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As you ve heard from your previous guest, paul has worked with everybody on some issue. this we re year we had the trade bill. paul sat down with every group across the entire congress to see, you know, what their concerns were about the trade bill and then when we had a consensus bill, we moved forward on it. and that s how he works. that s kind of the regular order of the process that he talked about today in the ways and means committee that he chaired that trade bill came out unanimously. that s a good model how we re going go ing to going forward. the process changes, those are things people get together, we ll have discussions, we ll vote on it, as a conference. what would you like to see? at this point we haven t had a lot of discussion yet, so i don t know what changes we might need. i think you want to make sure that changes you have retain the essence of the house. we don t want to be the senate. ....
In the senate one person can stop everything and you don t get anything done. in the house, we like to we are the majority party, we want to be able to bring good ideas that we have to the floor and advance tax reform, one of the things paul has talked about. he s been out there leading on a path to prosperity, opportunity for all that he s talked about toy. but some interesting kind of areas that you know he worked for jack kemp, empower america, he s very much about going places that republicans don t ordinarily go. he campaigned he has a district like mine, only a plus two republican district, he goes to everybody, gets good policy ideas, synthesizes them and moves forward. build up a coalition. do you do you think it s appropriate to sometimes have to do some deals behind closed doors rather than dole them in the public? obviously complicated ....
Compromised budget bill you voted for that got through the house, going to get through the senate and the president s going to sign? do you think sometimes you have no choice but to do it behind closed doors because if you did it in public it would kill the compromise? we all want to be part of the process and see things. paul did talk about he wants to have things go through the committee process, be more open, see what s out there. but you re always going to have staff working on these things, you have the bills, we d like have them longer before we vote on them, have everybody be able to make their suggestions but at a certain point you ve got to be able to move forward and can t endlessly work on thing like the budget so we re not shutting down the government. he understands. that is how we did the trade bill. there were amendments. but some things that we couldn t agree on but we had a consensus to move forward. quickly, ever had a conversation with dave bratt, ....
We are back with our first read on on politics this morning. the jeb bush campaign notifying now staffers that they are cutting salaries across the board. this news just in. and with the iowa caucus 100 days away, democratic candidates and thousands of their supporters will descend on des moines this weekend for the annual jefferson jackson dinner, one of the most important political events in the democratic primary process. more on that in a moment. but first, a look back at the week in politics. first, we need to move from an opposition party to being a proposition party. we need to update our house rules. i cannot and i will not give up my family time. if you can agree to these requests, and if i can truly be a unifying figure, then i will gladly serve. i m a paul ryan fan. i don t agree with him on much of what he does. i believe we re out of time, the time necessary to mount a ....
This, this does not sound like a guy who wants the job. he s got a moment of leverage. do you sense paul ryan actually wants the job? it s a good question. i think he s been somebody. what would you say to your son when he asks you years in advance why you turned down the job? he was doing this for god, his country. all that being said, what ryan is doing is leveraging the incredible desire for him to be speaker by essentially crafting the job in the way he sees it best suited to him. i think that s difficult for some people to take. because the entire push has been to weaken the speakership and the committee process and while ryan has said he is for changing ....