Congressman Kind liked what he heard during Paul Ryan’s inaugural speech Thursday… especially about changing how the House does business. Vice President Joe Biden summed it up: “No one got everything they wanted”.
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White House aides point to Ryan’s work on a 2013 budget deal with Democratic Sen. “We should all feel that way”.
Fellow Republicans also showed support to the new House Speaker Paul Ryan according to Huffington Post. Ryan said earlier this year that he would be dressing up as Romney for Halloween.
“Paul Ryan is riding on the back of a tiger”, said Robert Bixby, executive director the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan government fiscal watchdog group.
“With the vote today completed, it is now upon us, as elected representatives, to move ahead as a team”, Clawson added.
He wants Medicare and Social Security privatized en route to ending them altogether – Medicaid, food stamps, and other social programs gutted.
Ryan’s fingerprints are not on this most recent budget deal; it was done by a speaker who has nothing to fear from conservative Republicans because he’s on his way out, anyway.
Ryan started off on a strong footing with Thursday’s vote of confidence.
A few Republicans apparently still had concerns.
We hope, for the country’s sake, he has better luck as House speaker than his predecessor, John Boehner. “I have real concerns; however, if he can lead given the conditions within the party we see right now”, said Bachus. “The committees should take the lead in drafting all major legislation”.
Legislatively, Ryan and Congress are facing a deadline on highway funding.
The new House Speaker’s apparent disinterest in gambling legislation seems to mimic New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s sentiments that he made apparent at this week’s GOP debate. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, is widely expected to take over for Ryan as Ways and Means chairman. With nothing politically to lose, he actually negotiated with Obama, hammering out a budget that increases spending, imposes painful cuts and raises the debt limit. That’s required, but Ryan knows he owes much to the 79 Republicans fearless enough to vote with the Democrats and pass this budget. Hard-liners complained about the negotiating role of Boehner – a lame-duck speaker with nothing to lose.
He might not have gotten his first speakership choice in Chaffetz, but it appears the Republican establishment are making sure they stay in good favor with the billionaire as they’ll be appealing for his millions of dollars in campaign contributions as the 2016 election cycle intensifies.
“I think he would’ve liked to have been president, but I think he’s figured out God had another plan for him to be speaker of the House”, Boehner said. We create a lot of them too. So we’re hopeful. We don’t believe compromise is a dirty word – and neither should the speaker of the House. He will stand on his convictions, but I think there is room in his mind for discussion with people that have a different opinion, and they may not come to an agreement, but I believe Congressman Ryan can walk away from that table with respect for the difference in the viewpoints without having always have won the argument.
“We still may have the threat of a shutdown”, Ornstein said. He is pledging to work with Ryan to change the way Congress operates. The former merely papers over the problem of poverty – the latter can actually thin out the ranks of the poor by giving those capable of greater self-sufficiency opportunities to achieve it.
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Curtis Tate of the Washington Bureau contributed.
