{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.speaker.gov/general/about-last-night-speaker-ryans-interview-sean-hannity", "About Last Night: Speaker Ryan's Interview With Sean Hannity", "2016-12-10", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Paul Ryan", "R000570", "www.speaker.gov", null, null, "legacy", "After meeting with President-elect Trump earlier in the day, Speaker Ryan appeared on Hannity to discuss the priorities of the new unified Republican government.\u00a0\u201cWe finally, finally have this great opportunity that\u2019s been given to us by the American people to get this country back on track, to relimit our government, to honor the Constitution, to clean this mess up,\u201d\u00a0he said. Check out more excerpts below:\nSpeaker Ryan on Obamacare: Repeal Is Relief\u00a0\n\u201cIt\u2019s getting worse with Obamacare.\u00a0\u2026 Double-digit premium increases. They\u2019re making the deductibles so high, it\u2019s not like you even have insurance in the first place.\u00a0What we anticipate coming in 2017 is more of that.\u201d\n\t\u201cWhat we want to do is bring relief immediately.\u00a0We are going to work on our repeal legislation immediately. And then we have to make sure that there\u2019s that good transition period, so that people don\u2019t have the rug pulled out from under them, and we can bring relief as quickly as possible.\u201d\u00a0\nSpeaker Ryan on Working Closely with President-Elect Trump\n\t\u201cThe conversations we have always revolve around just getting things done. How we\u2019re going to replace Obamacare. What tax reform looks like. How we\u2019re going to secure the border. How we\u2019re going to get people from welfare to work. What does rebuilding the military look like. These are the things we\u2019re talking about, and now we\u2019re just talking about, how do we execute it.\u201d\n\u201cWhat I\u2019m really impressed with is the Cabinet that he\u2019s putting together. This is a very good Cabinet. He is picking very good people. This is something that those of us who have been fighting against this liberal progressive government really excited. \u2026 The way I look at it is, why don\u2019t we all stop underestimating Donald Trump? I think that\u2019d be a smart thing to do.\u201d\nSpeaker Ryan on Border Security, the VA, and Education\n\t\u201cWhat President-elect Trump has asked us to focus on is enforcing current law\u2026 and getting the border secured. That\u2019s what he says he wants us focused on, and that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re working on.\u201d\n\u201cHouse Republicans\u2014Jeff Miller, the chairman of the committee\u2014he's the one who uncovered the disgrace at the VA. So we're the ones who brought the Choice program in place to give veterans recourse away from these waiting lists, so absolutely. That place really needs a clearing out.\u201d\n\t\"I can't think of a better person than Betsy DeVos, who has really been a trailblazer in education reform on behalf of choice and charter schools, which to me is really one of the critical components of fighting poverty more effectively. ... We've already pushed the dollars back to the states. Now we want to encourage innovation, like choice and charter, to actually take place, because that is how you get people out of the poverty trap.\u201d\n .@SpeakerRyan on Obamacare: \u201cWhat we want to do is bring relief immediately. We\u2019re going to work on repeal legislation immediately\u201d\n\t\u2014 Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) December 10, 2016", 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://www.speaker.gov/general/about-last-night-speaker-ryans-interview-sean-hannity"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5266439877450466, "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"}