Ryan doesn't trust Obama on immigration reform

"And I'm not interested in laying blame... we are wiping the slate clean", Ryan said after the vote. He's a smart guy and knows that the Republican caucus he is about to lead is almost ungovernable. Ryan is also 23 years younger than the former Massachusetts governor, the same age of Romney's oldest son.

While crediting Ryan for holding the hearing on poverty, Sister Simone, a member of the Sisters of Social Service, said the new speaker has spoken of the social services safety net as a "hammock".

"Let's be frank: The House is broken", Ryan declared.

Ryan went on to say that without a "coherent" strategy from the White House going forward, the USA will "likely see the same results in the region". We are adding to them.

Boehner, for whom Ryan volunteered during his first run for Congress in 1990, offered his own thoughts on Ryan's future in an interview with Bash just before he left the House. In past budget talks, the standard practice has been an exchange over funding levels and policy riders - if Republicans demanded a rider, they would have to give in for more funding priorities for Democrats.

Republicans rallied behind Ryan to elect him the House's 54th speaker on Thursday as a splintered GOP turned to the youthful but battle-tested lawmaker to mend its self-inflicted wounds and craft a conservative message to woo voters in next year's elections.

He said, "Concrete (Bill) Ryan, his son Terry Ryan of the Minnesota Twins, and all the rest are somehow related".

The Wisconsin Republican is faced with keeping his party's conference unified as he takes a position that places him third in line for the presidency. He and Boehner were cordial, though hardly close during the Ohio lawmaker's almost five years as speaker. They never get a raise. Viewed as a hero by Republicans when he was picked as the vice presidential nominee, numerous same conservatives who gushingly praised him in 2012 attacked him as too moderate on issues like immigration when he became a serious candidate for Speaker.

Ryan cited trade promotion authority and the 2013 budget deal struck with Sen. They've also welcomed his vocal support for the president's pursuit of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade pact.

If we could make Gibson's character into a verb - I would say that it is time for Paul Ryan to "William Wallace" the Congress, and the nation.

"I sat in the Oval Office with the president of the United States and [then-House Majority Leader] Eric Cantor, shook hands with the president and the deal was done", Boehner told Hemmer. We show self-government is not only more efficient and more effective; it is more fulfilling. "We've been shocked and confused by the loud voices saying Speaker Ryan is a few kind of secret liberal or establishment hack".

But he could not pull that off completely while also passing a sweeping budget deal, so as Boehner exits, he leaves behind several key issues that will test Ryan's leadership style and determine whether he will have any more success in wrangling the GOP caucus than Boehner did. We call on Speaker Ryan to continue supporting public policies that drive technological innovation and advanced manufacturing; promote a 21 century economy and workforce; enable smart regulation; and support science-based environmental protection.