Reid Supports Ryan for Speaker – Roll Call

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Reid Supports Ryan for Speaker

By JM Rieger

Posted October 20, 2015 at 9:41pm

By JM Rieger and Niels Lesniewski

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House Ways and Means Chairman Paul D. Ryan just got an unwelcomed endorsement for speaker. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters Tuesday that he hopes the Wisconsin Republican is selected by his colleagues to succeed retiring Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio. “He appears to me to be one of the people over there that would be reasonable. I mean, look at some of the other people. I’m a Paul Ryan fan,” Reid said. Read more.

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