Nothing is going to change. Be it Boehner or Ryan the same deadlock will take place. Stating cuts was the right path for the USA automatically sets up Congress to fail. This is a Congress that added $80 billion US to the last budget. Ryan is lying from the start. Rhetoric, that is all the Republicans know and understand. This is a good race for Ryan, he can actually stop lying about having fiscal answers for the USA. Ryan is an austerity guy. He doesn't know why he is an austerity guy except it makes Grover Norquist happy.
Washington — Paul Ryan's election as House speaker (click here) was all but assured Wednesday as the GOP conference voted in a closed-door meeting to nominate the 45-year-old Wisconsin Republican as their top leader.
The nine-term congressman still must be elected Thursday in a public vote by the full House. But he cleared the biggest hurdle Wednesday when the fractious, 247-member Republican conference largely united behind him. If he is elected, Ryan will be one of the youngest speakers in history.
"This begins a new day in the House of Representatives," Ryan said after the vote. "(Speaker) John Boehner served with humility and distinction and we owe him a debt of gratitude. But tomorrow we are turning the page...Our party has lost its vision and we're going to replace it with a vision."
Ryan said the country is "on the wrong track."...
Washington — Paul Ryan's election as House speaker (click here) was all but assured Wednesday as the GOP conference voted in a closed-door meeting to nominate the 45-year-old Wisconsin Republican as their top leader.
The nine-term congressman still must be elected Thursday in a public vote by the full House. But he cleared the biggest hurdle Wednesday when the fractious, 247-member Republican conference largely united behind him. If he is elected, Ryan will be one of the youngest speakers in history.
"This begins a new day in the House of Representatives," Ryan said after the vote. "(Speaker) John Boehner served with humility and distinction and we owe him a debt of gratitude. But tomorrow we are turning the page...Our party has lost its vision and we're going to replace it with a vision."
Ryan said the country is "on the wrong track."...
