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Supporters argue the legislation should be viewed as a strong signal to Saudi leaders regardless of whether it passes.

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

What is 'vote harvesting,' anyhow? And why did Arizona ban it?

Defending the vaporware and setting up a scapegoat at the same time.

He ran hard early not against Donald Trump, but Paul Ryan. And he might have peaked too soon.

Jim Jordan’s bid to succeed Paul Ryan.

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

House Speaker Paul Ryan discussed his upcoming retirement and future political prospects during an appearance at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning.

The motorcycle manufacturer has drawn the president's ire for announcing plans to build cycles in the EU.

It has slim chances of becoming law, and they have no backup. But it’s a plan.

Speaker Ryan: 'We must continue to apply maximum economic pressure.'

Here’s how to get them.

Or minority leader.

We stand by our reporting.

On Sunday, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney strongly endorsed the idea that House speaker Paul Ryan should step down in order to trigger an election that would force House Democrats to vote for unpopular Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.

Top Republicans consider amping up the pressure on Paul Ryan to step down as Speaker of the House before midterm elections.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Bryan Steil isn't intimidated by talk of a blue wave. To the contrary, he finds the challenge "invigorating."

Paul Ryan’s attempt at institutional reform resulted only in sectarian and ideological strife.

What you should know about discharge petitions and the 'Queen of the Hill' rule.

Below is a transcript of an interview of House Speaker Paul Ryan by Stephen F. Hayes, editor in chief of THE WEEKLY STANDARD at the TWS Midwest Conservative Summit earlier Monday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and concision.

The retiring speaker addressed the Midwest Conservative Summit.

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the handshake between Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un at the DMZ, Bret Baier's interview with former FBI Director James Comey, the fate of Michael Cohen, and Pat Buchanan's troubling curtain call.

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, Weekly Standard co-founder and editor at large William Kristol joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the latest with President Trump regarding a potential pardon of Scooter Libby, the Mueller probe, the crisis in Syria, and retirement of Paul Ryan.

Speakers of the House of Representatives don’t ordinarily retire before they’re turned into minority leaders. But on April 11, Paul Ryan announced he would leave his seat at the end of this term. His decision, which had been rumored for months, wasn’t entirely surprising. His children are still…

It’s fitting that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced his retirement during what was a very disturbing week in the White House, even by the chaotic standards that have prevailed under President Trump. Some suggested Ryan’s leaving means the Republican party has now become a Trumpist party. But…

But at least Paul Ryan told some hard truths about entitlements.

The doomed measure is a nod toward fiscal responsibility.

Let’s be honest: Congress was never really going to reform entitlements under House speaker Paul Ryan. The subject is campaign poison—the only way lawmakers would act proactively is if congressional terms were measured in decades instead of years.

Hosted by Charlie Sykes

The outgoing speaker's district will be in play this November.

The Wisconsin Republican took over as leader in 2015, replacing John Boehner.

President Trump threw a potential wrench into congressional budget discussions Friday morning, threatening to veto the omnibus package that Republican leaders pushed to his desk just hours before to avoid a government shutdown.

Lawmakers in the House, racing a government shutdown deadline, voted 256-167 to pass a $1.3-trillion omnibus spending bill on Thursday afternoon, less than 20 hours after its 2,232 pages of legislative text were first released.

An omnibus funding bill is facing delays in Congress ahead of a Friday government shutdown deadline, with lawmakers scrambling to answer a number of open questions in the $1.3 trillion package related to border security, infrastructure projects, and gun violence prevention measures.

Republicans may have just lost a district that went for President Donald Trump by 20 points in 2016 and has been reliably red for nearly two decades, but GOP lawmakers on Wednesday downplayed the blow.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will impose hefty tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum, his spokeswoman said on Monday.

