we are expecting him to talk about the 2018 budget resolution which was just approved in the house. it sets the stage for the republican tax plan to go forward without being subjected to the filibuster in the senate. last night here in washington, house speaker ryan addressed the annual dinner of the radio and television correspondent's association. we'll show you as much of that as we can next here on c-span 3. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. our program will begin shortly. >> announcer: please stand to honor america. ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave? ♪ [ applause ]. >> announcer: ladies and gentlemen, the 2017 radio and television congressional correspondents dinner chairman, abc news's john parkinson. >> let's give it up for ali rogan one more time. distinguished guests, speak egg ryan, welcome to the 73rd annual radio and television congressional correspondent's dinner. we've got a terrific evening planned for tonight. roy wood jr. is here. bobby bones is here. thank you all for joining me here at the national building museum. starting on my right with olga ramirez, the director of gallery. drew hamill. abgale robertson. bobby boenes is here. on my left, craig kaplan, the current chairman of the executive committee and next year's dinner chairman. walt cronkite, the vice chair, the 2019 dinner chair. matt house, communications director for the senate democratic leader, chuck schumer. paul corsin. miriam kahn. thank you all for being here tonight. each year we have olga and mike at the head table, but it's really their staffs to which we truly owe our deep appreciation. thank you for everything you do, for all of your hard work on the political conventions and the inauguration and every news event in between. i'd also like to thank our event planners. if you guys didn't notice, this dinner is different this year, right? we've got a new production team. 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 correspondent's association has 457 member organizations among about 3700 broadcasters credentialed to cover congress. none of them are fake news. so here's a toast in appreciation to the 115th congress but especially 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. his former chief of staff is from wisconsin. he knows about the international crane foundation and he's been to circus world museum where i've picked up valuable life skills like this one. so i thought about juggling some fire tonight, but apparently there's a fire code that doesn't apply to your tables and all the candles. we're thrilled, though, to have my fellow wisconsinite and co-owner of the green bay packers, the republican ring master himself, house speaker paul ryan. [ applause ]. >> evening. how y'all doing? good. john, thanks for having me. by the way, i know who bobby bones is. bobby bones. nice to meet you kind of sort of in person. first of all, i want to thank the executive board of the radio tv correspondent's association and i want to on behalf of the people i work with, i want to thank olga and her team out at the house radio tv gallery. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, tonight i have prepared my remarks in a way that will forever revolutionize the way that you hear speeches. it's going to be organized in a stream of bullet points. they tell me that was an axios joke. brandon bunk swore to me that was going to be a funny joke. i wasn't so sure. thank you for proving me right. look, some of you may be wondering why i came here so soon after my star turn at the al smith dinner. never too early for a speaker to work on his next gig, plus i had a whole bunch of leftover dad jokes. this may surprise you. but after that dinner where i spent about a third of the time riffing on the president, he gave me a call the next morning, pretty early on and he actually really liked the speech. he actually told me that he watched it on tv and he thought it was great. i thought it was really weird. the president watches tv? so this dinner, the rtca dinner, the first dinner was 73 years ago. you know, you ought to hear the stories that hoyer and pelosi go on about that first night. it was incredible. look, i shouldn't riff like that, because chuck and nancy are not here this evening. apparently it's bingo night at the white house tonight. look i understand adam schiff couldn't be here as well. can't blame the guy. that guy's got a really big job. you think those 5-7 minute hits on msnbc are going to do themselves? i've got to admit here. i'm looking around here and i see really well dressed people. they told me this thing was black tie. which i've got to tell you, i thought you guys were all about relaxing the dress code. that was something, wasn't it, those of you in the radio and tv gallery? i thought the practice of speakers commenting on people's attire left when john boehner left the speakership. when i take a look at this, i think about president trump and how he told us that we weren't going to stop winning and we'd get so tired of winning. we still have a little bit of progress to make on that front. unless of course you are john boehner. speaking of getting dressed up, i've got to tell you halloween is coming this week. i was going to go as something new. i was going to be this new media maven, a guy named anthony scaramucci. i'm going to go to halloween torks t, to the old reliable. i'm going to go as eddie munster. i'm sorry i can't stay for dinner. i've got a lot to do. thursday mornings, it's yoga mornings for me. i've got to get going to yoga. that really helps me get through the day. my mantra in yoga is tax reform, tax reform, tax reform. nevertheless, i wanted to come by. the reason i wanted to come by is i have seen your latest approval rates aings and i want tell you keep your heads up. as low as they are, it could be a whole lot worse. they could be my approval ra ratin ratings. but i'm sure you don't want to take advice from a politician. i do have one piece. luke russert, wherever you are, maybe take just a little more time. by the way, on the way over here i was going through all the president's tweets. just kidding. i actually don't read those things. but some of the things i don't like talking about, like aaron rodgers' injury. the president