This week is tom price of georgia. He is a doctor, and a longtime friend and confidant of the new bigger of the house, paul ryan. Let me introduce our two reporters who will be asking questions. New tower. And 10 a daniel, the first question, go ahead please. Mr. Newhauser should the house do more . Rep. Price as you say, everyones house and prayers thoughts and prayers go out to the victims in paris. The real challenge, the real problem, is that the United States does not have a strategy. The administration has not defined a strategy. They refused doing gauge in this issue in a way that would make it to where we would actually defeat isis. What the house did this past the was to say, because Homeland Security secretary and say that wethe fbi cannot be certain that people coming in on the Refugee Program are coming here and not having any association with terrorist groups they are not able to say that. Since they are not able to say that, halt the program, and put it in a posture of making it certain that they can vat these individuals in a proper way. Mr. Newhauser obama says he will veto this, what would be the next step . Rep. Price what the American People need to ask themselves is what does it mean when the president vetoes a piece of legislation that is solely for the purpose of protecting the American People . Troubling time. I call on the president , as does all of our conference to recognize the concerned that the American People have about this issue. This is not childs play. Very seriousy, issue. To have the president say, even in spite of his Homeland Security secretary, saying they are not able to appropriately vet these individuals they that is note republican senators or republican governors, that is his Homeland Security secretary. As the president , he will not listen to that, and continue to allow people into this nation that he cannot with any degree of certainty say they do not have any ties to terrorism this is a very troubling event. Mr. Newhauser some of your members have been calling on choking down funding unless they can properly vet refugees, or choke off funding to admit refugees at all. You think that is a wise idea, when it could risk Something Like a Government Shutdown . Responsibility is represent the American People. The calls right now to our office are running roughly 1000 to one making certain that no one is meant into this country that is not properly vetted. You have 30 governors saying that they do not believe it is appropriate to have refugees resettled into their states, republican and democratic governors. Any way that we can accomplish of the American People are, and also our responsibility of making sure the nation is safe and secure, and the American People are protected. Any opportunity to do that is the right opportunity. Beingylor as you know, chairman of the Budget Committee is a busy season, and then there is a followup season. A few weeks ago, there was a vote on a mini bipartisan budget deal that took care of some of these automatic budget cuts that trouble both pentagon hawks and democrats. The president , who was more money on domestic programs, has some spending cuts that are quite dicey. You voted against it two years ago, and voted for something, put together by your predecessor that followed the same concept. What were you objecting to . Rep. Price i think the Important Message to deliver to the listeners and viewers in as aprogram is that republican conference over the past five years, we have done a remarkable job an in holding Discretionary Spending level. The problem is that is one third of the federal budget. Two thirds of the federal budget that continues to grow in the automatic in mandatory spending programs that continue to eat up more and more of hardworking taxpayer dollars. In this instance, we believe, i believe, the house budget resolution that we passed actually had more money for defense that was brought forward in this bill that was passed a couple of weeks ago. We believe it is appropriate to put resources where they are most effective in our federal government. To be tied to increasing money spendingiscretionary safely in order to get more money for defense, which is what the president demanded, is a bridge too far from my perspective. Not asht that it was responsible as it could have been. I liked it to continue to push the budget resolution that House Republicans passed in the spring. Mr. Taylor those of us who follow the budget see the same thing year after year. You put together a budget that tries to set a blueprint to do all kinds of things it would do tax reform, also as of things. It alwaysseems like goes up on the shelf, you never follow up with tax reform. As far as i know, you have never drafted or publicly released a medicare reform bill. You had kind of a filibuster proof device that allows you to send bills to the present without any democratic support. Instead of using that to take on the budget, you used it to take obamacare, and go after funding for planned parenthood. Next year, if you elect a republican president , will you be able to fulfill these promises that you never really tried to implement . Rep. Price i think so, and i think we will. Two points. One, i share the frustrations that you articulated that we seem to pass a budget full of , itsorts of great things balances within 10 years, doesnt raise taxes, saves over 5 trillion, outlines a way to save and strengthen medicare and on,caid, and then we move which is precisely why the Budget Committee started a restoring the trust of all americans be ago a of all visibility americans. Disabilities and thosethens and secures spending programs, and also creates a Critical Mass of individuals who will demand of ir representatives that they are accountable. We will spend more than what we have spent on defense, education, everything. That is unacceptable to me. Second, i cannot tell you how excited i am about