Paul Ryan Would Like to See More FBI Disclosures

Wednesday during the broadcast of Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated talk radio program, U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said he would like to see “more disclosure” from FBI Director James Comey regarding the bureau’s reopened investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server while secretary of state.

“I understand why [Comey] did what he did, because imagine if he didn’t, and we found out after the fact that he was sitting on this before the election,” he said. “So I clearly understand why he did what he did.

“Hillary Clinton has no one to blame but herself, and she and Republicans are saying if you’ve got something you’ve got cleared, put it out there. So yeah, I think if he’s gone through the process that he needs to go through to vet evidence, and he’s got it, he should do it. I do agree with that. More disclosure is better, clearly.”

Hewitt also asked the speaker about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s call for a special session of Congress to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare. He said the House GOP is ready with its “Better Way” proposal:

“We have a six-point plan that we’re running on, which is showing what we can accomplish in 2017 with a unified Republican government. And the point I was trying to make yesterday, because I early voted for our nominee, for Donald. I early voted for my Senator, Ron Johnson, and obviously for Congress so that we can keep a unified Republican government. A unified Republican government, and really only a unified Republican government can get you a replacement for Obamacare, which is, as you say, absolutely failing.

“The actuaries call it a death spiral. So you go to better.gop, and you’ll see our full-scale replacement plan for Obamacare—patient-centered health care with more choices, with more competition, lower prices. You get to buy what you want. You get to buy what your family needs. And we make competition, free market competition, is what will keep providers accountable and bring competition into the system instead of this government monopoly bureaucracy, which is giving us these massive, staggering price increases.

“Kaiser tells us that about, almost a third of the counties in America have only one choice. That’s really not a choice. That’s a monopoly. And you predictably have these massive price increases. The law is absolutely failing. They literally call it a death spiral, the actuaries do, and that’s what is occurring.

“Here’s what we proved this year in Congress already. People don’t seem to remember this, but we, House Republicans, Senate Republicans, we put a bill on President Obama’s desk. We used a tool called reconciliation which they could not filibuster, and we put a repeal bill of Obamacare on President Obama’s desk, along with repealing our funding for Planned Parenthood. We put that on President Obama’s desk.

“Now clearly, he vetoed it. But what we demonstrated that with just the simple majorities we have in the House and the Senate, we can put these things on his desk. Imagine if we had a Republican president.

“This is what Donald Trump is talking about. A special session, we’ve already proven this year with a Republican House and a Republican Senate we can have that special session, and we can repeal, and we can replace Obamacare. This is not just a vague promise. This is clearly an action plan that we have.”