moxley, jason botel o, and on the house staff, andy elias, leah beardsley, chris carpenter and anthony keleherank you for all your hard work. i'd also like to thank our event planners. if you didn't notice this dinner is different this year. we have a new production team and i'd like to thank phillip patricia nate and katie for all of their hard work putting tonight's great event together. thank you to my wife, sally, for her patience and support in planning tonight's event. i'd like to offer a toast for the 115th congress. the radio and television correspondents association has 450,000 organizations credentialed to cover congress. none of them are fake news. here's a toast to all of our broadcasters who keep our government accountable. cheers. house speaker paul ryan currently serves as the country's 54th speaker of the house and was a 2012 republican vice presidential nominee. when i told him i'm from berra bue, wisconsin, he says he knows three things about barra bue. he knows about the international crane foundation and he's been to circus world museum where i picked up valuable life skill