{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://paulryan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398175", "Paul Ryan: Obama already hurting chances for 2015 cooperation", "2014-11-19", "2014", "2014-11", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Paul Ryan", "R000570", "paulryan.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "By Lori Montgomery\r\n\r\nRep. Paul Ryan, the incoming chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, laid out an expansive agenda Wednesday for 2015, including a GOP alternative to the Affordable Care Act and a fix for the looming shortfall in the federal disability insurance program.\r\nAn overhaul of the nation\u2019s tax laws will also rank high on the agenda when Ryan (R-Wis.) takes the helm of the tax-writing panel in January.\r\nHowever, Ryan acknowledged significant hurdles to passing tax reform during President Obama\u2019s final years in office, and said far-reaching legislation may have to wait until a new president is seated in 2017.\r\n\u201cWe\u2019d like to do it sooner rather than later, but we don\u2019t control everything,\u201d Ryan said in an interview. He cited Obama\u2019s longstanding refusal to roll out his own tax plan as well as the president\u2019s recent decision to forge ahead with a unilateral ban on the deportation of some undocumented immigrants \u2014 a move that has inflamed Republicans.\r\n\u201cHow the president starts his relationship with the new Congress will do a lot to set the tone, and so far, it doesn\u2019t look good,\u201d Ryan said.\r\nRyan declined to say whether he would try to advance tax legislation without White House cooperation. But he left the door open when asked whether he would follow the lead of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), who has expressed a new willingness to set aside efforts to overhaul the individual tax code and focus on reforming tax laws for businesses, where there is more hope of bipartisan agreement. McConnell invited Obama to negotiate on business tax reform after Republicans consolidated their hold on Congress earlier this month\r\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to foreclose any option,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cThere is a sense of urgency around this issue regarding competitiveness and corporate inversions. The question is whether the president will nurture a working relationship with Congress that\u2019s conducive to finding common ground.\u201d\r\nRyan, who was the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2012, is one of the GOP\u2019s most important thinkers on fiscal and economic policy. He has chaired the House Budget Committee since 2011, producing a series of austere spending plans that proposed to wipe out deficits over the next 10 years, lower the top tax rate from 39.6 percent to 25 percent and replace the open-ended Medicare guarantee with a government voucher.\r\nAs chairman of Ways and Means, Ryan will have the authority to produce legislation to implement those ideas. He replaces retiring Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), who declined to pursue Ryan\u2019s Medicare plan when it became a political hot potato in 2011. Earlier this year, Camp released a tax reform draft that showed the enormous difficulty of achieving Ryan\u2019s goal of getting tax rates down to 25 percent.\r\nRyan has said it would be easier to hit that target if the Congressional Budget Office used a process called \u201cdynamic scoring\u201d to measure broad effects on the economy when judging tax legislation. While CBO already uses dynamic scoring on a limited basis, Ryan said Wednesday he will have additional recommendations in the new Congress \u201cfor making sure we take these things into consideration.\u201d\r\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/19/paul-ryan-obama-already-hurting-chances-for-2015-cooperation/", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://paulryan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398175"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7684421725571156, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}