Speaker Ryan: In 2017 Well Deliver Results

Speaker Ryan Press Office 2016 was a busyand productiveyear for House Republicans. At a press conference with other Republican leaders Speaker Ryan discussed 2016 and the #BetterWay thats on the horizon:

At the start of this year we as House Republicans made a number of commitments to the American people. First we pledged to open up the processto 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 weve done just that: 21st Century Cures. The National Defense Authorization Bill. The water resources bill. These initiatives all went through the committees. They are all bipartisan. And they are all House-Senate agreements. That is how we should do things here. Its important because thats exactly how things should work. The most overarching thing we set out to dogoing all the way back to our retreat in Baltimore almost a year agowas 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 dutya moral obligationto offer our fellow citizens a better way forward. And thats exactly what we did. We did not just check the box to win an election or we didnt do this so I could just promote a websitebetter.gopa 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. 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. Relief from Obamacarethis law is hurting families and its 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. 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. So 2016 was about raising our gaze. 2017 is going to be about doing big things for our country.