House GOP nominates Ryan for Speaker

WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans have re-nominated Paul Ryan to be House speaker when next year’s GOP-led Congress starts working on President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda.
House Republicans picked the Wisconsin Republican at a closed-door meeting Tuesday.
Some hard-right GOP lawmakers say Ryan has not been a sufficiently aggressive champion of conservative causes. And some ardent backers of Trump’s candidacy were unhappy that the speaker refused to campaign for Trump and cla