WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan was
unanimously nominated on Tuesday by his fellow Republicans for re-election as
speaker in the new Congress next year, the House Republican Conference said on
Twitter.
Ryan, who faced no challengers for the post from within Republican
ranks, was nominated during a closed-door meeting of all Republican lawmakers
in the House. He will face an election in January, when all members of the new
House, both Democrats and Republicans, vote on a new speaker.
Republicans kept their majorities in both the House and Senate in the
Nov. 8 elections in which voters elected Republican Donald Trump to the White
House over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
"It is a tremendous honor to be nominated by my colleagues to serve
as speaker of the House," Ryan said on Twitter. "Now it's time to go
big."
Republicans also re-elected three other lawmakers to leadership
positions: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House Republican Whip Steve
Scalise, and the chairwoman of the Republican conference, Cathy McMorris
Rodgers.
By Reuters.
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