Paul Ryan has a laser focus on what really doesn't matter.

Puerto Rico's 3. 5 million citizens, U.S. citizens, are facing "near-death conditions" following Hurricane Maria. "Just yesterday, we have been canvassing one by one all of our elderly homes, finding our elderly―and I’m not kidding―we [had] to transfer 11 of them in near-death conditions, no food, no water, no electricity and really the sanitary conditions were deplorable," reports San Juan's mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz.

So what's the U.S. House of Representatives doing about it? Nothing, unless you count scheduling a vote on an unconstitutional abortion ban some kind of help.

Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced Tuesday that the House would vote on the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," on Oct. 3. The bill last passed the House in 2015 but was blocked by Senate Democrats. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), would make it a crime to perform or attempt an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, with the possibility of a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.

They're tweeting about this with a hashtag #theyfeelpain. Funny how they use the hashtag #theyfeelpain bill for fetuses but not for people, oh, needing Medicaid. Or medical marijuana. Or for people starving and stranded in Puerto Rico.

It's always time for some red meat for the base when you're a Republican. They can't deliver Obamacare, so they might as well do this. Or, you know, spend some time trying to actually save actual living people.