Paul Ryan, of all people, was in a defensive posture about his commitment to fiscal discipline. Speaking on February 13 to Maria Bartiromo of the Fox Business Network, the speaker of the House insisted that the two-year budget deal Republicans in Congress had just brokered was a necessary…

Are Republicans in the Trump era deficit-hawks-in-name-only? Or does the party still have faithfulness toward reducing the federal deficit in meaningful ways. Between last week’s Republican-forged budget deal that ended a severely flawed, but effective, system of spending caps and the advent of…

If there was any enthusiasm for President Trump’s infrastructure proposal on Capitol Hill on Monday, it was hard to find. Republican Bill Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation committee, gave a perfunctory statement noting the White House’s framework while hardly endorsing it.

Senator Rand Paul was not happy. A 652-page budget and appropriations deal, worked out by congressional leadership, was unveiled at midnight Wednesday, a mere 24 hours before the shutdown deadline.

Milwaukee

Lawmakers in the Senate are expected to pass a bipartisan two-year budget deal ahead of a midnight government shutdown deadline when it comes to a vote Thursday evening, leaving the ball in the House’s court.

With just three days remaining until a government shutdown deadline, House Republicans on Monday night moved forward on a stopgap funding measure that is likely to breeze through the chamber on a party-line vote but will face slim odds in the Senate.

When Paul Ryan agreed in October 2015 to become speaker of the House, some Republicans worried he couldn’t handle the political side of the job. Known as a policy wonk and not a political fundraiser, Ryan had insisted that one condition of his taking on the job would be that he would spend his…

We’re likely to see the Memo—that’s the House Intelligence committee’s memo, written by GOP chairman Devin Nunes, alleging wrongdoing on the part of the FBI’s initial investigation into Russian meddling by Trump campaign associates—sometime on Friday. Whatever Nunes’s summary of the FBI’s FISA…

President Trump’s second annual address to Congress passed Tuesday night without him mentioning a sole word about entitlement spending, continuing a deviation from the economically conservative Congress he inherited.

Congress has just two weeks to come to a consensus on how to codify protections for the Dreamers—roughly 700,000 unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the United States as children—before government funding runs out February 8, or risk another shutdown scenario.

Activists who oppose abortion doubted Donald Trump when he was a candidate because he had once described himself as "very pro-choice." A year into his presidency, however, they happily point to victories he has achieved for them.

Lawmakers in the House voted to advance a short-term spending bill Thursday night, a critical next step in keeping the government up and running before funds run out at midnight on Friday.

President Donald Trump split with Republicans in Congress on a key aspect of the party’s short-term government funding measure Thursday morning.

Republicans are scrambling to pass a short-term spending bill to keep the government up and running, just 72 hours before a shutdown deadline.

One fact of the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency is that the policy results have been pretty conservative. For some conservatives, this is enough to sustain a great enthusiasm for Trump and his presidency. For others, like me, the concerns about Trump’s erratic behavior, his casual…

The forecast for November 6, 2018 is a Democratic tsunami.

*Correction, 1/3/17: The piece originally stated that "President Trump will meet with Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and Chuck Schumer on Wednesday to start on the list with a discussion of the government funding bill." Officials from the White House, not President Trump, will be meeting…

As we prepare for 2018—which absolutely, positively, has to be better than 2017—we’ve followed the example of the great Chris Wallace and asked TWS staff for predictions for the coming year along four vectors: politics, sports, entertainment, and foreign policy.

For two hours on December 19, Paul Ryan loved his job.

It was a joyous celebration on the White House lawn Wednesday afternoon, and deservedly so. Republicans in Congress passed their tax cut bill, their biggest legislative achievement all year, amid some difficult circumstances—particularly their little-room-for-dissent Senate majority. Donald Trump…

Senate Republicans announced Wednesday afternoon that they would not attach measures providing additional funding to Obamacare in a year-end spending bill to keep the government open.

A procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate means the House of Representatives will return on Wednesday to vote on a slightly modified version of the tax bill it passed Tuesday. After House speaker Paul Ryan gleefully gaveled the vote, but before the Senate parliamentarian determined three provisions…

This post had been updated.

A neighbor has parked his classic Jaguar in front of my apartment building for the last two months. Around it are a new BMW, a Mercedes, and two Audis.

Congressman Trent Franks announced his resignation from Congress Thursday evening, saying he was unwilling to undergo an Ethics Committee investigation into conversations about surrogacy he had in recent years with two female staffers.

