They had to put cement in her back. Like it comes out of the truck . Pretty much she said. They fill in the gaps that i have and i have to take therapy and i will be fine. He was fine mentally. This woman had an aura about her, i can only think of three people in my lifetime that when they were in the room you knew it, there was something emanating from the character, the soul, the intellect of Phyllis Schlafly. Its an extraordinary life. I know one of her Close Friends is Louie Gohmert who is on the floor tonight, id appreciate it if congressman gohmert, our friend from texas, would say a few words about phyllis. Mr. Gohmert thank you, so much. What a woman. What person. Phyllis schlafly led efforts to return america to being a shining light on a hill. That it had been. But the light was dimming. She could see that. She could see the harm that was happening to our most vulnerable. And she led an effort more years than anybody that ive ever known personally, return america to being a citadel for freedom and for morality from which freedom can only grow. Yet w us losing our way, she remained relentless. Those who despiced her know better than most anyone else, this is someone who would never, ever give up. She was a leader, a warrior, a mentor, a friend. And like very dear friends, like family, you have disagreements sometimes, but you knew her heart. You knew she wanted what was best for you, for this country, for the world. Phyllis will mr. King if the gentleman will yield, id just like to interject, when i disagreed with phyllis, i just assumed i was wrong. I yield back. Mr. Gemert mr. Gohmert thats a great assumption with phyllis. Shes fought the good fight. Shes finished her course. Shes kept the faith. Ill be there saturday morning for the with her family but the best memorial we can give to Phyllis Schlafly is to make sure the light of freedom and morality does not die in america. Thank you, i yield back. Mr. King reclaiming my time, thanking the gentleman from texas for a moving presentation here. I know it means something deeply in his heart as it does in ours as here in this country, across the country, by the thousands. One thing i would like to interject into this discussion. She would want me to say, article 3, section 2, court stripping western dont need to genuflect to the supremacists. The court has gotten out of control. The constitution is set up where theyre to be the weakest branch of government, not a splem cyst branch of government. Phyllis handed me the man ewe vipt to this book, it was printed off a copy machine, kind of clipped together, i work through all of that, i wrote edits on it, notes in the margin, i worked through it for hours, in fact, it was days. It got lost on the plane back from africa. I said, i need a little more time to work on the edits of your book because the manuscript has been lost in the freight, in the luggage. She looked at me and said, well, congressman, i didnt intend for you to edit my book, i just intebbed for you to have an early copy. I knew exactly what i wanted to say. And this, the book stands up. She knew exactly what she wanted to say. Says a lot about her intellect and personality. With utter clarity, the clearest political thinker of our time, based in biblical values, values of christianity, constitutional values, a clear understanding of people and humanity and faith and family, she wrote on so many topics and she had with utter clarity on topic after topic after topic. She lived a life of 92 years. She was a player on the public arena since immediately postworld war ii and she was a player in our lives to this day and shes in our heart, shes in our soul, shes in our conscience and she affects our thinking and actions and she will for a long, long time to come. S that woman who has redirected the destiny of america. And i cant think of anyone who has had, any woman who has had more impact on the course of history in the United States of america, nor weighs more hely on our sense of duty of what we need to do Going Forward to continue to honor the glorious life of Phyllis Schlafly, rest in peace, phyllis, god love you, we do. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. Does the gentleman from iowa have a motion . Mr. King madam speaker, i move the house to now adjourn. The speaker pro tempore those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The motion is adopted. Accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 9 00 a. M. Tomorrow. The Senate Passing jasta back in may with the support obviously of senator shumer from new york and john cornyn of texas. A little deeper into the work that those senators and other members of congress have done with 9 11 families, how have those families kept the pressure on members of congress for this legislation . Guest well, you know, i think really the thing to remember here is that this is a piece of legislation thats short of hard to say no to politically. Theres a theres quite a few supporters of this bill treating it as a moral imperative. They are calling for justice for victims of the families of victims of these attacks. Theres sort of long been speculation that saudi arabia was either explicitly or implicitly supportive of the 9 11 attacks in some way. Now the saudi government has of course vehemently denied this and the white house has backed them up but the fact remain this is a 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9 11 were saudi. Thats sort of kept a veneer of speculation surrounding the kingdom. Host. You mention its hard to say no to but thats what the white house is going to do. You mention it in your article at thehill. Com. President obama set to veto the legislation. Whats his argument against it . Guest hes got two arguments gainst it. One is that it will damage the relationship with saudi arabia. Hes also concerned that this will open the door for the u. S. Government to be subject to the same kind of lawsuits from other countries. Sporters of the bill say it is narrowly drawn and this isnt a concern an theres some doubt that the president may actually pull out his veto pen. For one thing, the white house has been very careful about the language that it has used when it expressed opposition to this bill. They stopped short of actually threatening to veto it. Supporters of the bill are saying that this gives them a little bit of hope that he might not. They also point to the overwhelming support that the bill has gotten from both sides of the aisle. There are 29 democratic cosponsors on this piece of legislation in the house. And obviously senator schumer in the senate is championing that effort as well. So it would be a significant expenditure of political capital, really, for president obama to say no to this. It would be the first time that he has been overridden by, particularly by members of his own party. Host how much did the recent release of the 28 pages from the 9 11 report alleging links between saudi arabia and some of the hijackers, how much did this propel all of this forward in terms of getting the legislation to the house floor . Guest depends on who you ask. Theres some people who think that it certainly gave it a push, so to speak, but there wasnt any smoking gun in those 28 pages. Intelligence officials and the leads of the Intelligence Committee have been pretty care to feel say those were preliminary findings, fully investigated bive the Intelligence Community and ultimately didnt end up bearing fruit. So its a matter of speculation, really, how much of an impact that had. Host is it your sense that there would be an override vote for the president s veto . Guest its pretty widely passed and so theres a question of would the president veto it, support ofse the bill believe they have the 2 3 necessary to override that veto. Host we appreciate your update. Earlier today, House Speaker paul ryan held his Weekly Briefing with reporters at the capitol he discussed health care, combating isis and the upcoming congressional agenda. This is 10 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] speaker ryan this is Suicide Prevention week. In a fwiven year, roughly one in five americans suffer from some kind of Mental Illness. One in five. As you know, the house passed land mark reforms to change the way our Health Care System deals with Mental Illness this legislation wont solve all the problems but its a very, very important step and we hope this bill becomes law. Next, even in a government as divided as ours, there are some things that should remain above politics. That of course includes dealing with Public Health crises such as the zika virus. That is why the house in july, the house passed a plan to make sure that the resources go where they are needed most. I will remind you that this plan is a compromise. It is a full funding level that the senate supported and it is only partially offset. Yet the Senate Democrats voted not once, not twice, but three time, the Senate Democrats vote it is three to ims to block this they need to get past the politics and work with us to protect the public. Another matter that should be above politics is making sure our men and women in uniform get the resources they need to do their job. We have passed the Defense Authorization bill for decades on a bipartisan basis. This week, we learned of a pentagon memo that lays out in detail a plan to, and im quote, play hardball with our National Defense bill. This bill is a bill that both parties have always worked on together. It provides for a pay raise for our troops. But the memo describes a veto of that pay raise, and im quoting again, to use it as a principal weapon at our disposal. When you consider our readiness crisis, it is an abity case of responsibility for this administration and its officials to use our military as political leverage. Quite frankly, they ought to be ashamed of this memo. My hope is that secretary carter will recant this strategy and work with us in good faith to pass a defense bill. That is exactly why we are offering a better way for National Security. So that we can truly build a 21st century military and have a strategy that keeps us safe and doesnt play politics with our military. You can learn more about this by going to better. Gop. With that, im happy to answer your questions. A little louder. [inaudible] speaker ryan we dont have the votes right now. Its not something im thinking about because i know the votes on this issue pretty well and we dont have the votes and they quite frankly, i think theyve got to fix this, theyve got to fix it and they havent done that. When you said you want the party to be the proposition party, that you want 2016 to be the batman beginsle of ideas, yet donald trump hasnt put forward a plan to defeat isis are you urging him to do so . Speaker ryan we put out a plan to defeat isis. Look at the Republican Party, look at what the House Republicans offered, we put out a 6 point plan to bolster our military and defeat isis and go after the ideology of radical Islamic Jihad overseas and how to address homegrown jihadists. Look at what were offering in conjunction with our nominee. Speaker ryan, on zika, one of the issues is Family Planning money are you open to funding that allows planned parenthood to help those people. Speaker ryan theres no planned parenthood in this bill. To put an earmark for planned parenthood is something we dont do. Were going to have a vote on jasta and suing saudi