so after the fire there's aliases and nicknames, bill larson, deacon of new orleans church, dewayne george mitchell, michiganel at the upstairs lounge, this would hamper efforts by the coroner to id the victims for a period of days but ordinarily through these mechanisms these convoluted methods not only did gays remain safe in new orleans but then the average new orleans didn't have to acknowledge what was happening right in front of everybody's noses, all right, and those -- they could also appear upstanding when they did choose to violently punish those who didn't point out what was happening in the underbelly along the other vices which the city had managed, for decades if not centuries, prostitution, gambling, drugs, dancing, jazz and sodomy, homosexuality, dare not speak its name. most were private and paranoid by being caught by police who would beat you down if you did not bribe them first. homosexuals was so discreet that they stuck to private parties and wouldn't be so brave as to be seen at the upstairs lounge on beer bust night. so let's deepen our understanding of the upstairs

support of our founder and our board and long-term investors like eddie lampert and michael larson through billify the business that's a statement of humility i'm not picking which one is winning. i'm going to be into all and then we diversify geographically from california, central texas, into florida but then we had a very strong operating model and did something nobody else in the industry has ever did. we centralized everything for control and finance out of texas. that everybody's on the same accounts combine that with a investment grade balance sheet. it put us in a position that we're in a cyclical business where there's volatility around the stock and you're out of favor, we can buy it aggressively so joe, we've repurchased 85% of the outstanding shares of autonation in my time here for less than 20% a share for something like $9 billion. so we took a disadvantage and made it an advantage finally to your point, can you run this as one entity the fact we built a brand from coast to coast that stands for something, our treatment of customers, our value products that we offer to them, and

bill? >> in its current form. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the motion. caller: mr. larson of connecticut moves to recommit the bill back to the committee on ways and means. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will suspend. a point of order is reserved. the clerk will read. caller: with instructions to report the same back to the house forthwith with the following amendment. add at the end the following new title. title 3, effective date. section 3, short title. this title may be cited as the protect medicare and social security trust funds kt of 2018. section 301 effective date. notwithstanding any other provision of this act new york provision of this act or any amendment made thereby shall take effect unless an until the cheaf actuaries of the medicare hospital insurance fund and old age and survivor insurance insurance trust funds have certified the enactment of this act will not harm these trust funds. such shall be based on widely agrowed on economic theory and accepted models of distribution and growth. the speaker pro tempore: purr soothe -- pursuant to the rule, the

support congress member larson's amendment which will give our seniors security and stability by ensuring the stability of the social security and medicare trust funds before this bill could be enacted. reckless republican policies have endangered the welfare of our seniors by depleting the medicare trust fund in order to fund tax cuts for corporations. while the rich get richer, republicans have decided it's our seniors who must foot the bill. the republican budget released this summer would cut $500 billion from the medicare program, just one of the many programs that would suffer in order to pay for the $2.3 trillion tax cut. while president trump is claiming that his party is making medicare and social security stronger, the reality is that republican policies and the first tax scam have drained three years from the life of the medicare trust fund and one year of life from the social security trust fund. and yet this republican congress seems to be completely ignoring that issue. instead we're now doubling down on the impacts of the first tax scam in order to mark up bills that will cost the government $3 trillion, further jeopardizing these critical programs. i

support congress member larson's amendment which will give our seniors security and stability by ensuring the stability of the social security and medicare trust funds before this bill could be enacted. reckless republican policies have endangered the welfare of our seniors by depleting the medicare trust fund in order to fund tax cuts for corporations. while the rich get richer, republicans have decided it's our seniors who must foot the bill. the republican budget released this summer would cut $500 billion from the medicare program, just one of the many programs that would suffer in order to pay for the $2.3 trillion tax cut. while president trump is claiming that his party is making medicare and social security stronger, the reality is that republican policies and the first tax scam have drained three years from the life of the medicare trust fund and one year of life from the social security trust fund. and yet this republican congress seems to be completely ignoring that issue. instead we're now doubling down on the impacts of the first tax scam in order to mark up bills that will cost the government $3 trillion, further jeopardizing these critical programs. i

larson's amendment which would get security and stability by the social security and medicare trust funds before this bill could be enacted. reckless republican policies have endangered the welfare of our seniors by completing the medicare trust fund inn order to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. while the rich get richer, republicans have decided that it seniors who must foot the bill. the republican budget released this summer would cut $500 billion for the medicare program purchase one of the many programs that would suffer in order to pay for the $2.3 trillion tax cut. while president trump is saying it is making medicare and social security stronger, the reality is public and policies in the first tax scam has drained three years in the life of the medicare trust fund and one year of life from the social security trust fund. and yet, this republican congress seems to be completely ignoring that issue. instead, we are now doubling down on the impacts of the first tax and to mark a bill that will cost the government $3 trillion further jeopardizing these critical programs. in addition

bill passed the house, they did not let up. they were 100% committed to this legislation, and i cannot thank them enough for everything they have done. brendan b. lare and sally rose larson have been absolutely outstanding. the other house colleague i need to recognize is my good friend bob goodlatte, the chairman of the house judiciary committee. like myself, bob is retiring this year. he's been a wonderful chairman. i've had the privilege of working with him on a number of initiatives that have become law, a whole raft of them. i'm so glad to have had the opportunity to work with him on this legislation before we leave office and am so pleased to share my name with his on the bill. i'd also like to give a special shoutout to his chief council for intellectual property joe keely who played a crucial role in shepherding this bill through the house. i need to turn to industry stakeholders who came together to make the compromises that made this bill possible and who did a superb job of educating congress on the need for this bill and how it's going to make a difference for songwriters and musicians. first our nashville songwriters association international and songwriters