paul d. ryan. through all of it the man from janesville never forgets where he came from and who he works for. he insists on calling his constituents his employers. he insists on all of us calling him paul. make no mistake, today and every day we're honored to call himr. speaker. as chair of the republican conference i'm directed by the vote of that conference to present for election to the office of speaker of the house of representatives for the 115th congress, the name of the honorable paul d. ryan, a representative elect from the tate of wisconsin. the clerk of the house: the clerk now recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. crowley. mr. crowley: thank you, madam clerk. first i would like to welcome back the gentlelady from washington state, mrs. mcmorris rodgers, and her family. as well as welcome all of our colleagues and their families to this new session of congress. madam clerk, as chair of the house democratic caucus, i have the honor of nominating the gentlelady from california

paul d. ryan. through all of it the man from janesville never forgets where he came from and who he works for. he insists on calling his constituents his employers. he insists on all of us calling him paul. make no mistake, today and every day we're honored to call him mr. speaker. as chair of the republican conference i'm directed by the vote of that conference to present for election to the office of speaker of the house of representatives for the 115th congress, the name of the honorable paul d. ryan, a representative elect from the tate of wisconsin. the clerk of the house: the clerk now recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. crowley. mr. crowley: thank you, madam clerk. first i would like to welcome back the gentlelady from washington state, mrs. mcmorris rodgers, and her family. as well as welcome all of our colleagues and their families to this new session of congress. madam clerk, as chair of the house democratic caucus, i have the honor of nominating the gentlelady from californ

signed sincerely, paul d. ryan speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following communication. the clerk: the speaker'ses rooms, washington dd, january 3, 2017 i appoint general denham, max thornberry and fred upton and andy harris and barbara comstock and representative messer to sign enrolled bills through the remainder of the 115th congress signed sincerely paul d. ryan speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. he names are approved. the chair lays before the house the following communication. the clerk: the honorable, the speaker, house of representatives, sir, under clause 2-g of rule 2 of the u.s. house of representatives, i herewith mr. robert reed deputy clerk and legal counsel to sign any and all papers and do all other acts under the name of the clerk of the house which they would be authorized to do by virtue of this designation except such as provided by statute in case much any temporary absence or disability. this shall remain in effect for the 115th congress or author

schumer, speaks of the house of the represents, paul d. ryan, >> yes, they've had to do this twice. they're escorting people and then they get introduced. you'll get to hear from a couple of them before the oath. >> michael, is there anything magical about the time? we talk about noon, the swearing of the oath. constitutionally? >> it's the moment that goes all the way back. and an interesting thing is how hard a moment that is because in 1981 when jimmy carter was the outgoing president, as you know, he was trying to get american hostages released from iran. and at 12:0 1, one of the aides

and i write a whole chapter on toni morrison's novel beloved in which one of the main characters, paul ds put on the chain gang. and he's put into this kind of tomb-like structure, and she taking her artistic license actually puts the cage underground. but in reality the cages that that scene was based on were movable and mobile. and the reason why they were movable and mobile was that these neo-slaves, as i call them in the book, or prison slaves were at work building the entire southern infrastructure that had been really decimated with the civil war, but also trying to move the south into the new south paradigm of an industrializing more in the northern image of an industrial kind of formation. and so the railroads, the highways, turpentining, mining, all of these new industries were largely made up of workers, per se, that were actually prison slaves. and the chain gang system was mostly for people who had, who were convicted of misdemeanors, sometimes who couldn't pay a fine. so literally what was criminalized was your poverty, landlessness and dispossession. but it was very much a

that paul d. irving of the state of florida be and is hereby chosen sergeant at arms of the house of representatives. that phillip george kiko of the state of ohio be and is hereby chosen chief administrative ofcer of the hou of representatives. and that father patrick j. conr of the state of oregon be and is hereby chosen chaplain of the house of representatives. the speaker: the gentlewoman from washington is recognized. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: mr. speaker, i yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. crowley, for the purpose of offering an amendment. the speaker: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. crowley: i thank the gentlelady. mr. speaker, i have an amendment to the resolution. before i offer this amendment i ask that there be a division of the question on the resolution so that we may have a separate vote on the chaplan of the house -- chap livent house. the speaker: the question is on agreeing to that portion of the resolution providing for the election of a chaplain. so many as

signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the house -- pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority le

signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair now will recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue to pass 11:50 a.m. each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from -- chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. williams, for five minutes. mr. williams: mr. speaker, last november the american people spoke loud and clear about wanting real change in washington. the american people want washington to work for them. no more empty promises, no more talk. mr. speaker, the american people want their government to act and congress' time to act is now. i come here today to offer a solution to an issue that has been discussed but not truly acted

schumer, the speaker of the house of representatives, paul d.ate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, house majority leader, kevin mccarthy, and house democratic leader, nancy pelosi. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect of the united states, donald john trump. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint congressional committee for inaugural ceremonies, the honorable roy blunt. senator blunt: thank you-all. if you have a seat, you can sit down. mr. president, mr. vice president, mr. president-elect, mr. vice president-elect, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states f america. today the legislative, executive, the judicial branches of our constitutional government come together for the 58th inauguration of the president of the united states. millions of people all over the world will watch and will listen to this event. 36 years ago in his first inauguration, it was also the first inauguration on this side of the capitol, president ronald reagan said that what we o here is

the speaker of the house, paul d ryan. kevin mccartney and democratic house leader nancy pelosi. [trumpets playing. [trumpets playing] ♪ >> announcer: ladies and gentle man, the president-elect of the united states, donald john trump. [band playing] ♪ >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint inaugural committee, the honorable roy blunt. >> thank you all. if you have a seat, you can. sit down. mr. president, mr. vice president, mr. president-elect, mr. vice president-elect. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states of america. [cheering and applauding] today, the legislature, the judicial branches of our government come together for the 58th inauguration of the president of the united states. millions of people will watch and listen to this event. 36 years ago at his first inauguration was also the first inauguration on this side of the capital, president ronald reagan said what we do here is both commonplace and miraculous. commonplace, every four years since 1789 when president george washington took this ex

the speaker of the house, paul d ryan. kevin mccartney and democratic house leader nancy pelosi. [trumpets playing. [trumpets playing] ♪ >> announcer: ladies and gentle man, the president-elect of the united states, donald john trump. [band playing] ♪ >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint inaugural committee, the honorable roy blunt. >> thank you all. if you have a seat, you can. sit down. mr. president, mr. vice president, mr. president-elect, mr. vice president-elect. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states of america. [cheering and applauding] today, the legislature, the judicial branches of our government come together for the 58th inauguration of the president of the united states. millions of people will watch and listen to this event. 36 years ago at his first inauguration was also the first inauguration on this side of the capital, president ronald reagan said what we do here is both commonplace and miraculous. commonplace, every four years since 1789 when president george washington took this ex

signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allotted between the parties and in no event shall the debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from alabama, ms. sewell. for five minutes. ms. sewell: mr. speaker, i rise to speak on the affordable care ct and the trim's efforts to repeal -- the trump administration's efforts to repeal the health care of millions of americans. every person in this body has constituents who have health insurance because of the affordable care act. whether you represent the rural community in kentucky where the uninsured rate declined 60% under the a.c.a., or you represent the mo

signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the house -- pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip and in o five minutes no event shall debate continue eyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. costello, for five minutes. mr. costello: mr. speaker, when we came back from break starting 2017, i wanted to share some thoughts on how we can improve ourselves and our country here in 2017 but last week there was such a flurry of activity i didn't have the opportunity to do so. i came across an editorial in the reding eagle, a newspaper with circulation in my district, harry dietz, the editor of the reding eagle had an editorial called 17 simple ways to improve t

so i think it will be interesting to see how the paul d on foreign policy, which was barely mentioned today, that cloud of russia is hanging over this administration from the early days. >> rose: he didn't speak to russia at all. >> he didn't speak to any foreign policy other than the bleak reference we enrich other countries and i assume he was talking about china. >> rose: let's talk at what we saw. there were all these people including hillary clinton on the podium. he did not mention her. i assume that he might do that. that has been often what pays some sense of someone for making a good fight. >> i think one thing that people miss -- you mentioned reagan and bush's speech, if you talk to obama's people, about half, not all of them, there was some regret at his address eight years ago that he was seen as a bit ungracious of george w. bush, partly because he painted a bleak picture of george w. bush's america, the economic crisis. it was a much more political speech than obama himself i think would have an instinct to do. what is interesting about a speech like this, if you are ve

signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, for five minutes. mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. recently in sacramento, california, uber driver keith aviellea picked up two passengers, they were two women and what looked like to be a very young girl about 12 years of age. the ride would be short. the total fare was only $8. the young girl sitting in the front seat with him was dressed inappropriately in such a short skirt. here's what he said about her. you could see all of her legs and it struck me as o

