Ryan expected to declare for top House post: lawmakers

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Politics | Thu Oct 22, 2015 1:57pm EDT

Ryan expected to declare for top House post: lawmakers

WASHINGTON | BY SUSAN CORNWELL AND SUSAN HEAVEY

Congressman Paul Ryan nailed down crucial endorsements on Thursday and was expected to declare soon that he will run for the top job in the U.S. House of Representatives, as Republicans tried to end a crippling internal power struggle.

With a deadline to raise the U.S. debt limit only days away, the House has been transfixed by a chaotic struggle to find a successor to replace House Speaker John Boehner, who said last month that he plans to step down on Oct. 30.

Republicans are scheduled to vote on nominating a new speaker on Oct. 28, with a vote by the full House on Oct. 29.

Republicans who have met with Ryan, a Wisconsin lawmaker who ran for vice president in 2012, said they expected him to run.

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[drray23]

1. i work for a contractor for the us govt.

I better prepare myself for a shutdown. If this guy is the speaker and is in charge of negotiating the debt ceiling we are cooked.

After all, he is the guy who proposed dismantling social security and the like in his "budgets". That is going to be interesting...