Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) rejected the notion of a civil war brewing within the GOP Tuesday on Bloomberg TV.
The House Budget Committee Chairman said he remembers what a "civil war" within the Republican party actually looks like, recounting his experience working for Bill Bennett and Jack Kemp in the early 1990s:
PETER COOK: Is there a civil war within the Republican Party right now?
PAUL RYAN: No there isn't. There is not. And the criticism - I've been involved in civil wars, back when I worked for Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett in the early '90s, you had a civil war within the Republican party back those in those days. These days, we all basically agree on the same foundation principles. It's just the small differences where there are small details in between where there are differences of opinion. We believe in limited government, economic freedom, all of those things that made this country great, upward mobility, absolutely yes. So we don't have the kind of infighting that you may have seen back in the early '90s.
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