the new speaker. Yes, it is a good friend of my, but it is an individual that understands putting forth positive policy solutions, which is why i affirmed your question, because i am sure that he will put for those positive policy solutions. Mr. Newhauser following on the budget question and the syrian refugee crisis, the fbi would have to implement some new vetting process. They say that would probably cost some money. Where would you find that money to up the fbi budget . Rep. Price i have all the confidence in the world that there is money in the executive branch that would more than the need to a college that. The question is will this president make securing this nation and protecting the American People a priority or not . Currently, there is no confidence that he is securing this nation. That is a very troubling place to be. Mr. Newhauser you touched a bit on how excited you are for speaker ryan. You are in his advisory council, if you will, of different groups that meet on just about a weekly basis with him. What do you think that group will accomplish that was not able to be accomplished during speaker boehners reign . Rep. Price i think one of the challenges that we have had is a lack of communication. When you have a lack of communication, and what has been described as a topdown decisionmaking tree previously, there is a lot of trust that needs to be built up. The way you build up trust is communicate with each other. Speaker ryan has done an incredible job in his short tenure and trying to pull everyone in in our conference, in the various groups of our conference that have different perspectives on different issues to make certain that everyone understands that their voice is being heard that the issues are being listened to and considered to adjust bigger challenges. It really is an exciting, new day. Mr. Newhauser just this past week, we saw a bill come to the floor at a lastminute handed down by leadership with no amendments, and all republicans voted for it. What is different now than when this happened in the same way under boehner . Rep. Price you are referring to the refugee bill . Mr. Newhauser correct. Rep. Price this has been worked on for months. The fact of the matter is this is a dynamic process. The rules of engagement for the terrorists changed on friday night in paris. They attacked innocent people, the largest attack on the french nation cents world war ii. We cannot, with our oldest ally being attacked by a terrorist attack, sit back and allow for nothing to happen over a period of time. Is absolutely imperative that we respond and answer the challenge of the french people. We stand with france. We urge our senate colleagues, when they come back, to get to work, to address this issue, if they believe the house has responded appropriately, pass the house bill. We past with the super withstand at would president ial veto. You brought up the senate. Knowing what you know about speaker ryan, how would he Different Senate than banner day . Rep. Price again, i think it is communication. Allow them to take up the set piece of legislation and act on it, whether it is on health care, National Security, energy policy, tax reform, the senate can take up that legislation or pass something they believe is most appropriate. Then, we come to conference, and iron out the differences. The difference you will see is lookone and tenure being forward by the speaker which is positive, optimistic, upbeat, that says, a lot of challenges, yes, but there are positive solutions to address it. What im hearing from you is speaker ryan has built up a lot of goodwill, he has Peoples TrustGoing Forward, however, before you leave washington for the holidays, you have to deal with trillionive 1. 1 spending bill. You said you have to get your hands dirty with things like appropriations. The history has been there are a lot of compromises, the president always does well in , democrats do well, and it has been a frustrating process for a lot of rankandfile republicans. What are your expectations as to how much better or whether speaker ryan would get Better Outcomes . Or, will this be cleaning up the old business before you look forward . Rep. Price some of it is cleaning up the activity to date. You cannot saddle speaker ryan was where we are right now. What gives me confidence and whatism for the future is he says is if we are to move forward next year, to get our appropriations bill done, make certain we pass all of them, and get them to the senate so they are able to act on them as well, and get bills to the president s desk. I believe he ryan has said this is not the way he would want this to occur. Time is growing short, and it is important we get these were this work done. Im hopeful we will see a spending piece of legislation that has more good than bad, and moves us in a positive direction. Im hopeful we will do that before christmas eve. Have,s the challenge we to get the work done. Mr. Taylor theres also hope to do a longterm reauthorization of highway programs. You probably noticed that when the house passed its version, and replacedoffset it with a phony offset. Youd a letter yesterday, or the day before, which basically said, it is worth 59 million, but does not really do anything to the deficit. Will you let that stand . Rep. Price this is troubling. Often times, when we have pieces of legislation that come through, and you have to figure out how to pay for the legislation that is moving its way through congress, some of them you are comfortable with, actually reducing spending, and prioritizing it in an appropriate way, and some of it gives you pause. This gives me pause. It is not how i would prefer to do it. I think how i would have preferred to do it is the way we redoing it in the means. Ommittee the infrastructure in this nation needs significant attention. A longterm highway bill is absolutely a priority. Capacity on ased highway