Ryan: ‘We Will Proceed with Tax Reform’

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RYAN: "Our members know we did everything we could to get consensus. This is how governing works when you’re in the majority. We need 216 people to agree with each other to write legislation. Not 210, not 215. We need 216 people in the house to agree with each other on how to write a piece of legislation. We didn’t have 216 people. We were close. We did not have 216 people. That’s how legislating works. So now we’re going to move on with the rest of our agenda because we have big ambitious plans to improve people’s lives in this country. We want to secure the border, rebuild our military. We want to get the deficit under control. We want infrastructure and tax reform. Yes, this does make tax reform more difficult but doesn’t make it impossible. We will proceed with tax reform and continue with tax reform. That’s an issue I know about. I used to run that committee. I spoke with the president and his economic advisors earlier today about tax reform. So we’re going to proceed with tax reform."