One of those conservative priorities -- defunding Planned Parenthood -- is not among the riders included in the giant appropriations bill, but Ryan said Republicans "are maintaining all of our pro-life protections, including the Hyde amendments; and we are making cuts to the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) program." Ryan on Wednesday discussed some of the policy riders that did make it into the final draft of the omnibus bill that will come up for a vote on Friday: "We are lifting the government's 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. This is a big win for American jobs and our energy industry. It's a big win for our manufacturers and for our foreign policy.
"We are increasing military spending. We are tightening security requirements under the nation's visa waiver program. We are permanently authorizing the critical health care benefits for our 911 first responders in a very fiscally responsible way. "We are preventing a taxpayer bailout of Obamacare’s risk corridors program. (The program compensates health insurers that sign up sicker-than-expected patients and incur high costs.) "We are freezing most IRS operations and stopping the IRS from suppressing civic participation in 501(c)(4) organizations. (We have found that the IRS meddles in the political affairs of people. They turned the IRS into a political weapon in 2012, and we're not goin to let them turn the IRS into a political weapon again," Ryan explained later.)
"We are maintaining all of our pro-life protections, including the Hyde Amendments; and we are making cuts to the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) program. "In addition to all of that, we are ending Washington's days of extending tax policies one year at a time." Ryan said that "certainty in the tax code" will create more jobs. "I think this is one of the biggest steps toward a rewrite of our tax code that we've made in many years, and will help us start a pro-growth, bold tax reform agenda in 2016."
Ryan made it clear he "inherited" the omnibus appropriations process," and he "played the cards that we were dealt...as best as we possibly good." He said he looks forward to returning Congress to "regular order," which means doing appropriations bills one at a time in committee. "That is what 2016 is going to be about." Ryan called the omnibus bill a "bipartisan compromise," and he said he expects bipartisan votes on both the spending bill and the tax extender bill later this week. "I have no reason to believe we're going to have a (government) shutdown," Ryan said.
A news release from Ryan's office explains the riders in greater detail, as follows:
More so because we're running against one.
nice vent...feel better now ..?