system. The average worker in my her car sits in his or over 50 hours per year simply going to and from work. That is a long, long time. In 50orry, 50 weeks weeks, they spend more than one week of time in their car, which is just outrageous. Stream that isng willble, and hopefully we get there at some point. Mr. Taylor what is the word . Will that stand . Rep. Price it is an conference right now, and they will work through it. My understanding is they will have it done by the time this errors, and we will know what it looks like then. Host i want to go back to the deadline of the big spending bill. There are still a number of policy issues that could be potential landmines for some of thatconference members might trigger another Government Shutdown. How confident are you that the Communications Group that the speaker has set up will be able to negotiate with rankandfile they are passing about, like the planned parenthood bill and the refugee issue . Rep. Price i think it is less about negotiation, and pulling people into have them be part of the decisionmaking that goes on. This is really a pivotal time house, this government, as we reach these spending decisions, to make certain how we fund the government that we are already six weeks into. Listening to people, seeing where their priorities are, knowing that no one is going to get all that they want, and you want to make certain that the highest Priority Issues are addressed. I think that is what we will be able to do. Mr. Newhauser would you vote for an omnibus bill that does not deal with the syrian refugee issue . Rep. Price i think you have to look at the full package. Those are things that i think need to be addressed, as you know, in our budget. We appealed obamacare. We did so, not just because of the numbers, but because i can tell you, as a physician, it is bad for health care in this country. Quality health care is decreasing because of obamacare. You have states that are ending coops. Theyhave gone bankrupt or are struggling. You have Major Insurance Companies realizing that it does not work, what we said would not be able to function, is not surprise,ng surprise. They are pulling out their participation in obamacare, which means patients have fewer options to purchase. The quality is going down, they are losing choices. This is a very, very troubling program. I will not rest in my political in denver until we make it certain that we move towards patient centered health care, and not washington, d. C. Mr. Taylor i thought we would maybe get your thoughts on the president ial race. You have two front runners in your party who have not Held Elected Office that are viewed with a lot of suspicion by unquoteof the quote establishment. On the other hand, you have secretary clinton, whose members are not that impressed whose thatnumbers are not impressive. Are you nervous that you will put up a nominee that will be affordable even if you are up against a vulnerable democrat . Faithrice i have great and confidence and the American People. I know their frustration of the semester asian, and the overreach of this administration, the overreach of the democratic policies, are not where they want them to be. I also have great confidence that any individual on the republican platform trying for our nomination will do a much better job than those on the democratic stage. Mr. Taylor who do you like . Rep. Price we are talking to every Sale Campaign about issues, particularly health care. Speed voters to be up to to get the Health Care System moving and a better direction. We have not made a decision yet. Mr. Newhauser if donald trump becomes the republican nominee, that is someone you would and or struggle rep. Price i am wholly republicanof the nominee because i said, any one of those individuals would do a better job running this country, getting our country back on track, solving the challenges that we have, and making certain that the world knows america will lead again. Where we find ourselves is what the world looks like when america refuses to leave. The world is in a less safe place when th american backs lead. Not i believe the world will understand that there is a significant difference. Mr. Taylor when donald trump is in front of a crowd and says he out ofmb the blank syria, that does not give you pause . I went been present does not know what is going on in certain regions of the world, that does not give you pause to go rep. Price . Commentse there are made by everything will candidate, including yours truly, that one wishes they could take back. Whether this tax policy, energy policy, what republicans understand and appreciate is that you cannot have they, successful citizens realize their dreams when you have a big, overreaching federal government. The two are mutually inconsistent with each other. What i believe is going to happen is the American People will recognize that whoever the nominee is, it is someone who will get this country back on track. Host two minutes. Final questions . Mr. Newhauser what do you make of the trend and the republican party, particularly in the president ial contest . Way do see elected governors, with conservative track records, dropping out of the race, getting traction, and you have a notle of folks who are elected officials, who do not have that much of a track record leadershipexecutive at the top of the pack . What does that say about your party, about the electorate right now . Saysprice i think what it is the anger and frustration and concerned that the American People have about what is going on here in washington is real and palpable. I have heard it for years. Ive tried to communicate it to my colleagues here in washington that this anger and frustration is correctly arrived at. They look to washington, and is a system that has not worked. It has not worked because the system does not work, it has not worked because we have not followed the system. You h