therefore, the honorable paul d. the state of wisconsin, having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives for the 115th congress. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> and there you have it. paul ryan officially the speaker of the house of representatives once again. not much of a surprise there, picking up 239 of the 435 members -- picking up those votes there in the lower chamber. we expect to hear from paul ryan next hour. meanwhile, back here, faced with a threat from north korea about its intercontinental ballistic missiles president-elect trump took to twitter. north korea just stated that it is in the final stages of develop agnew clear weapon capable of reaching parts of the u.s. it won't happen. i'm joined now by gordon chang. let's just start with where the president-elect left off. it won't happen. is that true? >> it probably will happen. kellyanne conway said this was putting north korea on notice. but they are not going to take that it way. they will take it a

. >> the honorable paul d.n of the state of wisconsin having received majority of the votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. >> reporter: gop's reversal on the ethics move to be a sign of trouble ahead for paul ryan who is re-elected to the house speaker ship but now must bridge the gap between pushing through president-elect trump's agenda while keeping more traditional republicans on board. >> for all of our arguments and all of our differences, we are all united by a deep abiding love of our country. >> reporter: 2017 marks the first time in a decade the gop will control both chambers of congress as well as the white house. in the senate republican leaders are hoping to confirm as many of president-elect's trump cabinet picks as they can before he officially takes office january 20th despite having a narrow majority of 52 to 48. >> we will hold president-elect trump accountable to the values that truly make america great. >> reporter: president-elect trump announcing today he int

there's no one better to lead the people's house in that calling than paul d. ryan. through all of it the man from james ville never forgets who he works for. he insists on calling his constituents his employers. he insists on all of us calling him paul. make no mistake, today and every day we are honored to call him mr. speaker. >> that's cathy mcmorris rogers, a member of the house leadership team. republican from washington state. the highest ranking who am in the republican leadership, nominating her friend, paul ryan, for speaker of the says house. democrats will nominate nancy pelosi, but we fully kmp paul ryan will be reelected. a quick break. inside politics will continue in just a moment. the big day here opening day for the 115th congress. the house and the senate both controlled by republicans. president-elect trump 17 days away from becoming president. stay with us. see me. see me. don't stare at me. see me. see me. see me to know that psoriasis is just something that i have. i'm not contagious. see me to know that... ...i won't stop until i find what work

signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let

signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limit -- shall be limited to five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. quigley, for five minutes. mr. quigley: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, a strong, safe, reliable, and efeshent infrastructure system is vital for robust and sustained economic growth. comprehensive infrastructure reform is all inclusive and requires an ongoing investment by the federal government in not just our roads and bridges, but in all vital systems that support our way of life. currently the united states needs around $3.6 trillion in infras

speaker of the house of representatives, paul d. ryan. senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. and house democratic leader nancy pelosi. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect of the united states, donald john trump. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint congressional committee for inaugural ceremonies the honorable roy blount. >> thank you, all. if you have a seat, you can sit down. mr. president, mr. vice president, mr. president-elect, mr. vice president-elect, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] today the lenltaenlgs lative, executive and judicial branches come together for the 58th inauguration of the president of the united states. millions of people all over the world will watch and will listen to this event. 36 years ago in his first inaugurati inauguration, also the first inauguration on this side of the capital, president ronald reagan said that what we do here is both commonplace a

signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives.he speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for

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ceremonies, roy blunt rules committee ranking member and senate democratic leader charlie schumer, paul dn, mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy and nancy pelosi. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect of the united states, donald john trump. [applause] ♪ [applause] ♪ [applause] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint congressional committee for inaugural sermon is, the honorable that's ceremonies, the honorable -- inaugural ceremonies, the honorable roy blunt. presisident, mr. vice preresident, mr. president-elect and mrmr. vice president-elect, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states of americaca. [applause] royy blunt: today, the executive, legislative and jujudicial braranches come toger for the 5050th inauguration does 45th inauguguration ofof the president of u united states. millions of people will watch and listen to this event. 36 years agogo in his first inauguration, it was also the first inauguration on the side of the capital, president ronald reagan said that what we do here is both commonplace

