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Well that was unexpected. It's wide open now.
McCarthy withdraws from speaker race, vote postponed
Published October 08, 2015
5FoxNews.com
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the front-runner to replace John Boehner, stunned his Republican colleagues on Thursday by withdrawing from the race -- a decision that will postpone the vote for speaker.
Fox News is told McCarthy simply said it was not his time. McCarthy faced opposition from some conservative members and groups, but was thought to have more than enough support to win the party's nomination in the vote initially set for Thursday.
It's unclear what specifically made McCarthy change his mind and drop out.
The shocking decision came shortly after House Republicans met to select their nominee for speaker. McCarthy was running against Reps. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Daniel Webster, R-Fla., before he dropped out.
He gave no indication of dropping out earlier in the day. "It's going to go great," McCarthy said Thursday morning.
Webster, though, has won favor with the conservative wing of the party. Wednesday evening, the House Freedom Caucus -- with its 30-40 members -- decided it would back Webster as a bloc.
Whoever ultimately is chosen by Republicans would need to muster an absolute majority, of roughly 218 members, to win in the full floor vote, which had been set for Oct. 29 originally.
The speaker's race already has seen several curveballs since Boehner suddenly announced his retirement at the end of the month and McCarthy swiftly positioned himself as the presumptive next in line.
Shortly after announcing his candidacy, McCarthy was seen to stumble in a Fox News interview where he appeared to link Hillary Clinton's dropping poll numbers to the congressional Benghazi committee. His comments fueled Democratic charges that the committee is merely political, which GOP leaders deny.
Amid the backlash over McCarthy's Benghazi remarks, Chaffetz entered the leadership race over the weekend.
Republicans have nearly 250 members in the House and on paper have the numbers to win against the Democrats' nominee, likely Nancy Pelosi. But if the winning Republican nomineecomes out with a tally short of 218, he or she will have to spend the next several weeks trying to rally support to get to that number.
In a curious development, Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., also sent a letter to House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., urging a full vetting of all leadership candidates to avoid a repeat of 1998, when the conference selected then-Rep. Bob Livingston in November to succeed outgoing House Speaker Newt Gingrich. It then emerged Livingston had been conducting an affair. Jones asked that any candidate who has committed "misdeeds" withdraw.
Asked by FoxNews.com to elaborate, Jones said he doesn't "know anything" specific about any of the candidates, but, "We need to be able to say without reservation that 'I have nothing in my background that six months from now could be exposed to the detriment of the House of Representatives.'" He said he wants to make sure the candidates have "no skeletons."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/08/mccarthy-withdraws/?intcmp=hpbt1
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Wel that was unexpected. It's wide open now.
Internal pressure on home - after trying to take credit for hilary's servergate polling slide as a result of his highly expensive, zero results Benghazi investigation which is now the longest running investigation in US history...
Plus every time he spoke, he just sounded worse and worse. Making up words. And he wanted to be 2 heartbeats away from the presidency? Give the job to Chaffertz, a real hero, a true conservative with a BRAIN. I've been posting about Chaffertz for years now - the dude had the BALLS to yell for impeachment when most repubs just drank their Jeb Kool-Aid and dismissed the idea.
Mccarthy... ugh, palin all over again.
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We didn’t need Boner 2.0
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Internal pressure on home - after trying to take credit for hilary's servergate polling slide as a result of his highly expensive, zero results Benghazi investigation which is now the longest running investigation in US history...
Plus every time he spoke, he just sounded worse and worse. Making up words. And he wanted to be 2 heartbeats away from the presidency? Give the job to Chaffertz, a real hero, a true conservative with a BRAIN. I've been posting about Chaffertz for years now - the dude had the BALLS to yell for impeachment when most repubs just drank their Jeb Kool-Aid and dismissed the idea.
Mccarthy... ugh, palin all over again.
I'll bet it was rough when you found out she was dead on about just about everything she said. Same with Romney. Even more dead on than her.
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I'll bet it was rough when you found out she was dead on about just about everything she said. Same with Romney. Even more dead on than her.
Right about everything except how to win a fuggin' election. Her and romney both. Sickening that it's 2015, and you're defending a 2008 quarter-wit (palin) and a democrat that ran as a 47% repub in 2012 (Romney).
Shit man, don't you have a robbery-foiling Carson, or maybe a "I'm a dem that hates brown people" Trump to support/defend?
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Please explain this?
I have honestly not seen anything correct about either one of them... You mean Romney said Russia was our biggest enemy? Apparently how the global economy works is lost on a lot of people... Russia included.
You have to be able to hear the dog whistle for idiots in order for it to make sense.
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I'll bet it was rough when you found out she was dead on about just about everything she said. Same with Romney. Even more dead on than her.
The only thing Romney is dead on is his wife :D
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#Truth
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Conservatives Eye the Speakership
Posted on October 9, 2015
by Keith Koffler
Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s shocking decision Thursday to drop out of the race for speaker presents conservatives with a perhaps once-in-a-generation chance to truly seize power in the House.
Having taken Speaker John Boehner’s scalp and now McCarthy’s, too, conservatives are in the driver’s seat, and everybody knows it.
From many accounts, McCarthy, of California, was derailed when some 40 House conservatives declared they would support another candidate, leaving the expected speaker-to-be without the 218 votes he would have needed to win in a full House vote.
That conservative faction is now calling the shots, and it has some clear demands: No speaker will be tolerated who will:
Sit by while millions are spent by business groups to oust conservatives in primaries;
Go behind the caucus’s back to negotiate legacy-buffing budget deals with President Barack Obama;
Refuse to face with the White House over principle, or who quakes at the thought of shutting down the government.
Conservatives want the next speaker to be much more aggressive than Boehner — and, it turns out, McCarthy.
“They want a speaker who is going to go toe-to-toe with this president,” said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council. “They don’t expect to win all the time. But they want them to fight.”
Here is a look at some of the leading possibilities for the top House post, in order of their rankings, by two conservative organizations, Heritage (H) and FreedomWorks (FW), based on votes in the current congressional session. The caucus must choose a candidate before the scheduled full House vote Oct. 29.
Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio H: 96 percent; FW: 100 percent. The chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus has declined to run previously but could change his mind with McCarthy out. Appearing on “The Laura Ingraham Show” on Thursday before McCarthy’s announcement, Jordan said it is vital for the leadership to change. “The case we gotta make is the one the American people are making. When you have 60 percent of your voters — your voters, Republican voters — who think we’ve betrayed them. Not disappointed, not slightly off track — betrayed them. Then we had better figure this out. We had better start standing for the things that we told them we would stand for.”
Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas H: 85 percent; FW: 91 percent. The seven-term congressman previously had taken his name out of the running for speaker. But one congressional aide said Hensarling could potentially be a “bridge” candidate who could unite the various factions of the caucus. The Financial Services Committee chairman has been a sometimes Boehner antagonist and is a former chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee.
Rep. Tom Price of Georgia H: 80 percent; FW: 91 percent. Mentioned as a potential speaker candidate after Boehner’s announced his resignation, he had been locking up support for his planned run for majority leader. With McCarthy now remaining in that role, though, Price could decide to make a move for speaker. He told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Thursday that an interim speaker may be the way to go. “The best course would be for us to select a candidate for Speaker who will serve in that capacity for the next 15 months,” he said in a statement. “This would allow the House to complete the business in a responsible manner, providing ample time for everyone’s voices to be heard, leading into full leadership elections in November of 2016.”
Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas H: 79 percent; FW: 91 percent. The Rules Committee chairman had been running for whip. He could decide to go for the top job instead.
Jason Chaffetz of Utah H: 81 percent; FW: 82 percent. The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee publicly declared himself an underdog when he launched his bid for speaker on Sunday and bluntly admitted that he did not have the votes to win. But that was then. With McCarthy out, Chaffetz’s odds presumably improve somewhat. Still, his bid still must be considered a long shot. The Americans for Legal Immigration political action committee accuses him flip-flopping on the issue of citizenship for illegal immigrants. He told reporters after McCarthy’s withdrawal that he believes it is time for a “fresh start” in Congress, According to USA Today. “That was the whole genesis of my campaign, but we need to have a lot more family discussion, because we need to find somebody that our whole body can unite behind and do what we were elected to do.”
Daniel Webster of Florida H: 77 percent; FW: 73 percent. He had been gearing up for a run against Boehner and now seeks the position on changed political terrain. Webster, a three-term representative and former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, promises to move power from a handful of men and women in the leadership to the rank and file.
Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana H: 60 percent; FW: 73 percent. The current whip, Scalise was another candidate for majority leader. With Boehner retiring and McCarthy bowing out of the race to succeed him, that would leave Scalise next in line based on House leadership hierarchy. Of course, that could also hurt him. Among some representatives, anyone associated with Boehner may be tainted, and Scalise voted on Sept. 30 for a temporary spending measure that kept Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer support intact.
Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin H: 57 percent; FW: 18 percent. He says he doesn’t want it, that he has a young family and wants to be with them, but that didn’t stop him from running for vice president. He was all the buzz after McCarthy dropped out, and the pressure on him is intense to change his mind. Many think he is the best possibility for uniting the caucus, having credibility with both conservatives and the establishment wing. Signs as of Thursday evening were that he is considering a run — or at least seriously mulling it.
The establishment is looking more and more desperate. And there’s an important parallel here to the presidential race. The establishment put all of its chips on McCarthy, and then when it became clear that McCarthy couldn’t get the votes, the establishment is left trying to scramble for Plan B. Meanwhile, that same establishment has put more than $100 million on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who — like McCarthy — is a highly flawed candidate.
Wouldn’t it be smarter for the establishment to change course on Bush now, instead of waiting until it finds itself facing yet another eleventh-hour crisis?
This piece first appeared in PoliZette.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2015/10/09/conservatives-eye-speakership/
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GOP Urging Paul Ryan to Run for Speaker
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Image: GOP Urging Paul Ryan to Run for Speaker (Getty Images)
By Greg Richter
Thursday, 08 Oct 2015
The conservative and establishment wings both like him, but Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan so far has insisted he won't be running for House speaker – even after the abrupt withdrawal of Kevin McCarthy on Thursday.
CNN reports that Ryan could be changing his mind, though he has made no public comment in that direction as of Thursday night.
Among the top names hoping Ryan will run are outgoing Speaker John Boehner and McCarthy himself.
Ryan still has small children at home and returns to Wisconsin every weekend to be with them and his wife. The speaker's job would be much more demanding and time-consuming and might not allow for that.
Also, Ryan enjoys his job as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. He'd have to give that up to become speaker.
"While I am grateful for the encouragement I've received, I will not be a candidate," Ryan said soon after McCarthy's shock announcement that he was dropping out. McCarthy, the current majority leader, was considered the favorite until he bumbled a line on Fox News last week that many took to mean he was saying the Benghazi committee was established to hurt Hillary Clinton's presidential race.
Even before that, McCarthy's support among the tea party wing was weak. He was having trouble getting together the 218 votes needed to secure the speakership.
Ryan, on the other hand, has supporters across the spectrum. He was a volunteer for Boehner's campaign long before he entered politics himself and the two remain friends.
"He's seen as an individual who has broad support across the entire conference. He’s a clear thinker and great communicator,"Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the House Budget Committee, told The Daily Beast.
Benghazi committee chairman Trey Gowdy also is said to be twisting Ryan's arm, but said it might not be easy.
"You cannot sell someone on this, you have to persuade them. And the people who persuade you the most in life are people who you think have your best interests in mind. So that’s why you talk to friends," Gowdy told the Daily Beast. "You have to have a frank, honest conversation about where he is in life and what the expectations for that job are right now."
Rep. David Nunes told Buzzfeed's Tarini Parti that Ryan is "the only path forward at this point."
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/republicans-urge-paul-ryan-run/2015/10/08/id/695386/#ixzz3o5bo29zN
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that'd be a bad move for paul ryan. he can be president in 8 years. the GOP congress is a slow mo dumpster fire. Screw that.
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that'd be a bad move for paul ryan. he can be president in 8 years. the GOP congress is a slow mo dumpster fire. Screw that.
I agree..I wouldn't want to get involved in spending my time fighting with Tea Party sycophants all day long for 8 years until I'm ready to run..and if a Dem wins the presidency, the Repubs won't be able to get anything done again
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Dirty tricks.
