{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://paulryan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398578", "Ryan Discusses A #BetterWay with WCLOs Tim Bremel", "2016-11-29", "2016", "2016-11", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Paul Ryan", "R000570", "paulryan.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2014 Today Wisconsin\u2019s First District congressman and speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, spoke with WCLO\u2019s Tim Bremel about implementing House Republicans\u2019 agenda, A Better Way, in 2017.Outlining legislative priorities for next year:\u201cThe first priority is to get the economy growing, get the economy moving. Regulatory relief is a huge part of that. Just go talk to any small-business person . . . and you\u2019ll hear an earful about regulations that are holding them back. So that\u2019s one of the things an incoming administration can bring some immediate relief to, in addition to bills in Congress that we\u2019re working on.\u201d***\r\n\u201cThe health care law is really doing a lot of harm in that people have much fewer choices\u2014some have no choices\u2014and extremely high premiums. . . . So Obamacare relief is something we think is really high and early on the agenda.\u201d***\r\n\u201cReforming the tax code is soon thereafter. That we think is extremely important for economic growth. We\u2019re losing American companies. We\u2019re losing jobs. And we think we can get far faster economic growth and wage growth by reforming our tax system.\u201d\u201cThe tax code is so messy, it\u2019s such a special-interest cesspool, and we want to clean that up. And then, we\u2019ve got all these other issues\u2014like foreign policy, rebuilding the military\u2014that we need to address. . . . Securing the border is a high priority. Take a look at the heroin epidemic we have in Wisconsin. Take a look at some of the crime that comes from . . . a porous border.***\r\n\u201cAnd then while we work on that, we want to work on poverty and restoring our constitutional separation of powers, which is part of regulatory relief and regulatory reform. So those are effectively the six pieces that we\u2019ve been talking about. And the incoming administration, we see eye to eye on these things. And so now, we\u2019re just figuring out how to execute this agenda so that we can get people safe, get people in good jobs, and get this economy growing.\u201d", 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=398578"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6677599158138037, "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"}