i'm like, oh, no, believe it or not, i dpaef thgave that five d but paul ryan is doing a good job. >> us, rick tyler, a very good morning to you. thank you for joining us. >> reporter: good morning. >> let's look at the poll numbers here. they show donald trump is pretty much the least popular president-elect in recent history. so wt do you think his mandate is to serve when he first takes office? and what should he get done immediately to try to reverse that public opinion? >> reporter: well, what he can't do is reverse what he promised to do and that is change. donald trump has had an extraordinary year. he accomplished not just being the president of the united states, but coming from the business background, that's never been done before, defeating 17 republican candidates, 16 republican candidates and hillary clinton. people put her here and they want change. this city does not want change and runs to its own rhythm. the city will either consume him or he will consume it. but i think donald trump uniquely is positioned to be a very transformative president. he does have the will

forgotten no longer remind me of something that speaker paul ryan said when donald trump went out to visit him after he had been elected and came to dwas democrats, too reagan democrats who thought they had been forgotten, he did speak to that. fet it was a very different inaugural address. ri was missing the soaring rhetoric. we've been listening to probably one of the greatest oraterrs of but words like crime, drugs, gangs are new for inaugural address. it felt more like a campaign speech than an inaugural address. but that's the change. ngat's the marked change. his advisors have also said that we're going to witness some very dramatic change in just the first two weeks they have planned every single day of policy action in order to signal that they mean business. that they're going to try to deliver on this skyscraper of promises that trump talked about all throughout the campaign. >> pelley: one wonders, norah, whether the foundation that have skyscraper will be undermined by the president's own party, what do you think his prospects are with his own party, many of the things he talked about today are antithetical to dogma. ref

the speaker of the house of representatives, paul d. ryan. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell.pplause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect of the united states, donald john trump. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint congressional committee for inaugural ceremonies, the honorable roy blunt. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you l. you have a seat, you can sit down. mr. president, mr. vice president, mr. president-elect, mr. vice president-elect, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states of america. [ cheers and applause ] today the legislative, the executive, the judicial branches of our constitutional government come together for the 58th inauguration of the president of the united states. millions of people all over the world will watch and will listen to this event. 36 years ago, in his first inauguration, it was also the first inauguration on this side of the capitol, president ronald reagan said that what we do here is both commonplace and

schumer, the speaker of the house of representatives paul d.enate majority leader mitch mcconnell, house majority leader kenneth mccarthy and nancy pelosi. [ applause ] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect of the united states, donald john trump. [ applause ] ♪ [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint congressional committee for inaugural ceremonies, the honorable roy blunt. >> thank you all. if you have a seat, you can sit down. mr. president, mr. vice president, mr. president-elect, mr. vice president-elect, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states of america. [ applause ] today the legislative, executive, judicial branchs of our constitutional government come together for the 58th inauguration of the president of the united states. millions of people all over the world will watch and will listen to this event. 36 years ago, in his first inauguration, it was also the first inauguration on this side of the capitol, president ronald reagan said that what we do her

schumer, speaks of the house of the represents, paul d.ch mcconnell, george mccarthy and nancy pelosi. >> yes, they've had to do this twice. they're escorting people and then they get introduced. you'll get to hear from a couple of them before the oath. >> michael, is there anything magical about the time? we talk about noon, the swearing of the oath. constitutionally? >> it's the moment that goes all the way back. and an interesting thing is how hard a moment that is because in 1981 when jimmy carter was the outgoing president, as you know, he was trying to get american hostages released from iran. and at 12:0 1, one of the aides called the situation room to ask for a report and they said, i'm sorry, you're no longer cleared for information. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect of the united states, donald john trump. ♪ >> can we officially say that's a trademark thing with him, the thumbs up. that's his version of a wave. a signature. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint congressional committee for inaugural

rules ranking member charles schumer, the speaker of the house of representative, paul d ryan, senateh mcconnell, house majority leader, kevin mccarthy, and how's democratic leader, nancy pelosi. [applauding] ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect of the united states, donald john trump. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪ [applauding] ♪ [cheering and applauding] >> ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the joint congressional committee for inaugural ceremonies, the honorable roy blount. >> thank you, all, if you have a seat, you can sit down. mr. president, mr. vice president, mr. president-elect, mr. vice president-elect, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the inauguration of the 45th president of the united states of america. [cheering and applauding] today, the legislative, the executive, the judicial branches of our constitutional government come together for the 58th inauguration of the president of the united states. millions of people all over the world will watch and will listen to this event. 36 years ago at his first inauguration, it was also the first inauguration on this

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