These are unifying things within our party. We believe it will help propel not only the nominee but help us win. Mike last question. Of a julyility nominee how worried are you about a deadline . Speaker ryan i do not worry about stuff like that. I am not. Mike what are the possibilities . Speaker ryan i am busy working in congress. I do not think about stuff like that. Couple jake weeks ago you are trying to get into a new routine. Have you found that routine . Getting there . How has it changed . Speaker ryan i have more people with me. Here, i just work. I work out and i work. I have that routine. At home, it is a similar routine. Volleyball and basketball on weekends. Packers had a good win on sunday. Jake you were there . Speaker ryan yeah. I pretty much got myself in a routine. Jake you had dinner with nancy pelosi last night. What was the most interesting thing you learned . Speaker ryan the most interesting thing i learned this is newsworthy, that i had dinner with my counterpar
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Starting with, north korea would be the biggest topic today. Sony make the right decision and pulling the movie, or does that set up a dangerous precedent in the situation . Let me address the second question first. Sony is a corporation. Damageered significant area there were threats against employees. I am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. Having said all that, yes, i think they made a mistake. In this interconnected digital world, there are going to be opportunities for hackers to engage in cyber assaults, both in the private sector and the public sector. Our first order of business is making sure we do everything to prevent those kinds of attacks from taking place. When i came into office, i up a Cyber Security Interagency Team to do everything we could do at the government level to prevent these kinds of thefts. We have been coordinating from the private sector. More needs to be done. We are not close to where we need to be. There are a lot of things in the new year i H
First of all, i have no idea. We have failed to pass meaningful comprehensive healthcare legislation for over a century. The fact is we passed something in 2010, some i look back with and i look back with great satisfaction. Was its perfect bill . Absolutely not. I think most people fail to understand how much commonality there is. There is very little difference between republicans and democrats about the fact that we still have a cost problem. We intend more on heck neck the United States than india has nit entire gdp or brazil or russia. 9,200 per year this year. Costs have come down dramatically as a result in part of the passage of the Affordable Care act. Id emphasize only in part but nonetheless they have come down. We still have an access problem. 30 Million People uninsured. Serious quality problems. At the dont rise to the top ten in the top 20 different criteria for performance in health today. So, on those three challenges, we find very little disagreement. The causes are a
And i could not do what i did without her, so thank you to senator mcconnell, mr. Leader thank you. Its been an honor to serve in his body. I will have more to say next week in my Farewell Speech but i did not want this day to go by without expressing my appreciation. Thank you. Today former Senate Majority trent lott and former democratic leader tom daschle talked about issues in congress including the Affordable Care act, immigration policy, the eric garner decision and the need for bipartisanship in congress. This event was hosted by the Christian Science monitor. Its about an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. Thanks for coming everyone. David cook for the Christian Science monitor. Our guest this morning are affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center. They are cofounder tom daschle senior fellow trent lott and senior president jason grew me and then Senate Majority leader daschle was a guest speaker at bud sperlings 3240 and 41st and final breakfast