Speaker Ryan: Don't wait for a GOP nominee on policy

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, said one of the major lessons he learned as his party's vice presidential nominee in 2012 is not to wait until the summer before an election to begin proposing ideas.

"If you wait until late summer, end of summer, to then roll out what you believe in and what your agenda is, I think it's too late. So that's why we're going to go early," Ryan said in an interview that aired on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday.

Among the issues he said the GOP should propose are an alternative to Obamacare and ideas to help get people out of poverty. Last week Congress passed a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act using an obscure budgetary process, although it is certain to receive a presidential veto that will be difficult to override. They have not passed a bill that would replace the healthcare law with something else.