Of sexual misconduct. Congressman announced he is rooir retiring at the end of the term and speaker ryan said it is the right decision. This is ten minutes. The tax cut and jobs act, it is about making jobs, growing this economy. It is about middle class income going higher. This is about giving the people the ability to make ends meet. Im so excited we are on the cusp of this great accomplish. And if Congress Acts by christmas people will see gains very soon. As the president announced yesterday, if tax reform taxpayers will see more money in their paychecks beginning in february. With holding tables will reflect that. The irs is already taking steps to prepare new with holding tables for 2018 based upon this legislation. This tax cut will mean less of a paycheck going to washington, and more to the hard working person who earned it. Again, that is the whole purpose of this bill. Bigger paychecks for the people working hard to provide for think families. This is real relief. In addition to the course this relief gives people a simpler system and a fair tax code. That is what this accomplishes. Second, the Appropriations Committee has introduced a continuing resolution that addresses Critical National priorities. As you know, the peoples house here passed all 12 appropriation bills on time and ahead of the fiscal year deadline. It is remains our goal to see all 12 become law. At a time when we face threats around the globe we believe it is vitally important to fund our national defense. We want to make sure the resources are in place to rebuild our military. As you know this is one of the High Priorities of this term to rebuild our military, this bill does that and were working to extend the Childrens Health insurance program. Last month, november 3rd the house passed a fully funded extension to protect the 9 million children covered under chip. Under hr 3922, the champion b healthy kids act and an overwhelming majority of House Democrats voted against that extension of chip funding. Care for children in need should always, go beyond party lines so i hope both parties will come together to make sure that we extend the chip funding now. Questions. Mr. Speaker, Congress Blake farenthold said he wont run for reelection next year. Do you think he should step down now . I had a couple of conversations with Blake Farenthold yesterday, i think he is making the right decision to retire. These this are now stories very disconcerting. Unacceptable behavior is a alleged and think hes made the right decision that hes leaving congress and that is reflected on the conversations we had. Just to follow up on mr. Farenthold, after he had settled his lawsuit, he brought in a continue this is reported an outside and helped find him that outside investigator. Im wondering do you know how much taxpayer money this is the first ive even heard that. Do you think thaticide be made public . Hes under ethics investigation right now. So i would refer you to susan brooks about the nature of that investigation. And what the Ethics Committee typically does is they dont report where they are but hes under an ethics investigation right now as he should be. Members of congress have slept in their offices. You have slept in your office. They show this as a sign of physical fru galt. More of a convenience thing but yeah. People prowling in their skivies. Is this a time and place and would you set the example . I dont see the point. We sleep in our offices because we work until about midnight and get up early, early in the morning. Its actually a convenience factor. We dont see our staffs. I never see my staff. I go from the capitol to the office. So its not that were seeing our staff in the evening when were sleeping in our offices. Its simply a factor of convenience and that to me make as lot of sense because i live in wisconsin. I dont live here in washington d. C. If im not here vetting and working, im at home with my family and constituents. I dont see how its connected to anything else. Let me go to kristen. Do you anticipate being able to reach a budget cap deal before you leave this month . I dont know the answer to that question. When the democrats pulled out of these talks, that cost us weeks. It would be my preference to get an agreement sooner rather than later. The approp reators seem to be really close coming together on a supplement tool provide aid to puerto rico and texas. And louisiana and other places. Do you anticipate a vote on that . I do. Our members very much want to see an agreement on a disaster supplemental before we leave. So thats something were working towards. Thank you, for speaker. There seems to be some discussion underway as to which chamber would go first on tax reform. I dont know the answer to that question. There is discussion about this. Its are about timing and managing absences in the senate. So were basically being flexible for the majority leader. Ive taked to mitch a couple of time s about this. How concerned are you about senator mccain and the health of senator mccain . Ill refer you to senator oconnell. I dont know if you have your post card with you. No, ive got a memo and appropriations in my