House GOP Not Willing to Vote on ‘Big Ideas’

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) “has said he wants to ‘go big on ideas’ in 2016 to give his party concrete policies to run on and voters an alternative to what Democrats are offering. But those ideas might just remain, well, ideas,” Politico reports.

“Senior House Republican aides and lawmakers say they do not plan to hold votes on many of the agenda items the party plans to unveil — such as a health care plan to replace Obamacare, or tax reform — because of a tight legislative calendar over the next few months and the reality that none of the bills would be signed by the president, anyway.”