The House of Representatives passed its tax reform bill on Thursday on a 227-205 vote. All Democrats present and 13 Republicans voted against it.

There are, in essence, three things wrong with the federal tax code. They are, in descending order of importance, that corporations pay an absurdly high rate; that the code is a labyrinthine mess that turns the work of paying one’s taxes into a nightmare; and that marginal individual rates have in…

House Republicans reversed course Thursday on their plans to scrap the adoption tax credit. Kevin Brady, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, issued a statement that an amendment to the committee's bill would restore the adoption credit and make other tweaks to the bill. The…

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday pushed back against criticisms of the provision repealing the adoption tax credit in the Republican bill to overhaul the tax code, saying the bill overall would benefit families. "It is a tax credit that goes to higher income individuals. Middle and low income…

The House Republican tax reform package met immediate resistance after it was unveiled Thursday. Some blue-state GOP reps were wary of the measure’s treatment of state and local sales taxes. Sens. Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Jeff Flake, and Bob Corker expressed their own concerns. The National…

Republicans finally released a full working draft of their mammoth tax reform plan on Thursday. The 400-page Tax Cuts and Jobs Act doesn’t deliver the full Christmas list of tax priorities the White House requested in April, but it’s still a massive reorganization of the tax code that includes huge…

Wednesday was supposed to be a big day in Washington for Republicans still searching for a big legislative accomplishment for Donald Trump’s first year in the White House. GOP leaders in the House of Representatives had planned to release their legislation Wednesday, which the White House is saying…

With the U.S. Supreme Court case, Gill vs. Whitford now concluded, we wished to look at how the Badger State found itself at the center of the judicial fight over partisan gerrymander. The following is Part 2 in a series relaying Wisconsin’s recent history in drawing its legislative district lines.

We Wisconsin political watchers are used to having the Badger State’s redistricting fights end up in court. So used to it, in fact, that some form of court has played a role in the matter since 1931.

The stock market rockets ever-upward, as well it should, what with the president’s tax package destined to make corporate America great again. Sure thing.

Republican leaders plan to unveil a tax plan today that dramatically cuts taxes on businesses, eliminates many deductions and credits, and drops tax rates for most individual taxpayers, a senior Republican source told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

There are two campaign commercials from House hopefuls in 2018 worth considering as a pair. The first one is from Iraq and Afghanistan veteran Dan Helmer, a Democrat challenging at least seven others in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District to face Rep. Barbara Comstock.

In President Trump’s politics, “the overall impression matters more than the details,” writes Newt Gingrich in his book Understanding Trump. This is not only true and insightful, it also explains Trump’s conduct of late.

In President Trump’s politics, “the overall impression matters more than the details,” writes Newt Gingrich in his book Understanding Trump. This is not only true and insightful, it also explains Trump’s conduct of late.

Despite a packed legislative calendar, House Speaker Paul Ryan says he’s still confident that Congress will have tax reform legislation on President Donald Trump’s desk before the end of 2017.

Is cutting the corporate tax rate merely a sop to the wealthy, as a report recently published by the Institute for Policy Studies alleges? It's an important question, since a corporate rate cut is a prominent feature of every tax reform proposal currently on the table.

Blindsided congressional Republicans worried Thursday about whether President Trump's surprise fiscal deal with the Democrats would mean more shocks are ahead on issues such as tax reform.

One day after President Donald Trump shocked Washington by endorsing a Democratic debt ceiling plan that would fund the government for three months and provide money for hurricane relief, the Senate passed the plan by an 80-17 vote.

President Donald Trump has fiscally conservative Republicans in a serious bind.

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday voiced his disagreement with President Donald Trump’s decision to adopt the short-term timetable Democrats have advocated to raise the federal debt limit, a plan he called a “ridiculous idea” on Wednesday—but stopped short of criticizing the president himself.

On Wednesday morning, House Speaker Paul Ryan called Democrats’ plans to raise the debt ceiling and fund the government for just three months “a ridiculous idea.” Hours later, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi announced that President Trump had agreed to help them do just that.

