House Speaker Paul Ryan met with members of the conservative movement to plot the next moves after the defeat of his plan to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act last week.
Ryan met with 13 conservative leaders for a huddle Thursday morning on how to get the conservative agenda through Congress. He said the defeat of the American Health Care Act was a setback, but it’s time to keep going.
“I asked leaders of the conservative movement here in America to come today to talk about how we move forward, and how we advance our principles,” Ryan said. “We believe in the principles of conservatism. We believe in liberty and free markets. We believe in life, the Constitution. These are important principles that we have an historic opportunity to make good on.”
Ryan met with: Doug Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum; Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice; Matt Schlapp of the American Conservative Union; Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform; Dan Weber of the Association of Mature American Citizens; Tom Schatz of the Citizens Against Government Waste; Ryan Ellis of the Conservative Reform Network; Ralph Reed of the Faith and Freedom Coalition; Grace-Marie Turner from the Galen Institute; Darla St. Martin of the National Right to Life Committee; Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union; Karen Kerrigan of the Small Business Entrepreneurship Council; and Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List.
Ryan said those leaders would give the right advice on how to keep pressing his agenda in the House.
“We had a setback last week, but we’re not going to let that get us down,” Ryan said. We’re going to talk about how we move forward and advance this agenda and truly seize this historic opportunity we have in front of us to improve people’s lives and make a difference and advance these conservative principles.”
