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Speaker Ryan unconfirmed for second term

Current Speaker of the House, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin refused to comment on Sunday regarding whether he plans to run for a second term as Speaker. The representative was pressured into the position in October, but says now that he’s been enjoying it “more than I thought I would.”

“I just haven’t been thinking about it,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I stepped into the breach, stepped up when I had a duty and an obligation to do so.”

“I’m excited about the potential. I’m excited about the opportunity. I feel blessed and honored to have this position,” he added.

Ryan leaped the first major hurdle in his Speakership on Friday when Congress passed their government-spending bill.

“I don’t like the process, but it is the process I inherited,” he said of budget deliberations. “Everybody knows that I walked into the Speakership seven weeks ago with this process already in place, with its cake already baked.”

“I went to work to make the best of this process to get some good wins for conservatives, like lifting the oil export ban for the first time in 40 years,” he said. “Getting permanency on tax policy. Getting some good riders about the IRS so the IRS can’t meddle in politics.”

Paul Ryan has said that the House will vote to defund both Planned Parenthood and ObamaCare when Congress returns to session in January.

“We will be able to get that on the president’s desk, because we found a way to get around the filibuster in the Senate,” he said.

“So we are more effective in our ObamaCare and Planned Parenthood policy, to zero those out. And that’s going to the president’s desk.”