For a town accustomed to punting major policy issues, the Trump administration’s boot of DACA to Congress could nab it a Pro Bowl nod.

As the White House debates whether to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Republican congressional leaders are pressuring the president to keep the Obama-era protections for illegal immigrants who came to the country as minors.

Things went from bad to slightly worse between Donald Trump and Republican leadership in Congress Thursday. It started—as it always seems to—with a series of presidential tweets.

Republican lawmakers praised President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he would maintain U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and base further action on conditions on the ground rather than a predetermined timeline.

Nice little show you got there... In Boston, a bizarre extortion trial involving movie-stereotype union Teamsters and celebrities from the hit television show Top Chef resulted in a verdict of not guilty for the Teamsters. Interestingly, "at least three witnesses testified that a top [mayoral] aide…

After months of private deliberations, GOP leadership and the White House announced Thursday that they are ready to move forward on tax reform.

Republican tax negotiators believe they are closing in on an agreement to overhaul the U.S. tax code but remain at odds over whether reform would be enshrined permanently or automatically sunset after a period of years.

What began as a bill slapping sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile development and human rights violations is being mired in minutiae over a single added word—“Russia.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller should be allowed to proceed in his investigation of Russia's election meddling, and said he'd advise President Trump not to fire him, a step some of Trump's close allies have said he is considering.

While everyone was watching James Comey's testimony on Thursday, House Republicans gave their colleagues in the Senate a major bargaining chip in their ongoing negotiations for financial reform.

President Donald Trump stated on Thursday that the United States would pull out of the Paris climate agreement, saying that it would not only help the economy of the United States but act as "a reassertion of America's sovereignty."

The ball in Times Square hit zero Wednesday evening for the Congressional Budget Office's latest projection of the American Health Care Act. As with the agency's estimate of an earlier version of the bill, the document was immediately put to political use. "The Congressional Budget Office just…

Speaker Paul Ryan committed the House Wednesday to "follow the facts wherever they may lead" in response to a growing briar patch of allegations against the Trump White House, including a report that the president discouraged James Comey from continuing an investigation of former national security…

The Republican party's dream of an Obamacare replacement might yet become reality. But the House-passed American Health Care Act is a nightmare: a labyrinth of policy trade-offs and academic ideas the public has resisted entering. It's currently polling in the 30s—a relative achievement, given that…

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, editor at large William Kristol shares his perspective on the House's passage of the American Health Care Act and the road ahead in the Senate for Obamacare repeal.

House Republicans held together just enough on Thursday to pass their partial Obamacare replacement, a surgically repaired bill that a critical mass of conservatives and moderates blocked until they became more comfortable with the final product in recent days.

If the House of Representatives ends up passing a new version of the American Health Care Act in the next couple of weeks, Republicans can thank the White House—for staying mostly out of the way. While both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence continue to speak with both House…

President Trump and the boys from Goldman Sachs have put together a dazzling tax reform plan. It has enough pro-growth incentives to energize the economy even after Congress eliminates some of them. But there's a problem: paying for it.

The Republican Party avoided a demoralizing upset Tuesday when it forced Democrat Jon Ossoff into a special election runoff to fill a vacant conservative Georgia House district.

I had an economics teacher who liked telling his classes he had a deal with the local grocery store: He doesn’t produce his own food and it doesn't teach economics.

Speaker Paul Ryan will take advantage of the House recess to lead a bipartisan delegation to the United Kingdom and three other European countries next week to discuss economic and security matters facing NATO member countries, his office announced Wednesday.

Late in the Obama administration, the Department of Health and Human Services enacted a rule to stop states from defunding Planned Parenthood. On Thursday afternoon, the Senate voted 51-50 to overturn that rule.

In a short briefing of reporters in the Oval Office late Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump said he was "disappointed" and "a little surprised, to be honest," that the American Health Care Act did not have the votes to pass the House of Representatives. Flanked by Vice President Mike Pence…

President Trump is "moving on" from health care after the House scuttled a planned Friday afternoon vote on the White House-backed American Health Care Act, says a senior White House aide.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said on Fox News Sunday he "feels very good" about the American Health Care Act's progress in the House on Thursday.

