Former House Speaker Paul Ryan leaves Congress with one of the lowest favorability ratings a Speaker has ever had, bottoming out at a negligible 12 percent in a final poll from Civiqs.
Even if the House passes a clean Harvey relief bill the Senate could return it with debt ceiling increase attached
The conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC) drafted a letter to send to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) demanding that the Senate adopt the House’s more conservative health care reforms.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R.-WI) told reporters Tuesday that President Donald Trump closed the deal with House Republicans on Ryan’s American Health Care Act, scheduled for a vote Thursday.
President Donald Trump met with members of the Republican study committee at the White House today, endorsing the House effort to replace Obamacare.
The president of the American Conservative Union, the sponsor of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, told Breitbart News Sunday host Matt Boyle that this year’s CPAC is about action after years of protest over taxes, regulations, and Obamacare.
Jim Jordan says the election of Donald J. Trump as president in November was not a signal that it was now acceptable to return to business as usual. “That’s my big concern. And, that’s why we have to focus on doing what we told the voters we would do, doing what they sent us here to do,” he said.
“This is an historic moment to have Republican control of House,Senate and presidency and I believe that the people, who came to the polls sent a clear mandate that they want change here in Washington–drain the swamp,” Walker says. “We need to be talking about unifying and earmarks are another divisive issue,” he said.
Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.) wants to pass a jail-sentence reduction bill through the House after the election, according to a Politico article.
The Ohio congressman leading House conservatives in the drive to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for High Crimes and Misdemeanors during his tenure told Breitbart News Wednesday’s impeachment hearing with Koskinen testifying under oath has been a long time coming.
The Louisiana GOP congressman who filed a motion to impeach IRS Commissioner John A. Koskinen before Congress’s summer recess told Breitbart News Wednesday he is ready to file his motion again as a privileged motion in the next week against the wishes of the House GOP leadership.
Another example of unrest between the Republican leadership and its members came from The Hill on Monday, as it reported the forty members of the House Freedom Caucus may separate from the Republican Study Committee when the next Congress convenes.
“I will not vote for Hillary Clinton and desire to vote for a bold, conservative leader. Mr. Trump can be that leader and we are ready to help him when he focuses on vision instead of inappropriate attacks,” the Texas congressman said.
The Republican Study Committee (RSC) is encouraging House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to run Speaker of the House. Chairman of the RSC Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) says he is “confident” that Ryan “is the right person” for the job.
Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX) circulated a letter Monday saying that if Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) stays out of the race for Speaker of the House, Flores will throw his own name in the hat, according to CNN.
The House conservatives’ blueprint would cut spending by $7.1 trillion over ten years, repeal Obamacare via the reconciliation process and balance the budget in six years.
Traditionally, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) has been the voice of the more conservative members of the House GOP, but with it’s membership swelling and its conservative members increasingly frustrated by leadership viewed as more establishment-aligned, a core group of House conservatives is said to be splintering off to form a new group of their own in what is being characterized as a “mass exodus.”