called me right after that as well. and he was very, very thoughtful. he offered to send me jared kushner to start for the packers in his place. i've got to tell you, the president is -- he offers a lot of ideas. we talk all the time. he calls me up with a lot of different ideas. let me give you one example. he keeps telling me these jobs are like reality tv. being speaker of the house is just like reality tv. you've got shark tank, man versus wild, swamp people, survival. and of course you've got the biggest loser. that's the president's favorite one. but i know this year i there were some big issues with media access at the capitol. i want to get serious for a moment. like all that rope expansion stuff over in the senate. i know you have thinking it was going to be an adult daycare center or something like that, but sometimes these things just go a little too far, like we believe in having open access but sometimes you've just got to watch the limits. like last week, i'm in my office, i'm talking with my staff and there's chad outside washing my window. i think we even have a photo of it. [ laughter ]. >> dude, you know, give me a break. then i go down pennsylvania avenue. i go get a haircut and apparently phil mattingly moonlights as a barber. i know things are a little rough at cnn, but geez. this is the one that gets me. how the heck did nora and charlie and gale get into my damn yoga class. even hunting. casey it is just really not that safe. so we all need to be proud in the capitol that we set the standard for media access. i just want to tell you on an actual serious note. we are proud that we do set the tone and the tempo for media access in the capitol. we need to strive to keep it that way. as we do, there are a few actual serious thoughts i'd like to leave with you. one of the things you've heard me talk about and those of you who are on the capitol beat s we need to improve our political discourse. too many of us in this job, we think we're all infallible. we think that we always, always, always have it right. i'm the first to admit we are not perfect. we do not always get it right. that fact has been well checked and well reported. but even in this room i think we can admit that the media sometimes gets it wrong from time to time. and there are times when we actually disagree on what is right and what is fair. a little more humility from all of us, a little more listening could help as well. more than anything, we are here to challenge each other. that push and that pull, that makes our system stronger. this makes our system more resilient. this is a feature. it's not a bug. so challenging one another does not mean we have to give each other license to impugn each other's motives. we don't have to be so obsessed with keeping score. this happens all the time. it doesn't have to be so adversarial. things will never exactly be tranquil. i recognize that. you know when a former senate historian tried to definitively trace problems between the politicians and the press, he says he stopped when he got to the first doccongress. the point is this, this relationship, it's crucial. this relationship will endure. the institutions will endure. we have a very messy system. but this messy system of government is the best possible system. and this messy system of government completely relies on a free and open press. [ applause ]. >> our founders understood this and this too will endure. our republican does not work without what you do. and beneath all of this scar tissue, beneath all of this assumed cynicism which we have at a high level these days, we all do share a common humanity. we all need to make our vibrant public square something where disagreements are emphasized but not exploited. we need to make sure that our ideas are debated in full, free, open debate, but not just in our echo chambers. we need to make sure that the values that we uphold are strong enough to get us through any stormy moment. so the invitation i want to give to you on behalf of us is put the pen down and let's just stop spinning and let's just stop playing gotcha and let's just get to know each other just a little bit more. and let's just work at remembering each of us have important jobs to do. we have important roles to play. each of us are human beings. and just that little acknowledge, i think, can do a lot to help us improve the discourse that we have and the mutual respect we have for each and every one of each other. [ applause ]. >> that's basically what i want to say, is we have a phenomenal country with beautiful principles and we are living examples of people who are carrying autothecarry ing out these principles. we have to have the confidence in them. we have to believe in one another. and when we do this, we will make this country a better place and this system that is so crucial will endure. thank you very much for having me, everybody, tonight. really appreciate it. have a great evening. appreciate it. [ applause ]. >> thank you, mr. speaker. serving tonight as guest master of ceremonies is bobby bones. the bobby bones show is heard on more than 100 stations nationwide, totaling more than 5 million viewers per week. he's a "new york times" best selling author, a standup comedian and he's the youngest member inducted into the national radio hall of fame. please welcome bobby bones. [ applause ]. >> my favorite part about the introduction is this entire table turned their backs as soon as they said my name. wolf blitzer is sitting right there. wolf, i've been tweeting you for like two years. how many winkie emojis do i have to send to get an acknowledgment. dana bash, how are you? this is like everybody i see on tv screaming at each other all in one room. i haven't seen this many tuxedos since my high school prom. there's a story that i want to tell that i've never told in public. and i think this is the one time to tell us. it's an absolutely true story. about two years ago it was around 11:00 p.m. and i was watching the news. and it was before president trump was president trump. he was just donald trump, a guy that was talking about running for president. he was wearing a make america great again hat. i have a clothing line. let me see if make america great again is a registered trademark. so i go to the site