House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., defended congressional Republicans' health care bill from conservative criticism Wednesday night, telling Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that "all House Republicans participated" in drafting the legislation. "We spent a year working on this plan," Ryan told host Tucker Carlson. This is the legislative text of that plan that we ran in 2016 on what we would replace ObamaCare with." Ryan added that the plan was modeled after legislation proposed by then-Rep. Tom Price, now secretary of Health and Human Services. When pressed, Ryan told Carlson that "12 Freedom Caucus members were the co-sponsors of that bill as recently as December."

Source: Fox News March 09, 2017 04:30 UTC