Elizabeth Phillips

He's with the Texas Rangers now.

And, um, he's also a combat veteran.

He's from there.

He knows that river inside and out.

You couldn't have someone better on paper to be searching for Seal and the... There's another man that's still missing.

Um, but...

Blake and Caitlin Lyle's parents, they called me a few weeks later after the service, and they were like, we're ready.

I thought it would be way down the road.

Like, that they would just... hunker down, grieve, raise their other two daughters, and they were ready to fight.

So, I took a call with them, and they were like, how did you pass Trey's Law?

How do we go about reforming the camp industry?

And this was in the summer, so I mentioned Texas only meets every other year, their legislature.

So there are things called a special session.

If something doesn't get resolved during the regular legislative session, the governor can call a special session.

And at this point, when I'm talking to my friends, um, there is a special session happening, but the Democrats have walked out over redistricting, so, like, nothing's happening in Austin.

And, uh, because that stalled out, there was the likelihood that the governor was gonna call a second special session.

And, um, I got in touch with my lobbying team, who helped me pass Trey's Law.

Um, and one of them was a br- I mean, everyone's traveling in the summer, right?

So I was, like, trying to run down this team, and one was in London, one was in Italy, and then, um, there was someone available in Austin, and he actually knew Lila's dad, Blake.

And, uh,