mr. burchett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for five minutes. mr. rchett: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. speaker, i want to thank my very good friend, steve cohen, from memphis, tennessee. the home of al green. and we had a lot of good times in the state senate. we brought some famous people to the floor, our dear friend steve crawford, in the rock 'n roll hall of fame. some of his guitars are in thing smithsonian -- are in the smithsonian. many others. isaac hayes. we sang the theme from "shaft" on the senate floor. i'm sure someone will dig for that and hopefully that's been erased from history. when we brought isaac hays, i -- hey, i almost forgot about -- hayes, i almost forgot about him. we had a great relationship with those folks and people often ask me why i'm friends with congressman cohen. he's probably my oldest friend up here, truth be known. he's correct, we did sponsor a bill to raise the speed limit. i think i asked for 85. knowing we'd take 07 in the house -- 70 in the house. the week prior to that i'd brought peyton manning to the hous

mr. burchett, mr. burchett, if i can grab you, we're we're live on the air. he's he's busy talking to to other of our colleagues. but thanks for talking to me. you were involved in a lot of these discussions on the floor of the house. what was that like? it seemed pretty tense at times. it did. >> but, you know, i've been through this before, and there was any reono get in anybody's face. i saw a member that had that had passed or voted the other way, and some people were getting in their face, and that that always to me, just you're going to push somebody further away. and so i mentioned, just wait, someone just got in someone's face, you know, how they do on the floor. you know, they raised their voice. and people are tensions are tight and and i mentioned to the speaker that it might be a good idea to to break off with them individually. and that's and i think that's what he did. >> i mean, did he resist that idea? because for some time he was saying he was not going to cut deals with these members. >> i didn't cut a deal that he didn't do that at all. he

mr. burchett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized. mr. burchett: thank you, mr. speaker. chairman, thank you. mr. roy, for bringing this important piece of legislation to us. let's be clear, h.r. 23 is very clear. the international criminal court, i.c.c., they don't believe israel has the right to defend itself from terrorists or those that threaten to destroy israel's way of life. the united states and israel are not members of the i.c.c. for good reason. and without accident. mr. speaker, it's a dadgum sham court is what it is. these decisions by the i.c.c. are reckless. they not only put israel at risk. they put americans at risk as well. the united states with our new congress and new administration is not going to put up with these international organ organizations putting us and our alleys in harm's way. hamas chose war. and dadgum it, hamas got war. the i.c.c. prosecutor has made a parity of justice. it needs to find his place or we will help him find it. i know when i get back to the office i'll get text or contact from people sayi

mr. burchett was here saying they had gaveled that vote. there was going to be a second vote. as it turned out, they changed their votes at the end, which means that johnson does get to say he did this on the first ballot, and he clearly was also, i think, trying to demonstrate strength by going to the floor without cutting these deals. right, saying this is what how i'm going to do it. ultimately, he had to with that kind of show of force from these people that could ultimately strip him. >> and the question right now that i have that i'm trying to get that i know our terrific team on the hill is trying to get is what happened in that room. >> yeah. i mean, that will be the next part of this story is what what did they get? how did their votes change. but listen. yes, these nine sort of put mike johnson on this. mike johnson didn't need notice. he seized the math of what his majority is the slimmest in 100 years. so he understands the the problematic path he has ahead to get trump's legislative agenda through in a clean way. in this first year of full republican control in wa

mr. burchett: i rise to honor the life of a dear friend of mine who passed away at the aim of 81. she was a former knox county juvenile court clerk, an office she held for 18 years. she served with great integrity and pride and was truly a public servant as she was one of the people. lillian was a great leader in the republican party in knox county, so much so she earned the nickname, and she really did earn this name, the bean machine. lillian also had a bean soup recipe she would can and give out to folk she is cared about. i was the resippet yent of that and my family was many times. she served as pest of knoxville women's club and was woman of the year three times for her volunteer spirit. if someone's name was in the paper, lillian would clip it and send it to that person. i was fortunate enough to receive that many times. just to let them know she'd read about she always had little ways to show people they cared and they felt it. lillian was a proud baptist and i have no doubt that the lord welcomed her with open arm a smile on his face. she'll truly be missed. i think the f