In this episode of THE WEEKLY STANDARD Confab, Fred Barnes stops by to talk about all the players trying to break up Donald Trump and Paul Ryan's cozy relationship of convenience. Can they keep it together long enough to get a healthcare bill passed? And Michael Warren walks us through this week at…

The president's health care reform and his radical budget: RIP. And with them perhaps the era of The Donald as we have come to know and love or hate it.

For decades, a favorite pastime of the Washington press corps has been to find "daylight" between the president and the vice president—a difference of opinion, a dislike, a secret irritation. But not any more.

For decades, a favorite pastime of the Washington press corps has been to find “daylight" between the president and the vice president—a difference of opinion, a dislike, a secret irritation. But not any more.

Another day with the same big and frustrating story for the Trump administration: The effort to repeal and replace Obamacare is not going well. The House bill continues to lose supporters publicly, and not just from the far-right Freedom Caucus.

Who can forget watching in one’s youth the great sitcom Car 54, Where Are You? It aired for just two glorious seasons, from 1961 to 1963, on NBC on Sunday nights from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. It was a memorable touch of wry reality, sandwiched between the fantasies of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of…

House speaker Paul Ryan got himself into trouble Thursday for broadly describing why the GOP considers the risk-sharing under Obamacare between younger and older consumers a failure, leaving out the details that got reporters questioning his understanding of insurance.

House Republicans revealed draft legislation Monday evening designed to allay conservative lawmakers without spooking moderates, reassure wary voters, and not alienate Democrats too much.

It wasn't Ted Kennedy—not that he'd want it to be—but House speaker Paul Ryan quipped Tuesday morning that his dream of entitlement reform hadn't died.

Kudos to the Wall Street Journal's Holman Jenkins for proposing a new corollary to public choice theory: namely, that actions objected to by special interests are motivated by a desire to raise campaign money from special interests.

Amid mixed messaging from the Trump administration, House speaker Paul Ryan was the first major Washington official on Tuesday to announce that the president had asked former national security advisor Michael Flynn for his resignation. Ryan's take, which contradicted White House counselor Kellyanne…

Amid concerns of cold feet in the congressional GOP and noncommittal comments from President Donald Trump, House speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday the House and Senate would conclude their role in repealing and replacing Obamacare by the end of 2017, but cautioned that implementing a new regime will…

Most presidential honeymoons are characterized by congressional and presidential vows of everlasting cooperation, but the policy cohabitations are soon torn asunder by the healthy re-emergence of political differences. President Trump's honeymoon period was different. He chose to abuse his…

House speaker Paul Ryan took note Friday that now is "the first time in a while" Congress and the White House have been like-minded on advancing pro-life causes.

A week from Monday, when the post-inauguration revelries, which include a "Deplorables Ball", are no more, Donald J. Trump, the forty-fifth President of the United States of America, will for the first time become fully aware of the 115th Congress of the United States of America. Although he has…

The House approved a budget Friday providing for Congress to axe the revenue-related portions of Obamacare, teeing up a repeal procedure that congressional Democrats are powerless to stop.

President-elect Donald Trump may have cranked up the heat on Republican lawmakers working to repeal and replace Obamacare, telling the New York Times the two goals must be accomplished "together" in an interview published Tuesday.

Oklahoma senator James Lankford, a member of the intelligence committee, said on CNN Thursday that there's no doubt that Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic campaign officials.

Top GOP officials say their first order of business in the new year is to repeal and replace Obamacare. But the first order itself has a clear first step.

The House formally reelected Paul Ryan to the speakership Tuesday in a vote that was tamer than what the GOP majority has endured in recent years, with only one of his party colleagues defecting.

The House GOP majority reversed course Tuesday on a move that would have weakened an independent congressional watchdog, after party leaders, including President-elect Donald Trump, voiced their opposition to the original action.