pocket. Is it the tax card they will use to file their taxes come april 15th and considering april 15th is for the last year. And then considering the nature of the changes in the bill, do you envision any portions of it delaying taking effect. Any of them not taking effect ib2018. Oh, sure. People have covered tax bills, andy knows this stuff. Kwoul rr see lots of different dates in this tax bill. For instance depreciation schedules will be effective september sorry. I get a kick out of that. Youll see appreciation schedules go in effect i think september 17th, 2017. Because thats when we announced the full dispensing schedule. What we didnt want to do was stop investments from occurring. There will be 2017 dates, 2018 dates, later dates. Thats the way tax laws work. Mr. Speaker, were you awared of the socalled hush fund to setthal harassments . Its not a fund by the way. I didnt know about it. Weve are learned quite bit more. Its not like a fund set aside. Its just when claims get made, claims get paid. Some get the anthrax. I was out a month. We were out at the gao. So there were anthrax claims, asbestose claims. There are lots of different kinds of claims that occur and payments get made but we did not know the nature of this before hand. Two questions f you dont mind. Yeah, dynamic questioning. On tax. We know the polling has shown its not particularly popular and even among Republican Voters theres some skepticism. What do you think is the reason for that and do you think it will change . And secondly, i was wondering if you could look ahead briefly. I know you talked about intietaliment reforms. Conservatives say there will be discussion part of our agenda. So first off. If you look at the polling that was done in Ronald Regans signature 1986 tax reform, 18 of the people polled thought they were going to benefit from it. So this is the nature of the debate on things this big like tax reform. Youve got spin might sayers out there confusing the public and thats what i think is happening with tax rieform. What comforts me greatly is the fact that the results are going to produce fantastic results that will improve the lives of hard working taxpayers in this country. Im convinced this is going to launch more investment in businesses and in workers. Im convinced this is going to give bigger paychecks a simpler system. Just doubling the standard deduction means 9 out of 10 people can fill out taxes on a post card. So the results are going to be what sells this bill, not the confusion before it passes. On entitlement reform, ive long said there are two things youve got to do to get this debt under control. Renorm entitlement programs, grow the economy. We had had three reconciliation packages prepared for this congress. The first one didnt pass the senate. The second one, which were in right now, was about doing tax reform. Were on the cusp of delivering that. Next year is back to very important entitlement reforms and one that we see that is necessary is get us out of this poverty trap. Were actually trapping people in poverty, disincent vising work. You know who basically pays the biggest tax rate . Its the single mom who will lose 80 cents on the dollar if she takes a job. That is a problem. We are trapping people in lives of dependency and poverty and theyre making rational decisions. So are lets fix that. Lets change our well fare laws so we push and pull people out of poverty into the work force and the great thing is were going to be able to create the kind of economy that creates good family supporting jobs, higher wages there for people stuck in poverty and well fare to go. Next year is the year we work on people. Next year we work on getting people where they need to be in life. Closing the skills gap. If you take a look at the economy i know im ripping here but i feel very sfrautrong about. There are three things were trying to do. Fix the regulatory problem. Its a massive hidden cost to doing business. Were making great progress on that. Reform the tax code so we can get faster economic growth, bigger paychecks. Were in the middle of doing that. People. This is gefweeg the new economic challenge for america. People. Baby boomers are retiring. I did my part but we need to have higher birth rates in this country. We have fewer people in the work force. We have Something Like a 90 increase in the population in america butted only a 19 increase in the working population in america. We have to be smarter, more efficient, more technology, still going to need more people and we have 10s of millions right here in this country not working, not looking for a job or not in School Getting a skill to get a job, thats a problem. So thats why we need tackle these things. Next year we want to take on criminal justice reform, skills. Getting people the skills they need to get the jobs they want. Career in Technical Education and reform. So those are the kind of reforms were talk about. The last thing ill say is obamacare is collapsing and failing. So we wont be able to ignore that problem. Were going to have to reviz at Health Care Market place that is collapsing and thats something were going to have to get on to. Theyll