GOP nominates Ryan as speaker

Kevin MaCarthy, a Californian Republican, was unanimously reelected to another two-year term as majority leader, while Steve Scalise, from Louisana, was reelected majority whip.

On Tuesday the House is expected to approve a bill renewing a decades-old Iran sanctions law, which supporters say would let the US punish Tehran should the country fail to live up to the terms of the landmark nuclear deal.

Speaker Paul Ryan promises that President-elect Donald Trump and a unified Republican Congress will mean that “a better way, better days lie ahead for our country”. He’s also been slammed by long-time Trump supporters upset that he refused to work for the president-elect during the campaign, and clashed frequently with him. Similarly, almost nine in ten GOP voters oppose Paul Ryan’s vision on trade, according to polling data from a recent POLITICO pro-Harvard survey.

But a week after Trump’s startling election, elated Republicans rallied behind Ryan.

While there were no changes to the top of the leadership ladder, there was some intrigue elsewhere.

Florida Republican Rep. Tom Rooney, one of the members proposing the change, told reporters Tuesday that the amount of spending wouldn’t increase – it will just be controlled by members of Congress who know the specific needs of their districts. Ryan says there’s still plenty of overlap.

“We need to seize this moment, and come together like never before”, the Wisconsin Republican wrote in a letter to the House GOP.

Collins, 66, has been in Congress less than four years.

According to Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong, Ryan was nominated by Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., a founding member of the conservative Freedom Caucus that helped to push out former House Speaker John Boehner.

Flores rejected the notion that his loss had anything to do with his RSC leadership. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. He is a man who has made great success, created tens of thousands of jobs because he gets good advice from good people who are around him in his life.

Ryan’s silence on the issue leading up to Wednesday’s vote anxious conservatives.

As the Trump revolution rolls into D.C., Republicans “need to seize this moment and come together like never before”, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on November 14 as Congress reconvened.

Pence takes reins as Trump’s transition team is shuffled. “The point is Donald Trump wants jobs”, he said.

He and House GOP leaders held a press conference unveiling their priorities Tuesday.

McCarthy and other Republicans also were forced to defend Trump’s pick of Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist and senior counselor.

Voters chose President-elect Donald Trump in part because of his pledge to “drain the swamp” of Washington corruption, and restoring earmarks so soon “would have been a bad look”, Simpson said. Depends on bygones. In January, Bannon said: “We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation”.

Meanwhile, details of how the Republican government plans to act on key agenda issues, such as immigration and the budget, remain in flux.