The United Nations Security Council passed on Friday a resolution calling for an end to further Israeli settlement—with the United States government and its U.N. ambassador Samantha Power abstaining from the vote. The United States is one of five permanent members of the Security Council with veto…

Reports Friday that U.S. intelligence agencies believe Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign to tilt the election in favor of Donald Trump have sown precisely the kind of confusion that American adversaries must have hoped for with their actions. In an effort to reach some sort of…

House speaker Paul Ryan stepped in Wednesday to block an effort by some House Republicans to partially resurrect earmark spending, six years after the practice was banned. Here's the Wall Street Journal with the report:

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.

Donald Trump's incoming chief strategist and senior counselor, Steve Bannon, has described House speaker Paul Ryan as the "enemy" and has called for his removal from the speakership. But Ryan said at the Capitol Tuesday he is moving past that criticism and called on his fellow Republicans to "look…

Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan, becomes president as the head of the Republican party and leader of a political movement. For Reagan, joining the party with the conservative movement was painless. They fit nicely. For Trump, merging the party with his populist movement won't be as easy. But it's…

Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan, becomes president as the head of the Republican party and leader of a political movement. For Reagan, joining the party with the conservative movement was painless. They fit nicely. For Trump, merging the party with his populist movement won’t be as easy. But it's…

Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, and Kelly Ayotte, and of all you desperate GOP candidates, threading the needle between a working class base in thrall to a demagogue and another fairly large bloc that detests him: Ike feels your pain. So does John Kennedy, and a very large group of the best and the…

No good deed goes unpunished, even if you are House speaker, third in line to the presidency, and didn't want the job in the first place.

House speaker and Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan said he "already voted" for Donald Trump during his state's early voting period, marking a public declaration of support weeks after making a private announcement that he would withdraw from defending and campaigning for his party's nominee.

In this episode of THE WEEKLY STANDARD Confab, Fred Barnes joins host Eric Felten to talk about the cage fight Donald Trump has fashioned for himself and House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ethan Epstein gives us the over-under on Trump's chances to win Nevada. And Andrew Ferguson reports on the epic…

No good deed goes unpunished, even if you are House speaker, third in line to the presidency, and didn’t want the job in the first place.

As House speaker Paul Ryan tries to weather a Trump imbroglio, his GOP counterpart, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, remains silent on the election.

President Barack Obama tried to reassure the American public on Thursday that his health care legislation "worked," amid competition and cost issues in multiple states and skepticism from both sides of the aisle.

Bill Kristol joined MSNBC's Morning Joe on Thursday morning and responded to Donald Trump's refusal at the debate the previous night to say he would accept the results of the presidential election.

House speaker Paul Ryan has issued a statement condemning President Obama's decision to lift trade restrictions with Cuba, the Carribbean island nation still controlled by Fidel and Raúl Castro's Communist regime. Obama announced Friday the United States would be lifting the limits to importing…

Ignoring the besieged, carefully coiffed elephant in the room, House speaker Paul Ryan delivered remarks over the course of 45 minutes Friday in a starkly worded critique of Hillary Clinton and progressivism. It set the table for a Clinton presidency, the stakes of it—and the significance of a…

After John Podesta's apparently hacked emails were leaked by WikiLeaks, the Clinton campaign finds itself under fire after documents showed aides discussing ways to undermine the Catholic church.

Days after House speaker Paul Ryan said he would begin focusing solely on preserving the GOP's House majority, a new poll of congressional races may get Republicans feeling and seeing blue.

During an appearance on On the Record with Brit Hume Tuesday night, WEEKLY STANDARD senior writer John McCormack discussed House speaker Paul Ryan's decision to focus entirely on House races and not campaign with Donald Trump. Ryan made the announcement on a conference call Tuesday with House…

Paul Ryan deserves credit and support for his decision to stop defending and campaigning for Donald Trump, says the Washington Examiner in a new editorial published Wednesday. Here's an excerpt:

It's going to get worse.

House speaker Paul Ryan all but cut and sprinted from the presidential race Monday, telling Republican members that he would spend the election's final month working to preserve the party's congressional majority instead of defending Donald Trump.

On Monday, Bill Kristol asked why Donald Trump can't be "dumped from the ticket."

