Abortion bill. The senate will debate a bill reauthorizes the fisa act. Watch the senate live on cspan2. House speaker paul ryan, thank you for coming. Members of your party are saying the changes need to be made. Speaker ryan it is good to be back with you. Anytime you do massive legislation like this, this is the biggest rewrite of the tax code in more than 31 years, the last big rewrite was 1986. This is more comprehensive than that. We knew all along, when you had such a massively right of tax laws, you are going to have some technical changes that will need to occur. For instance, we rewrote our entire International Tax system on how we treat internation economics in cash flows. We knew that would need some revising. So far, not a lot really needs to be done, other than i would call small things. No republican support for the Affordable Care act, no democrat support for this bill. Speaker ryan i was surprised that not a single democrat voted for this. I think they will be regretfu
They need to be some fixes. What changes need to be made. Speaker ryan it is good to be back with you. Anytime you do massive legislation like this, this is the biggest rewrite of the tax code in more than 31 years, the last big rewrite was 1986. This is more comprehensive than that. We knew all along, when you had such a massive rewrite of tax laws, you are going to have some technical changes that will need to occur. For instance, we rewrote our entire International Tax system on how we treat internation economics in cash flows. We knew that would need some revising. So far, not a lot really needs to be done, other than i would call small things. No republican support for the Affordable Care act, no democrat support for this bill. Is that the new norm . Speaker ryan i was surprised that not a single democrat voted for this. I think they will be regretful of that, because in 20 days, you have seen two million families, two million workers getting raises and bonuses. You are seeing all
Update on immigration policy negotiations. At 8 30 eastern, holly harris of the Justice Action Network on prison sentencing and reform. And at 9 00, Darrell Burnett of Education Week on the failing infrastructure in u. S. Schools. Host good morning, this is friday, january 12, and welcome to washington journal. As you can imagine, reaction is pouring in from congress and elsewhere to the president s comments on immigrants from certain countries, something we heard about yesterday afternoon. We want to get to the president s comments on immigration, talk about daca and the immigration issue. If you are a democrat, please. All 202 7488000 republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. And we have a special fourth line to recent immigrants to the u. S. 202 7488003 202 7488002 202 7488003 202 7488003. Front page of the Washington Post. This first reported on the president s comments late yesterday afternoon. The headline todays piece said immigration offer on socalled dreamers fails,
International economics in cash flows. That we knew that would need some revising. So far, though not a lot really , needs to be done, other than i would call small things. Steve no republican support for the Affordable Care act, no democrat support for this bill. Is that the new norm . Secretary perry i hope not. I was surprised that not a single democrat voted for this. I think they will be regretful of that, because in 20 days, you have seen two million families, two million workers getting raises and bonuses. You are seeing all these raises being announced, you are seeing Electricity Companies announcing that they are lowering rates as a consequence. In milwaukee, we have a big insurance company. A couple of months ago, they said because of the tax laws, they were going to move to bermuda. Now, they are staying in milwaukee, staying an american company. You are seeing stories like that businesses staying here, businesses expanding, investing in capital, workers getting wage increas
House speaker paul ryan, thank you for joining us. Lets talk about the tax bill. Members of your party are saying there need to be some fixes, some revisions to the bill in 2018. What changes if any need to happen . Speaker ryan it is good to be back with you. It has been a while. Anytime you do massive legislation like this, this is the biggest rewrite of the tax code in more than 31 years, the last big rewrite was 1986. This is more comprehensive than that. So we knew all along, when you had such a massive rewrite of tax laws, you are going to have some technical changes that will need to occur. For instance, we rewrote our entire International Tax system on how we treat International Economics and cash flows. We knew that would need some revising. So far, not a lot really needs to be done, other than i would call small things. No republican support for the Affordable Care act, no democrat support for this bill. Is that the new norm . Speaker ryan i hope not. I was surprised that not