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GOP to elect Speaker next week; conservatives skeptical of Ryan

GOP to elect Speaker next week; conservatives skeptical of Ryan

By Scott Wong and Mike Lillis – 10/21/15 09:38 AM EDT

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is getting a cool reception from House conservatives, whom he said must endorse him before he’ll agree to run for Speaker.

Leaders of the House Freedom Caucus and their conservative allies said Wednesday they’re turned off by the list of conditions Ryan said must be met before he launches a bid for the top post.

In addition to backing from three major GOP caucuses, Ryan wants assurances he could cut back on fundraising trips so he can spend more time with his family and promises that conservatives won’t try to oust him from power.

“It’s like interviewing a maid for a job and she says, ‘I don’t clean windows, I don’t do floors, I don’t do beds, these are the hours I’ll work.’ It’s rubbing a lot of people the wrong way,” Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), a co-founder of the Freedom Caucus, told The Hill. Continue reading “GOP to elect Speaker next week; conservatives skeptical of Ryan”

Media Calls Out Paul Ryan Acceptance Speech For Falsehoods

Media Calls Out Paul Ryan Acceptance Speech For Falsehoods

The Huffington Post  |  By Posted: 08/29/2012 11:03 pm Updated: 08/29/2012 11:57 pm

Paul Ryan’s vice presidential acceptance speechran into a lot of trouble with fact-checkers and journalists.

It seemed like some reporters’ heads were going to explode on Twitter as Ryan spoke. For instance, he blasted President Obama for not doing more to keep a GM plant in his hometown open. The problem was that the plant closed before Obama took office. He also criticized Obama for rejecting recommendations from a debt commission that he himself sat on, and whose findings he also rejected.

ABC’s Jake Tapper was one of a nearly infinite amount of reporters tweeting these points: Continue reading “Media Calls Out Paul Ryan Acceptance Speech For Falsehoods”

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