{"id":76608,"date":"2015-10-09T17:04:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=76608"},"modified":"2015-10-09T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:04:02","slug":"republicans-pressuring-paul-ryan-run-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/republicans-pressuring-paul-ryan-run-house-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans pressuring Paul Ryan to run for House Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Following House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s withdrawal from the Republican Speaker of the House race, a growing chorus of Republican and conservative voices are urging Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to run for the position.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan, Mitt Romney&#8217;s presidential running mate in 2012, <a href=\"\/news\/the-attacks-on-paul-ryans-pro-life-principles-begin\/\">has long been<\/a> a pro-life voice in Congress. However, in 2010 he <a href=\"http:\/\/rightwingnews.com\/conservatives\/its-moronic-for-conservatives-to-call-for-a-truce-on-moral-issues\/\">called on Republicans<\/a> to accept a &#8220;truce&#8221; on social issues such as abortion in the name of prioritizing fiscal issues: &#8220;We will agree to disagree on those issues. But let\u2019s rally around the tallest pole in our tent: fiscal conservatism, economic liberty.\u201d Last month, Ryan also <a href=\"http:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2015\/roll528.xml\">voted for<\/a> the federal budget resolution which funded Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Possible Speaker candidates Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2015\/10\/09\/chaffetz-ill-step-aside-for-ryan\/\">have both said<\/a> they would step down on behalf of Ryan if he chose to pursue the office. Earlier today, the conservative National Review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/paul-ryan-speaker\">endorsed<\/a> Ryan for Speaker, arguing that he is the choice most trusted by divided Capitol Hill Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2015\/10\/08\/report-boehner-phones-paul-ryan-asks-him-to-run-for-speaker-or-else-he-might-stay-on-as-speaker-himself\/\">Reportedly<\/a>, outgoing Speaker John Boehner is also urging Ryan to enter the race, and according to Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier, may go so far as to postpone stepping down for the remainder of this Congressional session if he declines.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan himself has repeatedly <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/paul-ryan-mccarthy-out-speaker\">said<\/a> he will not run, citing a desire to retain his position as chair of the House Ways and Means Committee. However, McCarthy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2015\/10\/09\/house-republicans-speaker-ryan-mccarthy\/73643178\/\">claims<\/a> Ryan is opening to the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s withdrawal from the Republican Speaker of the House race, a growing chorus of Republican and conservative voices are urging Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to run for the position. Ryan, Mitt Romney&#8217;s presidential running mate in 2012, has long been a pro-life voice in Congress. However, in 2010 he called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":76622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[19,403,5524,131,3151,613,4168,5523,615,5317],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Republicans pressuring Paul Ryan to run for House Speaker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 2010, Ryan asked the GOP to accept a &quot;truce&quot; on social issues like abortion in the name of prioritizing fiscal issues.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/republicans-pressuring-paul-ryan-run-house-speaker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Republicans pressuring Paul Ryan to run for House Speaker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 2010, Ryan asked the GOP to accept a &quot;truce&quot; 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