{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.speaker.gov/general/speaker-ryan-2017-well-deliver-results", "Speaker Ryan: In 2017, We'll Deliver Results", "2016-12-06", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Paul Ryan", "R000570", "www.speaker.gov", null, null, "legacy", "2016 was a busy\u2014and productive\u2014year for House Republicans. At a press conference with other Republican leaders, Speaker Ryan discussed 2016 and the #BetterWay that's on the horizon: \u00a0\n\"At the start of this year, we as House Republicans made a number of commitments to the American people.\n\"First, we pledged to open up the process\u2014to find common ground for the good of the country. If you look at how we are wrapping up our work for the end of the year here, we\u2019ve done just that: 21st Century Cures. The National Defense Authorization Bill. The water resources bill.\n\"These initiatives all went through the committees. They are all bipartisan. And they are all House-Senate agreements.\n\"That is how we should do things here. It\u2019s important, because that\u2019s exactly how things should work.\n\"The most overarching thing we set out to do\u2014going all the way back to our retreat in Baltimore almost a year ago\u2014was that we would raise our gaze. We would go from being seen as simply being an opposition party to being a proposition party. And with 7 out of 10 Americans unhappy with the direction our country is headed, we felt we had a duty\u2014a moral obligation\u2014to offer our fellow citizens a better way forward. And that\u2019s exactly what we did.\n\"We did not just check the box to win an election, or we didn\u2019t do this so I could just [promote] a website\u2014better.gop\u2014a thousand times with you. The idea was, if we actually won the election by campaigning on solutions and ideas, we would be ready to govern.\n\"And here we are. We are ready to hit the ground running, and we need to hit the ground running. We gave the people a very clear choice, and now the people have given us very clear instructions: deliver results and deliver relief.\n\"Relief from Obamacare\u2014this law is hurting families and it\u2019s only going to get worse. Relief from this broken tax code that is costing us jobs, competitiveness, and growth. Relief from overreach and needless regulations that are crushing livelihoods and industries across this country.\n\"That is what a unified Republican government will be about. It will be about helping our people reach their potential, and making America great again.\n\"So 2016 was about raising our gaze. 2017 is going to be about doing big things for our country.\"", 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/speaker-ryan-2017-well-deliver-results"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8922870513051748, "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"}