my question is, despite all of the things in your tax bill and what is emerging in the senate tax bill, the economy and the taxpayers. the polling on your bill, which you just finished, is not good. why do you think that is and how do you turn that around?

speaker ryan: you know what turns that around, economic growth, jobs, bigger paychecks. a more confident economy. companies bringing jobs into america from overseas. sure you can see -- what people don't see a law passing and results and pundits arguing each -- arguing against each other, are going to be confused and misled in certain directions, but results just matter. we are in the results matter. i was shaking my head up and down. we are going to go to conference. this is an important piece of legislation. this is generational defining and you don't skip the legislative process but go through the legislative process and we will be going to a conference committee. reporter: going to make the tax reform legislation retroactive? speaker ryan: i'm not going to get into the details of the end game.

reporter: [indiscernible question] speaker ryan: i don't think it will be in time for this current c.r. they are doing eight hearings just this week on it. there was a level of dissatisfaction. we have asked the appropriators to get together with the delegations to discuss the disaster supplemental and work with them. it is going to take them more than a few days to do that. they are doing eight hearings just this week on it. i think it will take the appropriators and the delegations, the u.v.i., puerto rico, texas and louisiana will take some time to work this out but we anticipate moving as quickly as we can. we know a few days is not going to be enough.

it will take longer than that. reporter: on tuesday, the supreme court is going to hear arguments -- speaker ryan: what is the case? not tracking with you. reporter: first amendment rights denying marriage to same-sex couples. speaker ryan: i haven't given any thought to it. i have nothing for you. reporter: is there a daca resolution and having that discussion at the white house? speaker ryan: you have to show up if you want to make your point, and i don't think democrats are in a good point if they aren't participating to move legislation forward and solve problems. do we have to have a daca solution? yes, we do. the deadline is march. we have other deadlines in front

of that, like fiscal year deadlines and appropriation that might. if they want to get to a solution, they ought to come to the table. i'm not going to go to the could of, would of, should have. thanks 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] [inaudible conversations] >> coming up, washington journal , lived with your phone calls. returns to work on manufacturing legislation. at 10:00, work on the republican text when continues in the senate with votes on a democratic motion scheduled for 11:00 p.m. we will have live coverage on c-span two. our firstill spend

hour on the investigations into sexual harassment on capitol hill and the second hour on british prime minister theresa may's animation of president ♪rump's -- on this friday, december 1, all lies on the senate as gop leaders scramble to win over enough colleagues to vote for tax reform legislation. 11:00xt vote will come at with a final vote later this afternoon. but first, gop leaders and the aite house need to convince few of their own senators to vote yes. we want to get your thoughts on tax reform legislation this morning. republicans, call (202) 748-8001 . democrats, call (202) 748-8000. independents, call (202) 748-8002.