Economy

Paul Ryan gets it done

By Joseph Lawler
Published January 30, 2018 5:01am ET
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Paul Ryan gets it done
Throughout his two-plus years as speaker, Paul Ryan has been able to maintain a tenuous peace within the House Republican conference, a group of politicians with wildly divergent views and styles that proved unmanageable for Boehner and that might have been unable to settle on a leader if Ryan hadn't been drafted in 2015. (Illustration by Nate Beeler for the Washington Examiner)

Rep. Steve King braced for bad news when House Speaker Paul Ryan called on a Sunday afternoon in early 2016.

The Iowa Republican, one of the biggest immigration hawks in the House, had added a provision to a trade bill that Ryan had passed out of the Ways and Means Committee that would have prevented any trade agreements from changing immigration or visa policies.

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