THE SPEAKER
Congressman Paul Ryan was appointed the new Speaker of the House after receiving 236 votes from members of Representatives. Ryan’s first address to the House as Speaker touched upon many subjects.
He began with a tribute to former Speaker John Boehner as well as talking about the massive divides that exist within government and how America’s two parties should pray for one another. In his first speech to the house, Ryan made pleas for each party to begin anew.
“We are not solving problems. We are adding to them. And I am not interested in laying blame. We are not settling scores. We are wiping the slate clean,” Ryan said. Much of Ryan’s points were on bipartisan politics.
“We have nothing to fear from honest differences honestly stated. If you have ideas, let’s hear them,” Ryan said. Ryan is perhaps best known to the American public as the rising-star candidate who accepted the position as Mitt Romeny’s running mate in his 2012 bid for the presidency.
THE DEBATE
Following last week’s debate, the Republican candidates tore into CNBC and the treatment that they received during the course of the debate. These
complaints resulted in the Republican National Committe cancelling a future debate with affiliate NBC.
The following were remarks made by Senator Ted Cruz (Texas) about the progress of the debate while on stage: “The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.”
Cruz then added that the media was more interested in pitting the candidates against one another, as if in a cage match, than actually asking the candidates questions concerning “substantiative issues that people care about.”
Throughout the course of the debate, moderators John Harwood, Becky Quick and Carl Quintanilla tried to laugh off several of these complaints made by candidates (notably Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio).
Following these criticisms, both Brian Steele, CNBC’s senior vice president for public relations, and Presidet Barack Obama both made separate comments that called into question the Republican candidates and their responses to the moderators’ line of questioning.
The next Republican debate will take place next week – November 10 – on Fox Business Network.
Brian Laughran
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