The emergence Friday of the disgusting Trump tape was a gift to the Republican party. It provided an occasion, at the very last minute, for the party to dump a fundamentally unworthy and radically unfit nominee. At the very least it provided an occasion for the party to separate itself radically…

There is one important sense in which Donald Trump "won" the debate on Sunday night: He did not implode. He wasn't "good," or attractive, or knowledgeable. He was coarse and whiny and unpleasant. He lied constantly. And he became the first presidential candidate in the history of our Republic to…

House speaker Paul Ryan has publicly rooted for a Donald Trump victory this November, but there are still indications the two are on a different page on policy.

Legislation that prohibits future cash payments to Iran passed the House on Thursday. The White House has pledged to veto the legislation, however, saying it would "undermine U.S. obligations and ultimately benefit Iran at the expense of the United States."

Why hasn't there been more disruption in Congress? Looking at the highly disruptive presidential primary campaign, some analysts are scratching their heads and asking that very question. In primary election after primary election, Republican congressional incumbents—such as Paul Ryan, John McCain,…

You might not believe this, but we're just four weeks out from the first presidential debate and behind the scenes, prep is well underway. Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported that Laura Ingraham is helping the Trump campaign prepare for the debates and may even wind up playing the part…

House speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin crushed his GOP primary opponent Paul Nehlen Tuesday by nearly 70 points. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Ryan led Nehlen 84 percent to 16 percent.

Paul Ryan said there could be something Donald Trump would do or say to lose the House speaker's endorsement but that he didn't know what that would be. In an interview Friday with Wisconsin radio host Charlie Sykes, Ryan said no endorsement of a candidate comes with a "blank check" or an…

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell was quick to endorse Donald Trump, waiting fewer than 24 hours after Trump had cleared the Republican primary field. He did so by releasing a 75-word statement at eight o'clock in the evening. And that was that.

On Thursday, Bill Kristol joined MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell to talk about Republicans supporting Donald Trump.

Paul Nehlen, the primary challenger to House speaker Paul Ryan, said this week that he wants to begin a debate about deporting every Muslim from the United States.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD's online editor Mike Warren said Wednesday that Donald Trump is refusing to endorse House speaker Paul Ryan and Arizona senator John McCain in order to provoke his fellow Republicans and manipulate the Republican party's power dynamic.

Donald Trump is refusing to endorse two prominent congressional Republicans in their upcoming primaries—even after both have endorsed him. According to an interview with Washington Post, the GOP nominee says he's "not quite there yet" in endorsing House speaker and Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan,…

The two most powerful Republicans in Congress say the memory of Army captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier who died in Iraq in 2004, should be honored and valued—but both stopped short of criticizing the GOP nominee for president, Donald Trump. Khan's parents spoke out against Trump's…

Let’s make America great again, you say? We'd settle for making the Constitution great again. That's been a goal of Republicans for years, and it's a worthy one. It is essential, in fact, to making America great again.

Politics is a team sport. Ronald Reagan understood that. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell treat politics as a team effort. Ted Cruz isn’t a team player.

On Tuesday night, House speaker Paul Ryan gave a surprisingly enthusiastic speech on behalf of Donald Trump, imploring Republicans to give it their all in 2016 and "unify this party" in the interest of achieving "a conservative governing majority."

House speaker Paul Ryan said Donald Trump is "not my kind of conservative" Monday, as he tried to explain the ideology of the presumptive GOP nominee for president.

The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that aims to prevent the federal government from discriminating against healthcare providers that do not provide abortions.

House speaker Paul Ryan, Senator Marco Rubio, and other leading Republicans spoke in unusually frank terms about race Friday, following a string of fatal confrontations involving black men and law enforcement that have claimed seven lives this week.

House speaker Paul Ryan spoke Friday morning on the floor of the House on the fatal shooting of five police officers in Dallas Thursday.

Multiple GOP lawmakers led by House speaker Paul Ryan have asked Obama administration officials and introduced legislation to revoke Hillary Clinton's security clearance.

