The speaker the chair wishes to mark the return to the chamber of our dear friend and colleague from louisiana, mr. Steve scalise. Our prayers have been answered. His bravery and his familys strength have been such an inspiration to this house and to the people it serves. America is grateful for this moment. He chair now proudly asks, for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana seek recognition . Mr. Scalise to speak out of rder, mr. Speaker. The speaker the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he may consume. Mr. Scalise thank you, mr. Speaker. You have no idea how great this feels to be back here at work in the peoples house. As you can imagine these last 3 1 2 months have been pretty challenging times for me and my family. But if you look at the outpouring of love, of warmth, of prayer, my gosh, jennifer and i have been overwhelmed with all of that outpouring. Us the strength to get through all of this and to get to this point today. T starts us the strength with. When i was laying out on that ball field, the first thing i did once i was down and couldnt move anymore is i just started to pray. And ill tell you it gave me an unbelievable sense of calm knowing that at that point it was in gods hands. But i prayed for very specific things. I will tell you pretty much every one of those prayers was answered. And they were some pretty allenging chairs i was putting in gods hands. He really did deliver for me and my family and it just gives you that renewed faith and understanding that the power of prayer is something that you just cannot underestimate. So im definitely a living example that miracles really do happen. The first place i want to go to thank true angels along the way starts with the United States apitol police. When i was elected majority whip as you know the elected leadership has a security detail. If anybody ever wondered why were assigned security detail, i surely found out that day. Let me tell you, i want to specifically mention crystal griner and david bailey. Crystal and david were assigned to my security detail that morning, and day in and day out they are part of our family. Jennifer and i truly treat them as part of our family because they are with us everywhere they go. On that day, june 14, they came 6 30 in the morning. We arrived at the baseball field just to play and practice for a game of charity baseball. Nobody would have suspected what ensued. Yet as soon as those shots were fired ill tell you, when i was laying on the ground, one of the things i prayed for is that david and crystal would be successful in carrying out their duties. And both david and crystal are incredibly well trained, incredibly professional. But when i was laying there not long after the first couple of a s were fired, coy hear different caliber weapon and that told me that they had immediately engaged the shooter. Let me tell you, if they didnt act so quickly, even after being shot a different caliber weapon and that told me that they had both continued to engage the shooter and ultimately got him down, which not only saved my life, but saved the life of a lot of other people that are here in this chamber today. Crystal couldnt be with us today, but david bailey is with us. David, you are my hero. You saved my life. Thank you so much. I also thank owe thanks to loot of people on the field with me. Right after the shooter was down a lot of my colleagues came and ran to come check on me. And one i want to mention in particular is one of those things that jennifer and i call the Little Miracles that happened that day and throughout the next few months of our recovery. Heaped to have Brad Wenstrup on the field that day, and he was one of the first to come to my side. As you know brads not only a doctor, but hes a decorated army ranger who served in combat. One of his roles and missions to take care of people that were wounded before they went off on the helicopter to go get prepared. Who would have thought that god would have to take care of peop were wounded before they went off put brad out there on the field with me because the tourniquet he applied, many will tell you, saved my life so i could actually make it to the hospital in time with alt blood loss. Rad, where are you at . Once i arrived at med star hospital, i was a little bit out of it at that point, but luckily i ended up in the trusted hands of dr. Jack sava and his great team over at med star. They gave me a Second Chance at life. And through many, many surgeries where my life was truly in the balance a few of those, they did a wonderful job at making sure that i was well taken care of and ultimately made it through that point so i could get to dr. Golden and his team who actually put me back together again, which was quite a task, to the point where im actually able to relearn how to walk again. Dr. Sava, dr. Golden, thank you for being here. Thanks for your teams work. Above all else, i want to thank y lovely wife, jennifer. Those of you who know her know how strong jennifer is. Shes an incredibly warm and loving wife. And shes an incredible mother to our children. Somehow through the late nights and the surgeries and all the other things, she managed to hold our family together. To make sure that harris and madison were cared for as well. To this day shes not only by my side but serving as a great other. m lucky to have been challenge in time for my family, the thing that really overwhelmed us from the start was the outpouring of love and warmth and prayers from southeast louisiana, thetrict i represent. We saw the district i represent. We saw blood drives at st. Katherine. Prayer groups at First United Methodist Church at slidell. But what we also saw were prayer groups and well wishes being given from people we never met before throughout all your districts. You shared it with me. And it was one of those things that was hard for us to completely comprehend that you had people from all walks of life that had never met me before and yet they saw what had happened. And they just wanted to offer prayers. Let me tell you, that each and every one of you, please convey it to your constituents, i sure convey it to mine back home, that warmth and love gave us just incredible strength that you cant imagine during some really, really difficult times. So that is one more example of the power of prayer. Something else i saw firsthand wasnt a surprise to me, but it was the outpouring of love from you, my colleagues. Both republican and democrat. Right after the shooting we on the ticing republican side and the democrats were practicing, too. And my colleague and friend and sometimes archrival in baseball from back home in new orleans, unfortunately, the star of the game too many on the republican side and the democrats were practicing, time richmond somehow figured out which hospital i was sent to and got there probably the first person there on the scene in his baseball uniform to check on me. So many others of you, again both republican and democrat, reached out in ways that i express the gratitude and how much it means to me, we do have to leave Steve Scalises remarks and take you live to the floor of the house that just gaveled in. That the Senate Passed with an amendment, h. R. 3823, signed sincerely, karen l. Haas. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to take from the speakers table