DHS investigating Wikipedia edits citing alleged McCarthy affair
Published October 09, 2015
FoxNews.com
The Department of Homeland Security has launched an investigation into reports that someone with a DHS IP address edited Wikipedia pages to include references to an alleged affair involving House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who bowed out of the race for speaker Thursday.
The California Republican stunned the conference with his decision, saying the House needs a "fresh face" to lead and suggesting he could not unite conservatives.
But reports of infidelity on conservative websites hung over the decision, and were cited in apparent revisions to Wikipedia pages.
Washington Free Beacon reporter Lachlan Markay first noted on Twitter that "someone using a DHS IP address" made the edits to Rep. Renee Ellmers' Wikipedia page. The Daily Caller noted a similar edit was made to McCarthy's page, referencing a report by controversial conservative writer Charles Johnson on an alleged affair between the two.
DHS spokeswoman Marsha Catron told Fox News the edits are being investigated.
"DHS has immediately launched an investigation into this serious matter. If it is discovered that a DHS employee, using Government property, is responsible for these alleged actions, immediate and appropriate disciplinary action will be taken," she said in a statement.
Ellmers, in a meeting Friday morning, reportedly thanked fellow Republicans for their support, referencing the rumors. In a statement, Ellmers said: "As someone who has been targeted by completely false accusations and innuendo, I have been moved by the outpouring of support and prayers from my colleagues, constituents and friends. Now I will be praying for those who find it acceptable to bear false witness."
McCarthy also appeared to downplay the reports Thursday, shortly after telling colleagues he was withdrawing from the speaker race.
"No, No. Come on," McCarthy said, when asked about the rumors and a mysterious letter from another colleague.
That letter, sent earlier this week by Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., to House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., urged a full vetting of all leadership candidates to avoid a repeat of 1998, when the conference selected then-Rep. Bob Livingston in November to succeed outgoing House Speaker Newt Gingrich. It then emerged Livingston had been conducting an affair. Jones asked that any candidate who has committed "misdeeds" withdraw.
Pressed repeatedly in interviews by FoxNews.com and Fox News, Jones would not elaborate in any significant detail.
He told FoxNews.com he doesn't think his letter prompted McCarthy to bow out, but also said of his decision: "There's something there that I don't know about."
He hinted, though, his letter was not aimed at the other two candidates running for speaker at the time, Reps. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Daniel Webster, R-Fla. Asked if he had reservations about them, given that his letter called for a leader of "integrity," he told FoxNews.com: "I think they both are men of high integrity. I would have no problem."
Ellmers primary rival Kay Daly referenced the Jones letter in a strange Facebook post after McCarthy dropped out.
The Huffington Post also reported Thursday that McCarthy was sent an email from a conservative activist threatening to reveal an alleged affair.
The subject line reportedly said: "Kevin, why not resign like Bob Livingston?"
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/09/dhs-investigating-wikipedia-edits-citing-alleged-mccarthy-affair/?intcmp=hpbt3
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McCarthy must have some skeletons poorly hidden in his closet. Ryan would be a suitable speaker but if he doesn't hit a home run his opportunity to run for president in the future will be gone.
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it was another repub that accused him of sticking his weiner in the no-fly zone, wasn't it?
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So another person involved now says it was a partisan attack on Clinton and not a unbiased investigation.
::)
The GOP is a joke at this point.
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Webster Backer Jolly: Ryan 'Could Get Unanimous Vote'
Monday, 12 Oct 2015
Florida Congressman David Jolly, an unabashed supporter of Rep. Daniel Webster for Speaker of the House, admitted on Newsmax TV on Monday that only Paul Ryan could get unanimous support to replace John Boehner.
“Paul Ryan is an incredible leader in our party," Jolly said on Newsmax Now. "he's an intellectual giant. He can carry the message on behalf of Republicans. Paul Ryan is one candidate who possibly could get to a unanimous vote in the speaker's race. I don't believe anybody else in Congress can do that today."
House Republicans have been in chaos since current Speaker John Boehner's stunning Sept. 25 announcement that he would step down at the end of October. His top lieutenant, Kevin McCarthy, was expected to replace him, but suddenly backed out last week.
Ryan, a former Republican vice-presidential nominee, has so far resisted calls for him to enter the speaker race. Two others are already in it: Webster and Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who has said he would drop out if Ryan jumps in.
Texas Rep. Bill Flores said Monday he will run for speaker of the House if Ryan, does not run.
"Paul has some very difficult decisions to make," Jolly told Newsmax TV. "Paul cares deeply about being home with his family. The pressure is going to build on Paul Ryan over the next week or two. I joke he should throw a cell phone in Lake Michigan because it's going to be raining a lot until he makes a decision."
With no Ryan in the mix, Jolly said he will continue to support Webster.
“Dan Webster and I have spoken about how we can achieve conservative victories while forever taking off the table the threat of a government shutdown and the leverage the president has when we get to Sept. 30th,” Jolly, a Florida Republican, told Newsmax TV's John Bachman.
“We have failed to legislate in Congress. We will accomplish far more for conservative policy goals if we get back to legislation.
“Dan Webster is the guy to do that. You know what I believe right now? We don't need a speaker to be the face of the party.”
That’s because, Jolly explained, the nation is gearing up for the 2016 presidential election.
“Our nominee will be the face of the party, will be the messenger for the party,” he said.
“We need a speaker of the House that simply governs and achieves results on behalf of the American people by governing.”
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/david-jolly-paul-ryan-daniel-webster-dan-webster/2015/10/12/id/695840/#ixzz3oOv1bS9a
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LOL @ idiots that believed this incompetent fool was ready for such a respected office.
This kind of low standards could give Trump the nomination.
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LOL @ idiots that believed this incompetent fool was ready for such a respected office.
This kind of low standards could give Trump the nomination.
Well, they did give us the Michael Steele experiment too....
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Well, they did give us the Michael Steele experiment too....
Steele was Trump BEFORE Trump was trump lol. He goaded the repubs into believing inept mccain and hapless Palin were awesome choices for presidency. Then he leaves the job after botching his job, and becomes a highly paid MSNBC talking head ;) LMAO, it's teh reverse trump, who was paid 214 million by NBC BEFORE he decided to embarrass the GOP this year.
