Paul Ryan wants to change the job of speaker of the House before he takes it. He’s right — and he should go farther.

The House of Representatives, like any institution, changes. The old guard of each generation — the gray-haired congressmen, columnists and commentators — lament the changes, and long for a return to the old order. But the old order is often dead and gone, and so it is with the U.S. House.

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