Also Wednesday, he thinks that House Republicans will pick Paul Ryan to be the Speaker of the House. That led party leaders to draft a reluctant Ryan.
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Todd asked Labrador to comment if there was any benefit to the deal providing “economic certainty for the rest of the year” and the congressman took the opportunity to blast outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner. “I know what a showman and all that he is”.
“Dave has been a foot soldier in the conservative movement, and he is a good friend”, Ryan reportedly said in a statement Sunday.
“If we get six months down the road and nothing’s really changed, if we get eight months down the road and nothing’s really changed, then I think it’s, “Everybody needs to get a helmet” time, ‘ ” said GOP Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada. “There’s a reason John Boehner chose to resign”. That bill faced certain rejection in the Senate, and partly as a result was looking short of votes among House Republicans. When Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., became the House Majority Whip, he hired a lobbyist as chief of staff. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., after taking McCarthy’s position in the leadership shuffle that followed former Virginia Republican Rep. Eric Cantor’s sudden election loss, brought on a retail industry lobbyist as his policy chief. Such legislation would pass with nearly entirely Democratic votes.
It’s a situation certain to provoke howls from the GOP base, especially if it ends up being the first item on a newly installed Speaker Ryan’s to-do list. They believe Ryan will listen to conservative voices in the House rather than ignore them like Boehner did.
The group included about 25 people, many of whom were holding signs that read things like “Families First” or “We Have Families Too Paul”.
Two other members from the House Freedom Caucus explain why there is support for Ryan amongst a supermajority of its members.
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According to Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), “It never was about the most flawless guy with the most ideal voting record; it’s about the person that’s willing to govern in a way that allows conservative ideas to at least come to the forefront, which he has said he is willing to do”. “He goes into a room, negotiates with three or four people, he comes to the House of Representatives on Monday evening and he tells us he’s going to put something on the floor at midnight on Monday and we have less than 48 hours to look at it and to actually debate it”.