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Ryan nears decision on speaker’s race as Congress returns
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Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) presides over a committee hearing on Capitol Hill. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
By Robert Costa and Mike DeBonis
October 20, 2015
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is more open than ever to becoming the next House speaker, following a contemplative week at home with his family. But before he makes a final decision, friends say, he will seek assurance from Republican hard-liners that he will have their full support should he win the gavel.
Those discussions will begin Tuesday evening at the Capitol when House Republicans gather for a closed meeting. It is unclear when Ryan, the 45-year-old chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and 2012 vice-presidential nominee, will openly discuss his intentions.
At the top of Ryan’s list, his associates said, is a desire to lead the House GOP as its spokesman and agenda-setter without the threat of revolt from the right, halting a dynamic that has dominated the tumultuous speakership of John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who announced last month that he would leave Congress at the end of October. Another aim would be to delegate some of the job’s travel and fundraising demands so that Ryan could spend enough time with his wife and school-aged children.
“My only caution is that he should go very slow and make sure that the whole conference is coming to him,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R). “Don’t underestimate the degree of getting chewed up. We are not like the Democrats right now. They are relatively cohesive. . . . We are a movement in enormous ferment, with enormous anger and enormous impatience.”
Looming over Ryan’s deliberations is a churning frustration among Republicans nationally about the party’s ability to oppose President Obama and a presidential primary field led by anti-establishment outsiders who have made common cause with the House GOP’s right flank.
Those conservative House members have pushed for a suite of rules changes, ranging from an overhaul of the party’s internal steering committee to a more open process for considering legislation. Ryan, they say, would not be exempt from those demands, which, if adopted, could give the new speaker less control.
Ryan’s allies say his conditions for becoming speaker are likely to include an understanding that he would have a free hand to lead without a constant fear of intraparty reprisals.
“He is more confident that he can put forward conditions that will soothe his convictions and put his mind at ease,” said William J. Bennett, a longtime mentor to Ryan who has spoken with him in recent days.
Peter Wehner, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, said Ryan wants House conservatives to make clear that they would not seek to “cripple him” from the start.
“He doesn’t have a moral obligation to get Republicans out of the rubble they’ve created for themselves,” Wehner said. “Asking for their goodwill is completely reasonable.”
Wehner added that Ryan envisions his possible speakership as one that would be buoyed by his own political capital and shaped by an aggressive Republican policy agenda, rather than one consumed with catering to the whims of tea party back-benchers: “He’s got a vision for the party that he can articulate. He knows policy, philosophy, and where the party should go intellectually.”
But Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), a member of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus who has expressed measured support for Ryan as speaker, said Ryan could not expect to unify Republicans without making some procedural concessions.
“The displeasure with the way the House has been managed since 2011 is pervasive and crosses all sorts of philosophical boundaries within the party,” Mulvaney said. “The appetite for a new way of doing business is real, and whoever wants to be the speaker is going to have to speak to that.”
Leaving Washington before last week’s recess, most lawmakers hailed Ryan as the only candidate who could unite a House Republican majority deeply divided over how to best wield its power. That has been complicated by a week of activist politicking — on talk radio, on conservative web sites, and in town hall meetings — that has sought to cast doubt on Ryan’s conservative bona fides.
His purported apostasies include supporting the Troubled Asset Relief Program during the 2008 economic crisis, brokering a spending deal with Democrats in 2013 and — most crucially — being a leading Republican proponent of immigration reform packages that would give illegal immigrants a path to legal status.
“There are people who have sort of bought the narrative that the speaker’s race is about trying to get someone who is more conservative, and for those folks Paul is not acceptable,” Mulvaney said. “But there are other folks who believe, and this is what I’ve been telling them, that it’s not about people, it’s about process.”
A new poll released Monday by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal showed strong support for Ryan among Republican primary voters, with 63 percent “comfortable and positive” about Ryan taking over the post. Twenty-eight percent said they would feel “skeptical and uncertain” if he became speaker.
Should Ryan decide not to heed the calls to run, it would set off a free-for-all that has already attracted roughly a dozen potential candidates who have expressed interest in running if Ryan does not.
They range from powerful committee chairmen such Homeland Security’s Michael McCaul and Agriculture’s K. Michael Conaway, both of Texas, to Darrell Issa (Calif.), the high-profile former Oversight chairman to up-and-comers such as Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), who has played a lead role in the GOP’s recent fight against Planned Parenthood.
But many Republicans believe — or at least hope — that melee will be avoided as Ryan has shifted from being averse to inclined to succeed Boehner, due to a wave of encouragement from officials and influential conservatives, as well as a sense of duty to his embattled party.
Brendan Buck, Ryan’s spokesman, said Monday that Ryan did not yet have anything to announce. “Congressman Ryan spent the weekend at home with his family. There is no update, and he looks forward to listening to and speaking with his colleagues this week,” Buck said in a statement.
House Republicans will convene Tuesday in the Capitol basement for a conference meeting focused on the “October agenda.” According to a GOP memo, dinner will be served and staffers will not be allowed in the room. They will meet again Wednesday morning.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a Freedom Caucus member who is backing longshot speaker candidate Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), sighed Monday when he heard about the previously unscheduled session, and said it signaled that the leadership was ready to get behind one of their own.
“This indicates they are at least close to presenting a successor to the conference, in an attempt to get momentum for that person,” King said. “There is an effort out there to talk Ryan out of stepping up, but he may be ready to present himself.”
Gingrich said that if Ryan does decide to seek the speaker’s gavel, he will learn quickly — and encounter early problems.
“It’ll take him about six weeks to go from being a policy guy to a process guy and he’ll be very good at it. But it’s a different world with a different set of rules. That’s what he has to think through: Is that really a world he wants to be in the middle of? Is he willing to endure the scarring?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ryan-nears-decision-on-speakers-race-as-congress-returns/2015/10/20/b0e4998c-7687-11e5-bc80-9091021aeb69_story.html
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Well those so called Young Guns turned out to be duds. Firing blanks. Cantor got run off. McCarthy just got emasculated. Ryan... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
How the hell you going to lead the country when you can't even find someone to lead your own party?
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nobody wants that job
RINOs in congress just want to endorse big budget and amnesty.
Tea parties in congress just want to stonewall everything and pass 500 wedge bills.
Nobody wants to manage that clusterfck.
