{"id":25871,"date":"2015-10-22T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/house-freedom-caucus-supports-ryan-for-speaker\/"},"modified":"2015-10-22T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T15:00:51","slug":"house-freedom-caucus-supports-ryan-for-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/house-freedom-caucus-supports-ryan-for-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"House Freedom Caucus supports Ryan for speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON<\/strong> \u2014 The hardline House Freedom Caucus said Wednesday it is supporting Rep. Paul Ryan for speaker of the House, all but guaranteeing he\u2019ll get the job.<\/p>\n

The group of around three dozen rebellious conservatives, who have caused fits for the GOP leadership, stressed that their support for Ryan was not an official endorsement because it couldn\u2019t muster the 80 percent agreement such an announcement would require.<\/p>\n

\u201cA supermajority of the House Freedom Caucus has voted to support Paul Ryan\u2019s bid to become the next Speaker of the House,\u201d the group said in a statement. \u201cPaul is a policy entrepreneur who has developed conservative reforms dealing with a wide variety of subjects, and he has promised to be an ideas-focused Speaker who will advance limited government principles and devolve power to the membership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Support from the group was not certain since they\u2019ve repeatedly opposed GOP leaders and pushed the current speaker, John Boehner, to announce his resignation.<\/p>\n

Several members of the group had raised concerns about Ryan. But after meeting behind closed doors Wednesday night, the lawmakers emerged to say they would support him.<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin congressman, a reluctant candidate for the post, was asked to run by mainstream party leaders seeking to resolve a crisis set in motion when compromise-averse conservatives pushed Boehner to resign and then pressured his likely successor into withdrawing.<\/p>\n

The same intraparty divide is roiling the Republicans\u2019 presidential campaign, with outsiders led by Donald Trump dominating the field for months.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, some House members took issue with Ryan\u2019s suggested changes to congressional rules and even his desire to balance family life with the demands of the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo other speaker candidate came in and said here\u2019s the list of my demands, either meet those or I\u2019m not going to do this,\u201d Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, a member of the hardline caucus, complained the day after Ryan outlined the conditions for his candidacy. \u201cSpeaker\u2019s a big job. And it\u2019s not a 9-to-5 job. So there are a lot of questions to be answered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan began making the rounds to the three major House caucuses whose endorsements he is seeking as a condition for running for speaker. It\u2019s a job the 45-year-old never wanted but is exploring, he says, out of a sense of duty after Boehner announced his resignation and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy abruptly withdrew from the running to replace him.<\/p>\n

Ryan has made clear that he does not want to be the latest victim of Republican dysfunction and will run only if it becomes clear he can unify the House GOP.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t be the third log on the bonfire,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Boehner, who hopes to leave Congress at the end of this month, sought to move the process forward, scheduling secret-ballot House GOP elections for Oct. 28, to be followed by a floor vote in the full House the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 The hardline House Freedom Caucus said Wednesday it is supporting Rep. Paul Ryan for speaker of the House, all but guaranteeing he\u2019ll get the job. The group of around three dozen rebellious conservatives, who have caused fits for the GOP leadership, stressed that their support for Ryan was not an official endorsement because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25871"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}