After announcing that he wouldn't recommend charging Hillary Clinton with regard to her privately-run email server that improperly stored and disseminated classified information, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan released the following statement:

A new poll from NBC News suggests other high-profile Republicans would perform better in a general election against Democrat Hillary Clinton than would presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

House speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday that the House GOP's new Obamacare replacement is focused more on quality than quantity.

Echoing fellow Wisconsinite and House speaker Paul Ryan, Governor Scott Walker said Tuesday that delegates to the Republican National Convention ought to vote how they see fit.

At a Tuesday morning press conference, House speaker Paul Ryan argued against imposing a ban on Muslims entering the United States.

Almost a half-century ago, the great Donald Westlake published a comic mystery novel, God Save the Mark. It’s probably not one of Westlake's very best efforts (though even a Westlake non-best-effort is awfully good). The "mark" of the title is a reasonably intelligent and likable young man who…

House speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump uttered a “textbook definition of a racist comment" about the fitness of the federal judge in the Trump University case. But the Wisconsin Republican said he remained committed to supporting Trump because the…

Rumors of Paul Ryan's impending endorsement of Donald Trump have been greatly exaggerated. That's according to the House speaker, who said he didn't know the origin a Tuesday evening Bloomberg report that Ryan was hoping to "end his standoff" with Trump and was closer to endorsing the presumptive…

House speaker Paul Ryan responded Tuesday morning to new poll findings that more Republicans trust Donald Trump than him to lead the GOP.

Paul Ryan is not endorsing Donald Trump for president—not yet, at least. But it was clear from the House speaker's Thursday press conference that Ryan is moving in that direction. The Wisconsin Republican told reporters that his meeting with Trump Thursday morning was "encouraging" and "pleasant."

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The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with executive editor Fred Barnes on why Donald Trump needs to make inroads with Congressional Republicans.

There have been two defining moments in Paul Ryan’s political career: The first was his leading the opposition to Obamacare in 2009 and 2010. (Can anyone forget the "Health Summit," or his short speech on the night of the Obamacare vote in the House?) The second was his getting essentially the…

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Fred Barnes says Donald Trump needs to bring conservatives, especially Paul Ryan, into his camp:

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Stephen F. Hayes on the state of the race, one week into the world of Trump as presumptive nominee.

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Stephen F. Hayes on the 2016 election.

House speaker Paul Ryan is not running for president. That became clear several months after the 2012 election, in which Ryan was Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate. At two private dinners, a prominent Republican introduced Ryan to a bipartisan group of influential policy intellectuals…

House speaker Paul Ryan’s address Wednesday was billed as a disquisition on the "state of American politics." But it was less an assessment of our politics than Ryan's own optimistic prescription for improving it. With references to his mentor Jack Kemp and a time when members of Congress "took our…

Today, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan delivered an address on Capitol Hill to a bipartisan group of congressional interns. In the speech, Ryan calls on Americans not to become disheartened by the state of American politics and angry rhetoric. And he urges his fellow politicians not to give in to…

Paul Ryan is the brains of the GOP. With each passing primary victory, Donald Trump is becoming its voice, if not its soul. Their contrast inevitabily will produce a clash. And although the House speaker said Thursday he'd come to terms with the presidential frontrunner, he also reaffirmed his…

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has released a statement on the Republican race, responding directly to Donald Trump but without naming the Republican frontrunner directly.

Those happy days for Democrats and the media—when House Republicans were angry with each other and divided—are over. The archconservatives of the House Freedom Caucus are mostly on board with Speaker Paul Ryan. So is Heritage Action, the serious-minded group that wants the most conservative ideas…

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will host "poverty fighters" for President Obama's State of the Union Address. The speaker will also host Little Sisters of the Poor and a "Hero in the Balcony" at the Capitol on Tuesday.

Contrary to popular belief, The Scrapbook is not interested just in affairs of state or in cultural controversies. The Scrapbook takes a healthy interest in trivial matters as well. Consider, for example, the new speaker of the House, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, whose boyish demeanor has caused a…

In a television interview Thursday, during which he responded to the killings in San Bernardino, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan asserted, "What we have seen—and a common theme among many of these mass shootings—is a theme of mental illness." In the context of the slaughter in southern California,…