arabia. What do you say to folks like john bolton who wrote an oped in the wall street journal expressing concern about sovereignty issues, relations with saudi arabia and what is the downside of a piece of legislation like this . Speaker ryan they raise compelling concerns, but there are compelling concerns on the other side of this as. We i think the votes are very overwhelmingly in favor this bill passed unanimously in the United States senate. I think those concerns have been taken under consideration and i think members are acting accordingly an thats why this bill will pass. Yesterday, harry reid said the reason the Health Care Law is collapsing now is that republicans refuse to work with them on improving the law. How do you respond to that criticism . Speaker ryan i met with the blue crossblue shield actuaries. Actuaries will tell you the law was going to fail. I met with actuaries who said its fail two years ahead of ski rule this law was was defined in such a way that a death spiral was inevitable. Nothing was going to stop imo ba macare from imploding an collapsing under its own weight. United has pulled out. Kaiser said 31 of counties in america ha just one choice. Thats a monopoly. Its like not having insurance anymore because your deductibles are is high. No amount of tinkering around this law is going to fix it. Again, susan, this is why we as republicans have come together to offer a better way forward on health care. We are showing our fellow citizens what a what an obamacare replacement looks like and how we can get to the objective we all share of getting prices down, having more choice, more competition and having patience be the center of our Health Care System and their doctors and not government bureaucrats who are basically imploding our entire Health Care System. Mr. Speaker. Sorry. At the Candidate Forum last night, donald trump had high praise for putin and im just curious what you think about that, if youre concerned at all. Speaker ryan let me say this about Vladimir Putin. Hes an aggressor who does not share our interests. Vladimir putin is violating the sovereignty of neighboring countries. It certainly appears hes conducting statesponsored cyberattacks on what appears to be our political system. What is not acting in our interests. And that is an adversarial stance and hes acting like an adversary. To follow up on that, are you concerned about donald trump praising Vladimir Putin . Speaker ryan i made my points about putin clear. Lets leave it at that. What king about the c. R. , are you going to do . Speaker ryan my style of leadership is to have consensusdriven, bottomup style of leader shep. Our members havent had a chance to talk to each other for a couple of months. Were going to be discussing end of fiscal year funding resolutions, c. R. Strategies, i want to hear from members what we think and thousand to proceed Going Forward so we have a continuing resolution that will be done by the end of this month. Were going to have a planning conference on it. Youre probably going to have to call the i. R. S. That planning conference is next week. Since we were last in this room, mr. Speaker, donald trump hired a campaign c. E. O. Who said hes sick of paul ryan rubbing his social justice kath olcism in my face every minute, saying generals have been reduced to rubble, the military is an embarrassment and like my colleague said , he praised Vladimir Putin and said hes a better leader an the president of the United States. Do you still think Hillary Clinton is the worst thing speaker is ryan do you think im going to stand up here youre backing a nominee. Speaker ryan im not going to do tit for tat on what donald trump said. Thats not my job. Im not going to be the Election Year pundit. Are you still comfortable voting for him to be command for the chief . Speaker ryan ill leave it at that. Senator mcconnell said hes been talking with the white house and democrats about the c. R. Have you been involved in discussions with senator mcconnell and the white house about the december c. R. Idea . Is that something youd like to sell to your members . Speaker ryan i want to hear from our members first. We want to talk as a family, as a team first before we proceed with any kind of plan to go forward and engage with the white house. I want to hear from members first. I want to have a good conversation with them before we engage. Have you discuss that with senator mcconnell . Speaker ryan i talk with mitch all time. I dont want to do the daytoday machinations but youll have a recess in a few more weeks where youre off through the elections. How hard are you going to work . Im going to be working with House Republicans, im doing a thing with todd young pretty soon. I think rob portman after that. My job as speaker of the house is to make sure we preserve our House Majority. Helping preserve our House Majority help ours nominee all the way around. So making sure that House Republicans are running strong, which we will, will be good for all republicans. Is there any possibility of a tpp vote, the Vice President said he wants one. Speaker ryan i think its going to go down, i dont think wesht bring up something thats going to go down. They talked about budgetary form, one thing specifically talked about was a commission to take a look at entitlements, taxes and so on. Speaker ryan id rather pass a budget that shows what we want to do. Take a look at entitlement reforms in a better way. The big drivers of our debt, as you know, jonathan are health care entitlements. We are showing exactly what we think the solution is to saving entitlements from bankruptcy. Which also saves the country from bankruptcy. I think we should do our jobs in Congre