Paul Ryan: 2016 Will Be About ‘Getting Back’ to ‘Regular Order’

‘First, we are lifting the government’s 40-year old ban on crude oil export ... this is a big win for American jobs’

“I’m going to go solo right now, because — what is this — I’m going to go solo because we have votes up stairs, so I want to head up as well, as soon as I can.

Look, in divided government known gets exactly what they want. But, this week we have completed two bipartisan agreements, that advance Republican priorities. First, we are lifting the government’s 40 year old ban on crude oil exports. This is a big win for American jobs and for energy industry. It’s a big win for our manufactures and for our foreign policy. We are increasing military spending. We’re tightening security requirements under the nation’s visa waiver program. We are permanently reauthorizing the critical health care benefits for our 9/11 first responders in a very fiscally responsible way. We are preventing a taxpayer bailout of ObamaCare’s risk [indecipherable] program. We are freezing most IRS operations and stopping the IRS from suppressing civic participation in 501(c)(4) organizations. We’re maintaining all of our pro-life protections including the Hyde amendment and we’re making cuts to the UNFPA program. In addition to all of that we are ending Washington’s these days of extending tax policies one year at a time. I cannot tell you how many times I have visited with small businesses and farmers who tell me give me some certainty in the tax code and I can go create jobs. We are finally delivering on one of those tax policies we’ve been trying to for years to get, certainty in the tax code so that we can create more jobs. I think, this is one of the biggest steps toward a rewrite of our tax code we have made in many years and will help us start pro-growth [indecipherable] tax reform agenda in 2016. 

And lastly, I’ve said I inherited to this process. Let me be the first to say I don’t think this is way government should work. This is not how appropriations should work. So we played the cards that we were dealt with as best as we possibly could. And inheriting a process I know we need to restore to regular order. And I believe we’ve made the best of it. We listen to our members, we’ve let our committees take the lead and I’m pleased that we’ve been able to accomplish so many things for the American people. And I look forward to in 2016 just like we have in the last six weeks getting Congress working back on the way it should be working. Getting back to what we call a regular order. That is what 2016 is going to be about is steering this battleship to hard-working the way the people’s house was intended to be working in the first place.”

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