The Bill John Boehner Reportedly Wants to Pass Before Leaving Congress

If his career trajectory includes a shot at the White House, the speaker’s job is not on that arc – even though the speaker is second in line to the presidency.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), another key leader in the House of Representatives, will not run either.

“While I completely respect Zinke’s service, he has voted as a RINO (Republican in name only)”, said another. Paul Ryan is a personality who is being hand-picked by John Boehner. The National Journal writes that Flores is pointing to his private-sector experience as an energy executive and his chairmanship of the conservative Republican Study Committee.

Boehner had originally meant to step down at the end of October, but his exact departure date is unclear since the election for a new speaker hasn’t been scheduled. This was dramatic; Mr McCarthy had been lobbying his colleagues only moments earlier and his rivals, Daniel Webster and Jason Chaffetz, respectively of Florida and Utah, had so little support that Mr Boehner postponed the vote.

Assuming no Democrats vote for the leading GOP candidate for speaker, and the Freedom Caucus also votes en bloc against that lawmaker, that candidate wouldn’t win the 218 votes necessary to become speaker.

“The sad thing is, we’re dealing with this”, Bost said of the intra-party spat. Cole said he doesn’t blame him for that position, but he’s still the candidate most likely to attract the broadest support. They rejected him, nonetheless, because they considered him tainted by his association with Mr Boehner. “You can’t get a bill or an amendment to the floor unless the steering committee approves, and the committee is made up of members appointed by Boehner, who as speaker gets more than one vote”.

“I think that’s misjudging the American electorate, and quite frankly, it really undermines and depresses and demoralizes the base of this party that gave the Republican Party the majority in the Senate”, he said. I mean, he’s basically, though, indicated that he might take the job if it was by a claim – it sounds to me like if he was drafted.

“People have defined him as the only possible hope”, said former Rep. Vin Weber, R-Minn., a Ryan friend. A potential future presidential candidate should be wary of taking on an impossible job. To me, this is very easily solved. In the meantime, Ryan’s spokeswoman Brendan Buck is policing social media to make sure reporters don’t spread misinformation about the Wisconsin Republican’s plans. Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs told ABC News: “If we weighed in every time Donald Trump said something stupid we wouldn’t have time to do anything else”. John Boehner’s (Ohio) second-in-command – speaker would have been politically tone-deaf.

Jolly believes that the leadership fight could extend until November if Ryan passes on the speakership.

Mulvaney acknowledged that “if Paul gets in, clearly it’s a game-changing type of move”, but said that “unless Paul comes out and says: ‘Look, I want to be speaker, here’s why I want to be speaker, and here’s why I think I’d be different and better than John [Boehner],’ it’s a real hard sell”.