"We are wiping the slate clean:" New Speaker Paul Ryan ready to clean House from ground up

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Paul Ryan has officially replaced John Boehner as speaker of the House of Representatives, and on Sunday, November 1st, he appeared on all five Sunday news shows, including: "Fox News Sunday," CNN's "State of the Union," CBS' "Face the Nation," NBC's "Meet the Press" and ABC's "This Week" to talk about his mission to clean up the House from the ground up.

Paul Ryan on CNN's "State of the Union"

"This is where people come to serve their country, and if you don`t like the direction in which the country is headed, then you have an obligation to the people of this country that sent you here," Ryan said.

Although he appeared on different channels Sunday morning, the theme of Ryan's message was the same.

"It`s a new day. We are wiping the slate clean," Ryan said.

As he replaces Boehner as House speaker, Ryan is vowing to do things much differently.

"I want to have a more participatory process," Ryan said.

Paul Ryan on "Fox News Sunday"

With the GOP in disarray, Ryan says he wants to focus on fixing it.

"We need to get Congress working like it was intended to by the founders -- a bottom-up consensus-driven process," Ryan said.

Ryan says it's imperative to unify the Republican Party, which he feels has been bold on tactics, but not on policy.

"We have to be an opposition party, a proposition party, and that`s where building ideas come from. We have been too timid for too long around here," Ryan said.

Ryan says now is the time for the party to lay out bold, alternative ideas.

"How do you overhaul the tax code? What does a replacement of Obamacare look like? How do you effectively attack the root causes of poverty to help people build their lives? How do you get economic growth? Those are the things people are hungry for and that is what I think we need to offer the country," Ryan said.

Paul Ryan and family

It is a task Ryan says he's ready to tackle -- while not giving up his family time.