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Paul Ryan Willing to Run for Speaker With Key GOP Endorsements
By BENJAMIN SIEGEL
Oct 20, 2015
Rep. Paul Ryan said that he's willing to run for the house speakership, replacing Rep. John Boehner, if he garners the support of three key Republican groups.
Ryan has given the Republican Study Committee, the Freedom Caucus and a moderate group until Friday to voice their support.
The Wisconsin Republican, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, had been pressured by members to consider a bid after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy dropped out of the race to take over from Boehner several weeks ago.
Ryan insisted he was not running for speaker before returning home for a 10-day recess, but returned after the time with his family open to the idea.
Boehner, under pressure from House conservatives, announced he would step down from Congress Oct. 30. He later said he would stay on as speaker until his replacement is elected.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/paul-ryan-run-speaker-key-gop-endorsements/story?id=34610834
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Paul Ryan Willing to Run for Speaker With Key GOP Endorsements
remember his debate against Biden? He let drunk uncle joe lead him around by his ear for 90 minutes.
LOL @ the remote possibility of a Speaker Ryan bashing President Biden on FOX news each day in early 2017, LMAO
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Conservatives not yet sold on Paul Ryan as House speaker
By Tal Kopan, Deirdre Walsh, Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Tom LoBianco, CNN
Wed October 21, 2015 | Video Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)—Conservatives in the House are saying not so fast to the idea of Speaker Paul Ryan.
On Tuesday night, the Wisconsin Republican laid out his vision to his GOP colleagues and said he would be willing to serve as speaker -- if the whole conference could unite behind him.
But Wednesday morning, many of the conservatives that consistently fought outgoing House Speaker John Boehner and helped scuttle the bid to replace him by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy signaled they aren't ready to jump on the bandwagon for Ryan.
"I thought we did the coronation last night," Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert cracked Wednesday morning when asked if he would support Ryan.
Gohmert had been backing Florida Rep. Daniel Webster and said he was still supporting Webster. And while Gohmert was never likely to be a vote Ryan would pick up, having voted for himself instead of Boehner in past speaker elections, key members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus were also not rushing to endorse Ryan.
Boehner has scheduled an election for Republicans to pick their nominee to be his successor on October 28, with the full House to then vote on the next speaker the next day. Ryan is scheduled to meet with the Freedom Caucus on Wednesday afternoon and sit down with the other caucuses from whom he seeks support, as well, including the conservative Republican Study Committee and the moderate Tuesday Group.
Ryan's conditions includes rules changes that would make it more difficult to overthrow a sitting speaker - a provision that Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, a leader of the Freedom Caucus, said is a "non-starter."
"We have to remember everything in the House and everything in Congress is about checks and balances," Labrador said. "We have two houses of Congress for that reason. We have three branches of government for that reason, and one of the reasons that every board has the freedom to vacate (the chair)."
Ryan's spokesman Brendan Buck said the proposal on the vacate motion is not to eliminate it, but to either raise the threshold of members needed for such an action to a majority or supermajority of the conference.
After hearing from Ryan in the RSC meeting, Labrador said he still had questions.
"I haven't seen any signs of how anything's going to change," Labrador said. "We're going to have our Freedom Caucus meeting with him and I'm going to ask him specifically. Now, he said a lot of really good things."
After Ryan's meeting with tvhe RSC, one Freedom Caucus member said the RSC gathering was "helpful" and Ryan gave some good answers, including on the hot-button issue of whether to change the rules to make it more difficult to vacate the speaker chair.
"The trick is how do you do it and still protect membership's ability to deal if there was ever a bad egg. So we need to give that choice a little more intellectual capital," said Rep. David Schweikert, R-Arizona.
And fellow Freedom Caucus member Rep. Mo Brooks said in addition to that concern, he takes issue with Ryan's track record on immigration. "Paul Ryan's support for amnesty and open borders, that is a significant factor," the Alabama Republican said.
In still another line of attack, caucus member Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kansas, said Ryan's insistence that he spend time with his family on weekends and not carry on the grueling record of fundraising established by Boehner on his own shoulders is a major problem.
"You can't do the job 9-5, Monday through Friday," Huelskamp said, noting Boehner's raising of more than $50 million for the party. "The speaker has to work on weekends. I'm not running for speaker, I've got young kids at home. ... The time commitment is not 40 hours a week."
Freedom Caucus previously endorsed Webster
The Freedom Caucus endorsed Webster in the race before McCarthy's dramatic announcement he was dropping out and Ryan's subsequent decision. Caucus rules state an endorsement requires at least 80%, and so it would take another four-fifths vote to rescind that endorsement and transfer it to Ryan. And there's no guarantee an endorsement means all members would vote the same way, Brooks noted, adding he had always supported Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, for the spot.
Buck said without the Freedom Caucus' support, Ryan won't proceed with his campaign.
Huelskamp said he was still supporting Webster, but said he was open to hearing from Ryan.
And many of the caucus members did the same.
"On the positive side. Paul Ryan is a very charismatic individual, he's an eloquent spokesman, he's a good fundraiser, all of those are positive factors. So you have to weigh all of these factors," Brooks said.
"This place has to change. It can't be business as usual, status quo. There are a number of candidates, including Paul, who understand we need to change the way this place operates," caucus Chairman Jim Jordan said. "We just want to talk to him about what those specific changes are."
'A class president election'
Boehner says he believes Ryan will win over his colleagues.
"Listen, I think Paul is going to get the support that he is looking for," Boehner told reporters Wednesday morning. "I thought he laid out a very clear vision of how he would run the speakership. And I thought the members responded very well to him."
He added: "We all know Paul Ryan, right? He's a very good member. He works hard. He's very bright. And he has good relationships, I think, with all the wings of the party. That's why I think he'll be doing fine."
Many Republicans fear that if Ryan doesn't earn the conservatives' support, the party will be in total disarray.
"If Paul Ryan can't get 218, no one can," Florida Rep. Carlos Curbelo told reporters.
Ryan's supporters, meanwhile, are helping the effort to bring his opponents around.
"First of all you have to remember this is more like a class president election, we all know one another, it's a pretty small school," said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma.
"He's not running a formal campaign," Cole added, saying in a traditional whip operation he'd have a list of people to call and convince. "Paul Ryan has a lot of friends in this conference. ... I think those people are reaching out on their own to friends."
