Freedom Caucus grouping aligned with Tea Party movement announces supermajority will vote for compromise candidate to replace John Boehner Paul Ryan is on the verge of becoming the next Speaker of the House after a super-majority of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus agreed to vote for him,while stopping short of a formal endorsement.
Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee and current chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, or had on Tuesday establish himself forward conditionally as a compromise candidate to replace John Boehner as Speaker. He said he would only run whether he received the endorsement of the Tea Party-affiliated Freedom Caucus in addition to the conservative Republican Study Committee and the moderate Tuesday Group. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com