House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republican leaders in Congress are putting the final touches on a massive omnibus spending bill that will fund the federal government until after the presidential election.
The first major action Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) will take as Speaker of the House is blocking amendments with a closed rule process on a flawed bill dealing with immigration.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s debut speech was very well-received by Democrats, which will not do much to assuage conservative critics.
“It sounded an awful lot like a Democrat speaking,” proclaimed Democratic Caucus vice-chairman Joseph Crowley (D-NY). “I think he’s a good person and a decent guy.”
Ryan has an incredibly difficult task ahead of him. But he can succeed if he does three things others have not.
Following Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) nomination by the Republican conference on Wednesday to be the next Speaker of the House, he told reporters that it is time to unify the Republican Party and that the “party has lost its vision.”
As reports of a runaway military blimp filled cable news, MSNBC turned the coverage over to their breaking news reporter Brian Williams.
The secret, top-level process used to create the federal budget for 2016 and 2017 really “stinks,” says Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who is likely to replace Rep. John Boehner as House Speaker this week. But he did not promise to vote against the $8 trillion plan.
A new PBS documentary has exposed the motivating factors behind House Freedom Caucus members’ decision to propel donor-class favorite Paul Ryan into the most powerful position in Congress. As Speaker of the House, Ryan will have unilateral control over many aspects of the congressional agenda, including passage of Obamatrade in the lame duck session and amnesty legislation in 2017.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) officially entered the race for Speaker of the House Thursday evening.
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. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) spokesperson, Brendan Buck, attempted to “clear a few things up” over backlash from conservatives about one of Ryan’s conditions for running for Speaker of the House.
Conservative members of the House are pushing back against Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) demand to nullify the procedural rule put into place by Founding Father and President Thomas Jefferson, which was used by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and the House Freedom Caucus to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-OH).
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said the demands that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is making before running for Speaker of the House are “unreasonable,” while Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) said one of his demands is a “non-starter.”
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wants to repeal a rule put in place by the third President of the United States and Founding Father – Thomas Jefferson – before he’d become Speaker of the House.
Tea Party Patriots released a new video titled “Choose Wisely” after Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced Tuesday that he will run for Speaker of the House – if the conference unites behind him.
SAN DIEGO — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told a book signing on Tuesday that he believes Hillary Clinton is “very, very unlikely to be the Democrat nominee.”
After meeting with House Republicans this evening, Rep. Paul Ryan admitted during a press conference that he was willing to run for Speaker of the House–but only if they met a list of demands of what it would take to get him to run.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that he believes Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) will make an announcement as soon as tonight regarding whether he will run to replace current Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) acknowledged on Breitbart News Sunday that since no candidate has a clear pathway to becoming the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner could remain Speaker through January 2017.
Many Democrats legislators are willing to unite with Republican legisaltors to elect a “consensus choice” for Speaker of the House, Democratic Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said this weekend. “I think in our caucus there is interest and support, there’s an openness to a bipartisan approach to this [the election of the next Speaker of the House],” Pelosi said at the Texas Tribune Festival, according to Conservative HQ.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA), the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, sounded off on the possibility of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Romney’s 2012 running mate, as the next Speaker of the House. Romney told
Conservative primary challenger Jim Duncan is charging fundraising numbers prove that Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) is “the ultimate Washington, D.C. insider, completely out-of-touch with her North Carolina constituents.”
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is reminding members of the House of Representatives that nothing has changed since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dropped out of the running for Speaker of the House. King is encouraging members to throw support behind Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL), saying he can “bridge the divides currently running through [the] Conference.”
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.
Conservative radio host Sean Hannity says Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) isn’t the right man to be Speaker of the House and is urging other members of the House to come up with another option.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) would make a great conservative Speaker of the House, suggests the American Conservative Union’s member scorecard.
Conservative author and activist Daniel Horowitz said that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) would be the “worst option” for Speaker of the House. “Paul Ryan is the absolute worst option,” Horowitz professed. “In this case [‘worst’] really applies.”
Illinois Republican Peter Roskam is one of the emerging candidates to replace Ohioan John Boehner as the powerful Speaker of the House of Representatives. So, who is Peter Roskam?
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, host and Breitbart Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle will discuss the most important news of the week. He will be talking about the race to find a replacement for John Boehner as Speaker of the House, the 2016 presidential race, the upcoming Democratic presidential debate, and much more.
Paul Ryan was one of the strongest advocates to grant Obama fast-track trade authority under the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
President Barack Obama raised money across California this weekend, while U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy went into seclusion upon returning home to Bakersfield. Obama even poked fun at the turmoil in Republican ranks, which intensified when McCarthy withdrew from the Speaker’s race in the House.
“Saturday Night Live’s” second show of the new season opened with a mocking of “Fox & Friends” with Taran Killam playing Steve Doocy, Vanessa Bayer playing Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Bobby Moynihan playing Brian Kilmeade. Pete Davidson appeared as “Jason Chaffetz” as a candidate for Speaker of
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump thinks Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is “a very nice guy,” but “far from [his] first choice” to be the next Speaker of the House.
On Saturday’s “Up” on MSNBC, host Jonathan Capehart commented on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, telling Suzy Khimm of The New Republic that being a dictator and taking away committee assignments is “what a speaker does.” “Suzy, you
If GOP leadership puts forward Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as its “Plan C” for Speaker of the House, which appears to be Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) plan, it’s sure to be a third strike, according to several influential conservatives.
It appears as if those conservative “wacko birds” in the U.S. House of Representatives really do have a lot of sway up in Washington, D.C.
The problem is that the Republican leadership betrayed their own base one time too many. What happened in 2014 was quite simple: the GOP asked voters to give them both House and Senate to put the brakes on Obama’s disastrous agenda, and the voters took them up on it. The capitulations and walkbacks began with days of the last races being called. The old song-and-dance about how “we’ll fight next time” and “we need just a little more power to get anything done” was performed one last time, to disastrous effect.
The last time Republicans faced a crisis of succession for Speaker of the House, they turned to a quiet figure from Illinois, Dennis Hastert, to lead them. With Peter Roskam, the House GOP may again find the answer in Illinois.
(Ferenstein Wire) – The tech industry, now one of the largest private sector lobbying forces in Washington DC, hasn’t had much to say as Republicans scramble to find a new Speaker for the House of Representatives. But now, Congress’s geekiest member, Representative Darrell Issa, is “considering” putting his hat in the ring and has turned heads in the well-heeled tech halls of D.C.
Sometimes duty calls. Paul Ryan long has told people that he has no interest in being speaker of the House, and he has been completely sincere.