Cole predicted that while a majority of the Freedom Caucus may back Webster in conference, once Ryan receives an "overwhelming" number of votes, many will ultimately support Ryan on the floor.
"I think it's pretty hard to go home and explain why you didn't vote for him, not why you did," Cole said.
Big agenda items coming up
The clock is ticking for more than just Ryan and Boehner (who is eager to leave Washington) — Congress faces a number of deadlines on must-pass legislation that will require a deft negotiator.
The Treasury says the U.S. will hit its debt limit on Nov. 3, meaning Congress will need to pass a bill raising it in the next few legislative days. And the continuing resolution funding government only runs until Dec. 11, as the leaders in Congress and the White House continue to have a stalemate on the budget.
Boehner is in some ways liberated by his decision to leave Congress at the end of the month, and is expected to take a heavy role in negotiating and pushing through deals on the debt ceiling, budget and other hot topics, like the renewal of the Export-Import Bank. That would take some pressure off his successor. But what he can't accomplish before his hopes to leave at the end of the month will fall to the next speaker, who will already be inheriting the divided conference.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/politics/house-speaker-election-leadership-paul-ryan/index.html
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Ryan is a huge amnesty guy.
And he lost most in 2014 by siding with obama on govt takeover of american lives:
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/06/paul_ryans_liberal_secret_why_hes_suddenly_endorsing_the_social_safety_net/
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House Conservatives Back Paul Ryan for Speaker
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Image: House Conservatives Back Paul Ryan for Speaker (AP)
By REUTERS
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015
The hardline House Freedom Caucus said Wednesday it is supporting Rep. Paul Ryan for speaker of the House, all but guaranteeing he'll get the job.
The group of around three dozen rebellious conservatives, who have caused fits for the GOP leadership, stressed that their support for Ryan was not an official endorsement because it couldn't muster the 80 percent agreement such an announcement would require.
"A supermajority of the House Freedom Caucus has voted to support Paul Ryan's bid to become the next Speaker of the House," the group said in a statement. "Paul is a policy entrepreneur who has developed conservative reforms dealing with a wide variety of subjects, and he has promised to be an ideas-focused Speaker who will advance limited government principles and devolve power to the membership.
“While no consensus exists among members of the House Freedom Caucus regarding Chairman Ryan's preconditions for serving, we believe that these issues can be resolved within our conference in due time,” the caucus said. “We all know that Washington needs to change the way it does business, and we look forward to working with Paul and all our colleagues to enact process reforms that empower individual representatives and restore respect to our institution.”
Ryan, in a statement, called the support from a supermajority of the conservative Freedom Caucus "a positive step toward a unified Republican team." He said he also looked forward to hearing from two other House Republican groups by the end of the week; both are expected to back him.
Support from the group was not certain since they've repeatedly opposed GOP leaders and pushed the current speaker, John Boehner, to announce his resignation.
Several members of the group had raised concerns about Ryan. But after meeting behind closed doors Wednesday night, the lawmakers emerged to say they would support him.
The Wisconsin congressman, a reluctant candidate for the post, was asked to run by mainstream party leaders seeking to resolve a crisis set in motion when compromise-averse conservatives pushed Boehner to resign and then pressured his likely successor into withdrawing.
The same intraparty divide is roiling the Republicans' presidential campaign, with outsiders led by Donald Trump dominating the field for months.
On Wednesday, some House members took issue with Ryan's suggested changes to congressional rules and even his desire to balance family life with the demands of the job.
"No other speaker candidate came in and said here's the list of my demands, either meet those or I'm not going to do this," Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, a member of the hardline caucus, complained the day after Ryan outlined the conditions for his candidacy. "Speaker's a big job. And it's not a 9-to-5 job. So there are a lot of questions to be answered."
Ryan began making the rounds to the three major House caucuses whose endorsements he is seeking as a condition for running for speaker. It's a job the 45-year-old never wanted but is exploring, he says, out of a sense of duty after Boehner announced his resignation and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy abruptly withdrew from the running to replace him.
Ryan has made clear that he does not want to be the latest victim of Republican dysfunction and will run only if it becomes clear he can unify the House GOP.
"I won't be the third log on the bonfire," he said.
Boehner, who hopes to leave Congress at the end of this month, sought to move the process forward, scheduling secret-ballot House GOP elections for Oct. 28, to be followed by a floor vote in the full House the next day.
Florida Rep. Daniel Webster, initially endorsed by the Freedom Caucus at the outset of the speaker’s race, told Newsmax late Wednesday that he would remain a candidate for the position.
“No other candidate who has put forward their name for speaker has committed to governing in a principled, member-driven manner,” he said. “I am running for speaker because the transformation of the way we do business is possible if we seize this opportunity.”
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/freedom-cause-backs-ryan/2015/10/21/id/697419/#ixzz3pFwQn04R
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so what happens now?
does the tea party suddenly go soft and support every moderate/liberal thing Ryan does?
OR
Does Ryan abandon the moderates and go full out tea party crazy too, stalling everything?
IMHO, Ryan wants to see legislative achievement... which means he and the tea party will be going to war. Unless they abandon their strategy they've been using for 5 years.
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So Ryan won't take the position unless he has guaranteed family time?
Yet opposed family leave for everyone else?
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So Ryan won't take the position unless he has guaranteed family time?
Yet opposed family leave for everyone else?
cur personal attack on LurkerNoMore for making an extremely valid point.
maybe we can call him a shitbag lib or something?
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So Ryan won't take the position unless he has guaranteed family time?
Yet opposed family leave for everyone else?
Is he asking for some kind of family leave?
What family leave did he oppose for everyone else?
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cur personal attack on LurkerNoMore for making an extremely valid point.
maybe we can call him a shitbag lib or something?
Here is the response :
Dos - ::)
Coach - "HAHAHA lib this.. lib that... how's the economy doing.... you just don't get it..."
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Is he asking for some kind of family leave?
What family leave did he oppose for everyone else?
Ryan opposes bills to create mandatory paid leave in the American workplace
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Ryan opposes bills to create mandatory paid leave in the American workplace
Good. That isn't "family leave."
Where did he ask for family leave?
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Is he asking for some kind of family leave?
What family leave did he oppose for everyone else?
