The House GOP will vote behind closed doors on November 15 to elect its leadership for the upcoming Congress, according to an internal memo sent to Republican staffers. The votes will take place one day after Congress returns from its fall recess, and one week after the November 8 presidential election. Candidates for the various offices leader, whip, conference chair, among others will make their pitches during a two-hour candidate forum in the house basement on Monday, November 14. Its unclear at this point whether any of the incumbent leadership officials will be tested, but the mid-November date offers little time for potential challengers to organize against them. Assuming Republicans keep their majority in the lower chamber that is, if they avoid losing 30 seats next Tuesday there also will be an internal vote for speaker. But even if Paul Ryan wins reelection inside the November 15 conference meeting, his job wont be secured until a vote of the entire House of Representatives on the first day of the new Congress: Tuesday, January 3. Ryan has announced his plans to pursue a full term as speaker after succeeding John Boehner last fall, but among some House conservatives there are whispers of an organized rebellion. Some of these members and their allied outside activist groups had previously advocated for the leadership elections to be pushed back to December after the Congress votes on a funding bill to avoid shutting down the government. They were unsuccessful, but its ultimately the January 3 vote where Ryan needs their support and depending on how many seats are lost next week, and how ugly the government funding fight becomes, the speaker could have very little margin for error. Ryan needs a majority of all votes cast by the entire House to keep the speakers gavel; if the GOP loses 15 to 20 seats, a small handful of conservative agitators could join the Democrats in voting for anyone else to deprive him of a majority.....snip~ Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/441697/ Ryan has no room for any margin of error, despite getting this election set for one week after the Presidential. The Repubs should nominate Jeb Hensarling for speaker to challenge Ryan. Send Ryan's Demo supporting ass back down to the ranks. The mope has done nothing but bend over to BO peep and those Democrats. If he wins Speaker.....nothing will be done to hold up or prevent the Demo agenda. What say ye?
I am going to seek staying on as speaker… There’s a lot of unfinished work to do,” said Ryan. “I can do a lot to help our cause, our party.” Like most interviews he’s done in the past few months, Ryan heavily touted his Better Way agenda that serves as a blueprint for conservative policy solutions and a response to the Obama-Clinton agenda. However, a noticeable last-minute excitement for Trump has been seen in Ryan in very recent appearances. He enthusiastically spoke on the need to elect Trump during a “Fox & Friends” interview, even announcing he had voted early for the GOP nominee.....snip~ http://townhall.com/tipsheet/jasonhopkins/2016/11/05/ryan-announces-he-will-run-for-speaker-n2241651 Ryans better way agenda is to give into what the Demos want. There is no way that he can Prevent anything Hillary and the Demos will do if Hillary wins. Scalise might challenge him if Hensarling doesn't want it. Ryan may make the hurdle until Jan. But then he might find that some Repubs just might hand the Leadership over to Pelosi.....if he doesn't move for a Special prosecutor to go after Hillary and BO's corruption.
Looks like others are seeing the same thing with Ryan. All he can do is hope for a Trump win and then to eat some public crow. Op-Ed: It doesn't matter who wins the election. Speaker Paul Ryan needs to step down.... There are a growing number of reports saying House Speaker Paul Ryan is considering stepping down just after the election. That makes sense, because Ryan's position looks more and more untenable given the current and likely future state of things on Capitol Hill. Most of Ryan's problem can be summarized in two words: "Donald Trump." But his and the establishment Republican Party's severe challenges are older and more serious. The Trump phenomenon isn't the cause of Ryan's woes, it's just the symptom. Ryan is stuck in a lose/lose situation. If Trump wins, his lack of decent support for his own party's presidential candidate will make any relationship with the Trump White House difficult to say the least. A number of more pro-Trump members of his own party in the House will surely push themselves to be Speaker and run in the party caucus elections on the strong argument that they will be able to work better with the new administration. It's hard to think of any strong counter argument Ryan and his supporters could offer. If Hillary Clinton wins the election, Ryan will still face sharp opposition from those more pro-Trump forces within the Republican Party. And if the election is as close as most polls are starting to predict it will be, those Trump supporters in and out of Washington are likelier to be even angrier at GOP leaders like Ryan whose lack of support they are likely to blame for the close loss. And if Ryan somehow survives that mess, there seems to be no way that he could grab enough support to advance any of his legislative agenda in compromise mode with the Clinton White House. The only slim chance Ryan has to remain as Speaker and get something done is for Trump to win the White House and Ryan to find a way to eat some very public crow to Trump's satisfaction. Then, Ryan would have to convince Trump that's he's still the man to push through their mutually-agreed on tax and regulation cutting agendas. To do that, Ryan would probably have to show a lot more willingness to execute any immigration or border control reforms Trump wants to happen. But the above scenarios seem like a tough needle to thread even if Trump pulls off an upset win. Ryan's options are running out and his chances of post-presidential election success are narrowing by the day. Maybe he doesn't deserve to be the scapegoat for the GOP's disconnect with so many voters. But nobody said politics was fair.....snip~ http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/04/paul-ryan-should-quit-commentary.html
Ryan has trouble.....the Freedom Caucus is withholding their support for him. Ryan may face battle to keep his job as House Freedom Caucus leaders withholds support..... Paul Ryan initially didn't want to be speaker, but he may now have to fight to keep his job. A number of members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus -- a group of roughly 40 members who have been a persistent thorn in the GOP leadership's side -- are refusing to say if they will back the Wisconsin Republican's bid to keep his gavel if their party maintains the House majority. The chairman of the group, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, pointedly declined to say in a nationally televised interview this week if he'd back Ryan. Several of the group's top members, including Reps. Raul Labrador of Idaho, Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina and Mark Meadows of North Carolina, refuse to say if they'd like Ryan to return. And others, including Rep. Dave Brat of Virginia, are already laying out a list of conditions for Ryan to meet before offering their endorsement. "If he commits to regular order -- in writing -- and no Trans-Pacific Partnership until we reduce regulations and no amnesty bills and a commitment to reduce federal spending, then I will vote for any candidate who backs these conservative positions that 80 percent of Republicans share," Brat, who voted against Ryan last year, told CNN Friday. "Each of these issues should just be reflexive for any Republican by the way; they should not take more than five seconds to say 'yes.'" But other conservatives who backed Ryan last time, including Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma, are refusing to commit to voting for the speaker now because of Ryan's recent comments that he wouldn't defend -- or campaign with -- Donald Trump. Some House conservatives in the Freedom Caucus took unusual step this week of taking time off the campaign trail and returning to Washington days before the election to meet to discuss how they could flex their muscle in upcoming leadership election. In the meeting, a handful of members discussed changes they wanted Ryan to make, including giving rank-and-file members more power to select committee chairman and adding a new conservative to Ryan's leadership team, sources said. Some of these conservatives are holding off saying how they will vote as a way to leverage their support to get some type of rules change they believe will boost their power inside the GOP conference. But one of the worst scenarios facing Ryan is if he wins the House GOP's vote to be renominated as speaker in November, but loses the vote on the full House floor in January to get the 218 votes needed to keep his gavel......snip~ http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/04/politics/paul-ryan-house-freedom-caucus/index.html
