Rep. Ellmers addresses House GOP on email rumors

Despite the setback, House Republicans eventually will elect a new speaker, said Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-3rd Dist.).

Why would anyone want to be speaker at this point?

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is deciding whether to seek the US House of Representatives’ speaker job, fellow Republican lawmakers said yesterday after they met behind closed doors to try to settle their leadership battle. McCarthy, now the No. 2 Republican and previously the favorite to succeed outgoing House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, was done in by the defection of 40 or so hard-line Republicans from the influential Freedom Caucus.

Wing also said she’s heard Georgia’s own Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Coweta County, mentioned as Boehner’s possible successor.

But Republican congressmen from Western Pennsylvania paint a different picture. “I have no reason to not believe what McCarthy said”. Leaving the Capitol Wednesday night, Ryan refused to rule out a Speaker’s run, saying, “This is not the time or place to discuss it”.

Asked if Ryan would have to embrace the Freedom Caucus’s demands for decentralizing power, Jordan said: “I think the next speaker has to be committed to that”. “It’s not like we’re going to be without a speaker”. There’s been discussion for a while now that that could be on the chopping block.

“A lot is in it for us”. “But he’s got to decide”. “I know him very little”.

The most vocal of those Republicans has been Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), who pointed to centrist Republicans having to depend on Democratic votes recently to pass government funding, when only 91 Republicans were willing to vote to keep the government open.

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“That’s what puts us in these tight spots”, he said.

Scalise, 50, told supporters a week ago that he had commitments from a majority of the 247-member GOP caucus to move up to majority leader, the second-highest leadership position. That’s why it’s important that Republicans find a speaker who is not afraid to stand up to a splinter group within the party and get things done even in the face of a partisan divide between the White House and the GOP majority in Congress.

Rumors swirl as Paul Ryan’s camp continues to deny a run for Speaker.

“East Coast guys don’t get the urgency”, LaMalfa said.

“I don’t see how a person can separate their public life from their private life or from their faith”. Even Romney called Ryan, urging him to run.

“I want to see who else is in the race”.

“It’s the American people speaking up”.

“The Speaker of the House is actually an institutional leader; meaning he must be the leader of the entire chamber and not the leader of his party”, Augustana University political science professor Emily Wanless said. “This is what’s great about the nation”. “This is not a few kind of high school debating class. This is business”. He said Feingold, who served 18 years in the Senate before losing to Johnson in 2010, covets returning to office because “he’s part of the elites”.