Yeah. Despite not even working 100 days last year.
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Yeah. Despite not even working 100 days last year.
Good for him. Most mid-sized and probably nearly all large companies already provide paid leave.
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Good for him. Most mid-sized and probably nearly all large companies already provide paid leave.
Not that much and they certainly do not want to keep other people from having the same.
On the bright side, it gives him plenty of time to catch up on his dish washing skills.
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Not that much and they certainly do not want to keep other people from having the same.
On the bright side, it gives him plenty of time to catch up on his dish washing skills.
Not that much what?
So I read his actual comments. He didn't ask for family leave. Only in the twisted mind of a liberal does man saying he will not give up family time = some kind of request for "family leave."
Progressives call hypocrisy on Paul Ryan paid family leave
By Eli Watkins, CNN
Thu October 22, 2015 | Video Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)—Rep. Paul Ryan said he would run for speaker -- under certain conditions. A few are political, but one is personal. Ryan said he would not sacrifice the time he spends with his family.
"I cannot and will not give up my family time," he said Tuesday.
That point has endeared him to some and angered many others who find it at odds with his position against proposals mandating paid family leave.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook executive and author of the popular book "Lean In," applauded Ryan for prioritizing his children.
Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of "The Huffington Post," also praised Ryan.
Arianna Huffington Verified account
@ariannahuff Good for Paul Ryan, listing as 1 of his Speaker demands: "I cannot and will not give up my family time” http://huff.to/1Ko9vMR
But some progressives say Ryan's demand for time with his family is hypocritical.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted, "That's why Dems are fighting for paid sick time, family leave & schedules that work."
Lizz Winstead, co-creator of "The Daily Show," wrote, "Paul Ryan will step up to fight against paid family leave for working Americans, as long as he can have paid family leave to (sic) to it."
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted, "Republicans talk about 'family values' but the US is the only major country that doesn't guarantee paid family leave."
Just 13% of U.S. workers had access to paid family leave, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey from 2014.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/politics/paul-ryan-paid-family-leave/index.html
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he is a salaried employee demandng add'l time for family.
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he is a salaried employee demandng add'l time for family.
Of course he could always pro-rate his salary based on the number of days he is away. Or just STFU trying to take it away from other people.
But both of those choices make too much sense and thus, will never cross his mind.
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Ryan announces he will run for House speaker
Published October 22, 2015
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Oct. 21, 2015: Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP)
Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan announced Thursday he would seek the House speakership after gaining support from several critical Republican groups.
In a "Dear Colleague" letter addressed to members of the House Republican Conference, Ryan said he was "ready and eager to be our speaker."
"I never thought I’d be speaker. But I pledged to you that if I could be a unifying figure, then I would serve—I would go all in," he said in the letter. "After talking with so many of you, and hearing your words of encouragement, I believe we are ready to move forward as a one, united team."
Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner told the House Republican Conference on Wednesday that they will vote internally for speaker on Oct. 28, followed by a full floor vote on Oct. 29. In total, Ryan or any candidate would need roughly 218 votes to win the speakership.
Rep. Dan Webster, R-Fla., who previously had announced his candidacy for the job, told Fox News late Thursday he remained in the running despite Ryan's announcement.
The three House Republican groups that Ryan said must support him in order for him to seek the speakership did so before his announcement.
The latest to support him was the Republican Study Committee and the so-called Tuesday Group. The former represents mainstream House conservatives and claims over 170 members. It said Thursday Ryan is "the right person to lead the House going forward."
The Tuesday Group, which also backed Ryan, represents GOP moderates.
Their support comes after the House Freedom Caucus, which earlier had endorsed another candidate, put out a statement Wednesday saying that the overwhelming majority of its members now support Ryan – though it wasn’t technically an endorsement. Their initial resistance to a Ryan speakership had been his biggest hurdle to running.
Ryan, in initially opening the door to a run, said that he must have broad support from these groups – and if he didn’t, he would stay on as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and not seek the job being left by Boehner.
Ryan had laid out several demands as a condition for him running, including:
• He wants House rules changed to overhaul what is known as the "motion to vacate the chair" -- a parliamentary weapon members can use to try and oust a speaker.
• He wants to be able to spend time with his family, and not be on the road as much as previous speakers.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/22/3-gop-groups-back-ryan-opening-path-to-speaker-run/?intcmp=hpbt4
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i look forward to Ryan-style gridlock in congress.
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Ryan gets House GOP speaker nod
Published October 28, 2015
FoxNews.com
House Republicans formally nominated Rep. Paul Ryan for speaker Wednesday, looking to him to help unify the party after a tumultuous period -- though defections in the ranks could preview some last-minute drama on the House floor.
The Wisconsin congressman and 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee easily beat rival Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Fla., to become the Republican nominee, with 200 lawmakers backing Ryan and 43 backing Webster. Ryan will formally stand for a vote in the full House on Thursday, likely against Democrats' pick Nancy Pelosi.
"This begins a new day in the House of Representatives," Ryan said, in brief remarks after Wednesday's internal vote. While praising outgoing Speaker John Boehner, he vowed to begin "turning a page."
"Our party has lost its vision, and we are going to replace it with a vision," he said.
Ryan's tally on Wednesday, though, fell short of the roughly 218 that ultimately will be needed to lock down the top congressional job. If he can't garner that many votes from the outset on Thursday, the House would have to keep voting until a candidate wins a majority.
GOP leadership sources nevertheless tell Fox News they don't foresee problems on the floor Thursday.
Ryan, as speaker, would mark a stark change in leadership style from the backslapping Boehner, who plans to retire shortly after his successor is set in place.
The fiscal policy wonk who has cultivated a strong conservative following would take the gavel after spending the better part of the year as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
While he initially resisted appeals to run for the job, Ryan ultimately relented to Republican pressure. Ryan sought the job on his own terms, though, laying out several conditions that caused some consternation inside the conference -- including a demand to strip a tool that can be used to oust a sitting speaker and the condition that he have support from all major GOP caucuses.
Despite some lingering opposition, Ryan mostly secured that support in the end.
The 45-year-old congressman is seen by some as a bridge between the embattled GOP establishment and hardline conservatives who successfully pushed out Boehner.
Bringing his caucus together won't be easy. Conservatives support him, but are watching closely to see if he can really change the way things are done.
