Newly-elected House Speaker Paul Ryan all but ended any chance of comprehensive immigration reform during the final year of President Barack Obama’s term in office.
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“I do not believe we should advance comprehensive immigration legislation with a president who’s proven himself untrustworthy on this issue”, he said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “He tried to go it alone, circumventing the legislative process with his executive orders”.
Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said in a recent interview that he knew Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) would become Speaker of the House because it was part of God’s plan.
Hard though it will be, especially in a presidential election year, Mr. Ryan should lead on issues that matter beyond the Beltway and aren’t intended merely to win the 24-hour news cycle.
Mr. Ryan had said he was hesitant to accept the job because its duties would rob him of family time. I think we should say what [the] Obamacare replacement looks like, ‘ Ryan said. Boehner said he and Ryan were in a yoga class together for a little while, but for him, it’s just about the benefits of stretching. But when Ryan chose to run for speaker it was under several conditions, one of which was that he’d be allowed to go home on the weekends to spend time with his wife and kids. We need to take those common principles and apply them to the problems of the day through consensus to show the country a better way forward.
If Ryan can bring the Tea Party zealots into line, he will have done his job.
She added that the Ryan and other Republicans should try to help “level the playing field for American workers”.
‘Electricity will make it much more efficient I think, ‘ Ryan joked. “And I’m just going to sleep in my office, because it’s very convenient for me”, Ryan said. “It was a deeply divided, dysfunctional Republican Party… and that remains”. So a few of those bold vision that he talks about are things that are worthy of a good debate we think we win that debate with the American public.
Ryan was not portrayed, either in the Sunday interviews or the saturation media coverage of the previous week, as representing a further shift to the right in the United States political establishment, although that is certainly the case. “But this is not an issue I believe we can or should be able to work with this president on”.
Those policy risks will include tackling the bloated tax code and replacing Obama’s signature 2010 health care law, often referred to as Obamacare.
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Ryan said he stood by comments he made in July about Trump’s rhetoric on immigration.
