House GOP Conference Renominates Ryan for Speaker

The newly elected House Republican conference voted to nominate Paul Ryan for speaker on Tuesday, a little more than a year after first being elected speaker. Ryan will now face a full vote of the House of Representatives in January, when the new Congress is called into session.

According to reports, Ryan’s nomination by a voice vote was approved unanimously, with “no nays heard in the room,” as one House Republican source put it. Ryan was running unopposed for speaker, and that doesn’t mean he won’t have Republicans voting against him in January. As the Washington Post reported, several members of the Freedom Caucus are expressing skepticism about Ryan’s role as the Republican leader on policy during the Trump administration.