Not everyone praises Ryan.
Some members of the conservative Freedom Caucus, the group largely responsible for Boehner's decision to step down, have expressed concerns that Ryan, whom Boehner pushed to run, will be more of the same. The group has criticized Boehner for working with Democrats and negotiating legislation behind the scenes, without input from all sides of the caucus.
Ryan secured the support of the group -- one of his conditions for running -- by pledging to open up the legislative process.
Ryan opposes abortion rights and same-sex marriage, and has a top rating from gun-rights groups. But in conflict with some Republicans, he supported the auto industry and bank bailouts that many in the GOP's right flank criticized.
But his focus has always been budget and tax policy. He is a disciple of, and past aide to, the late Rep. Jack Kemp, once a GOP vice presidential nominee himself who effusively promoted tax cuts as a central tenet for economic growth.
Ryan has said he wants to overhaul the tax code and rework the nation's welfare system. He considered being the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee his dream job -- one of the reasons he was reluctant when Republicans worked to recruit him as speaker.
Another was his family.
Unlike previous, older speakers, Ryan has three school-age children and he says firmly that they are his priority. The Ryans live in Janesville, Wisconsin, on the western edge of his district that runs from the shores of Lake Michigan through farm country south of Madison.
"I cannot and will not give up my family time," he said when he announced his candidacy for speaker.
Democrats have criticized Ryan's policy goals, including his attempts to overhaul domestic programs like Medicare and food stamps. But many say he is easy to work with -- a quality that could serve him well in the unruly House.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/28/ryan-gets-house-gop-speaker-nod/?intcmp=hpbt1
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Ryan succeeds Boehner as speaker, seeks to fix 'broken' House
Published October 29, 2015
FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON – Republican Rep. Paul Ryan succeeded retiring John Boehner as House speaker on Thursday, appealing for unity and "understanding" as he embarks on the tough task of trying to heal deep divisions in the party and the chamber itself.
As he took the gavel after easily winning election on the floor, the Wisconsin congressman declared "the House is broken" and called for a fresh start.
"We're not solving problems, we're adding to them," Ryan said, declaring that going forward: "We are not settling scores. We are wiping the slate clean."
The selection of Ryan marks the end of a head-spinning and unpredictable succession. Boehner shocked Washington by resigning mid-term, and only after his deputy Kevin McCarthy suddenly bowed out of the race to replace him did Ryan seek the job -- after initially rebuffing appeals to do so.
Ryan, though, vowed to do his best to take "the tough issues ... head on." Lamenting that Americans see "chaos" in Washington, he rattled off a to-do list that includes fixing the tax code, growing the economy and paying down the debt. He also called for a more transparent legislative process.
More broadly, he urged both parties to figure out how to work together. "If you ever pray, let's pray for each other -- Republicans for Democrats, and Democrats for Republicans." He joked, "And I don't mean pray for a conversion. ... Pray for a deeper understanding."
"We are all in the same boat," Ryan said.
A day earlier, Ryan vowed to do his best to start "turning a page" in the House, where Boehner has sparred with a conservative wing whose legislative demands and penchant for battle over once-routine items have in turn frustrated GOP leadership.
It is a challenging task, though Ryan's relatively smooth election reflected an ability to bridge gaps in the conference, at least for now.
The Wisconsin congressman and 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee was elected with 236 votes, a majority. The outcome effectively was predetermined after he locked down most Republican members' support. Democrats put up their leader, Nancy Pelosi, who got 184 votes, to run on Thursday. But Ryan's chief GOP opponent Daniel Webster, R-Fla., took himself out of the running after Ryan easily beat him for the nomination -- though several Republicans voted for Webster on the floor anyway.
While Boehner helped resolve fights over must-pass legislation right before leaving office, Ryan will face his first real test with one unresolved matter -- a long-term bill to fund highway programs. Congress has approved a short-term bill to prevent a shutdown of highway programs, but lawmakers have only a few weeks to come together on a long-term measure.
Amiable and just 45, Ryan has been in Congress 17 years and has strong ties with all wings of the GOP. Past chairman of the House Budget Committee and current head of the Ways and Means Committee, he has put his imprint on deficit reduction, tax, health and trade legislation -- prime subjects that have raised his stature and put him at the center of many of Congress' highest profile debates.
Many Democrats like Ryan but none is hesitating to attack him as a symbol of Republican policies they consider harsh. These include efforts to reshape Medicare into a voucher-like program, squeeze savings from Medicaid and pare taxes for the rich.
Ryan becomes the House's 54th speaker, putting him second in line to succeed the president, and the youngest speaker since Rep. James Blaine, R-Maine, who was 39 when he took the job in 1869.
Ryan was elected Thursday after Boehner, the 25-year House veteran who stunningly announced his resignation last month after leading the House since 2011, delivered emotional farewell remarks.
Ryan's ascension was coming as Congress neared completion of a bipartisan accord to lift the debt ceiling and fund the government for two years. The House approved the bill Wednesday 266-167, with final Senate passage on track in a few days, despite opposition from conservatives including senators seeking the GOP presidential nomination.
The budget vote underscored Ryan's challenge in leading Republicans who often have scant interest in compromise with Democrats, especially with a GOP presidential contest dominated by candidates who vilify Washington insiders. Republicans opposed the budget deal by 167-79, but Democrats supported it unanimously.
Conservatives complain that Boehner has been excessively powerful, forcing bills to the House floor without rank-and-filed input, dictating committee chairs and punishing rebels. One Freedom Caucus leader, Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, said conservatives expect Ryan to alter that.
"We're going to have his back for the next few months and make sure that we give him the opportunity to show that he can be the leader that we hope he can be," Labrador said.
Boehner's resignation prompted a month of GOP turbulence after the Freedom Caucus derailed the candidacy of the heir-apparent, Majority Leader McCarthy, R-Calif. Establishment Republicans pressured a reluctant Ryan to seek the speakership, viewing him as their best shot at patching the GOP's ragged ruptures.
Ryan, though, set several conditions for him taking the job -- including that the chamber strip a tool that can be used to oust a sitting speaker; that all major caucuses support him; and that he be able to spend time with his family.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/29/house-elects-ryan-as-speaker/?intcmp=hplnws