and i type it in and it wasn't registered. make america great again was unregistered and the president was wearing it on his head. at the time he wasn't the president. i thought i'll take that and i bought it. and then i waited. because you don't own it right away. i thought there's got to be something to this. there's no way at the that time donald trump is wearing a hat out in front of millions of people and he doesn't own the trademark. so i called my attorney and he said, no one's claimed it. two months later it popped up on the website. i owned make america great again. now, you clap. i wasn't clapping about an hour later, because all of a sudden the attorneys for donald trump at the time were calling me like crazy, saying, hey, we're going to sue you. i did nothing wrong. business move. so i owned make america great again. i started selling t-shirts with my face on the statue of liberty and donating all the money to st. jude children's hospital. i said mr. trump i will sell you make america great again back if you donate the money to st. jude. tmz is blowing me up. they want the story. i won't talk about it. president trump's lawyers are blowing me up. it wasn't nice. and so i realized i just didn't want to get sued and i ended up having to give it over to that group. and they wrote a check for about $2,000 for it and i learned a lesson, a couple lessons. one, you never want to mess with the legal team of president trump. and, two, i didn't want to end up with one of those cute twitter nicknames like bobby boner. so i'm glad i got away from it. for a while, i was the owner of make america great again. i've never shared that story until right now. and i got to tell it in front of wolf blitzer. wow. all right. let's get to business here because we have a lot to talk about. there are a lot of great people in this room that i've been able to meet. for me it's been fantastic. my radio show, it's not a political show. what i'm able to do every morning is talk to millions of people. i have the privilege of talking to your constituents, your readers every singing morning to try and make them laugh. sometimes i cry with them, as was the case a couple weeks back with the shooting in las vegas. i was there at the festival. the country music community was devastated. i was devastated. what came out of all the tragedy is something that was super inspiring. people from all over the country all came together as a community to support and comfort each other, to donate money, to send prayers and thoughts to those who were suffering. it reminded me of the gift and responsibility we all have in the media, in public life. that is to keep people safe, keep them informed and especially us in the media, to keep them informed. i went on the air at 5:00 in the morning and just turned everything off except talking to people who were there and talking to people who have been affected by it and talking with families. so i hope tonight that we take that away. for the tv people up front and the radio people they put very much in the back, can you guys -- got good seats? i heard someone earlier in radio go, hey, there's not a bad seat in the house. t the only person who would say that is the person with a bad seat. i just want to say thank you. the rtca's lifetime acheemtieve award was establish eed to honoa member demonstrating a deep expertise of congress. it signifies the admiration of many who follow behind. here to present tonight's career achievement award peter doherty of abc news. [ applause ]. >> thank you very much. tonight it is my great honor to present the radio and television correspondents association's career achievement award to t abc's congressional editor tom shine. [ applause ]. >> i should note that tom received the unanimous support of his colleagues on the executive board. tom has devoted his 40-year career to telling stories of congress. he doesn't write, shoot, edit or produce those stories. rather, he performs that most important role of a journalist, finding the story. tom has this ability to truly get at the heart of what's going on in congress and not just what congress does or doesn't do or what plmembers say or don't say. tom's stories often start well outside of washington, because he knows that's the best way to tell a story, with the people who are living every day so that our viewers can truly understand how they are impacted by that story on a personal level. in working side by side with tom over these 40 some odd years, i've treasured his warm friendship, his wise counsel. but i have become resigned to one fact. despite all the money that abc spends for computer support, i will always be the one that tom calls when that damn thing doesn't work. tom is a truly remarkable person. not more than 30 minutes ago we were chatting upstairs and tom is well known for his long hours. and the boss of bosses said to tom, you're coming in late tomorrow, aren't you? tom said, oh no, i'll be there early. and he will. so in the spirit of how one of tom's stories might turn out, here's our story of tom shine. ♪ >> tom shine is an institution in washington, d.c. >> tom shine walked in the door of the abc washington bureau as a desk assistant may 12th, 1973. >> scheduled program to bring you -- >> the next week, the nation tuned in for gavel to gavel televised hearings from the nation's capitol. >> about to begin public hearings on something called watergate. >> a little over a year later, president nixon left the white house and the presidency. an overexcited tom shine was there to cover it from the south lawn. chastised later for cueing his reporter out loud and on air. >> let's see if virginia can tell us some things. go. ♪ >> because it's helms, i think we automatically would go -- >> a desk editor and assignment manager for the last 39 years there behind sam donaldson and frank reynolds in 1981 as they announce the assassination attempt on president reagan. tom has covered history from abc's news desk for more than four decades through nine presidents and dozens of congressional leadership teams. >> now congress is not held in such high regard. but tom, your respect for the institution has always been manifest. >> and tom always believes in the importance

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