Speaker Ryan Tours Everett Boeing Plant, Speaks To About 100 Employees

Today Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan took a tour of the Boeing Plant in Everett, Washington and then held a town hall with about 100 employees on the factory floor alongside the 787 assembly line.

Speaker Ryan was in Everett as part of a west coast visit to promote the Republican Tax Reform Plan. Accompanied by Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg and other executives Ryan toured the plant stopping to chat with workers at the 777 body-join area where the wings are attached to the midsection of the airplane.

That area is changing and going from a static line with permanent jigs to a moving line that will reduce the number of crane moves from ten to three and give workers better access and a faster process.

After meeting the team of 777 workers, Ryan toured the interior of an El Al 787 in final assembly. He and Muilenburg then took seats at a small platform to answer questions from about 100 invited employees.

Ryan said he wants to unleash economic growth by lowering the corporate tax rate in the United States to at least level with the rate in other countries and then lower it further for companies who build goods here.

He also said the Republicans want to simplify the personal income tax code and have just three levels of taxation instead of seven and an income tax form you can fill out on a post card.

Calling regulations as bad as taxes, Ryan talked about how congress has been using the Congressional Review Act to advance their agenda.

(By simple majority vote, the Congressional Review Act (“CRA”) can overturn any regulation that affects a third-party. The CRA is not subject to the filibuster and provides the majority with a vast deregulatory agenda with a high chance of success).

Ryan said prior to this year the act had only been used once since being signed into law by President Clinton in 1996. So far this year it has been used 14 times and Ryan says Congress is readying a 15th.

Ryan never uttered the word Trump today but did talk about how the President needs to “lead by example” and “control your own actions”. He did note the two had different speaking styles.

He said the most important thing was for the President to succeed in passing the agenda Republicans have been working on since 2016 called “A Better Way”. Ryan answered questions for about 45 minutes and then conducted some TV media interviews before leaving.

It is not known if he saw the fifteen anti-tax-cut protesters and a giant inflatable rooster with a Donald Trump haircut staged at the corner of 75th and Seaway Boulevard on the east entrance to the Boeing plant.