{"id":64654,"date":"2018-05-03T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64654"},"modified":"2018-05-03T05:16:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T05:16:10","slug":"ryan-democratic-house-takeover-would-lead-to-gridlock-and-subpoenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/ryan-democratic-house-takeover-would-lead-to-gridlock-and-subpoenas.html","title":{"rendered":"Ryan: Democratic House takeover would lead to gridlock and subpoenas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Ryan: Democratic House takeover would lead to gridlock and subpoenas<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) reportedly said on Wednesday that if Democrats were to gain control of the House in November&#8217;s midterms, it would lead to gridlock and partisan investigations of President Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Ryan \u2014 who recently announced he would leave Congress after this year \u2014 told the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., that if Democrats win a majority in either chamber of Congress, \u201cwhat you\u2019ll have is absolute gridlock,\u201d The Associated Press reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cYou\u2019ll have subpoenas. You\u2019ll have just the system shutting down,\u201d Ryan added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">For Democrats to win control of the House, they need to flip a net total of 23 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">While Republican control the Senate with a thin 51-49 majority, many argue that it\u2019ll be harder for Democrats to retake control of that chamber because many of the contested seats in this election are in Republican strongholds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Democrats have been critical of the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee for being too lenient in its investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The committee concluded that there was no evidence that Trump\u2019s campaign colluded with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cThere\u2019s a great amount of enthusiasm on the other side of the aisle,\u201d Ryan said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The New York Times reported last month that Republicans plan to energize conservatives to turn out and support the GOP in the midterm elections by telling them that Democrats will move to impeach the president if they win control of the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">At the conference, Ryan also said that the Republican tax-reform law, the decrease in regulations and solid employment figures would help sell the GOP to voters, the AP reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Ryan spoke favorably of Trump at the conference, crediting him with shaking up the political status quo, though he admitted: \u201cI definitely could do with a few less tweets.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Source:-http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/385917-ryan-democratic-house-takeover-would-lead-to-gridlock-and-subpoenas<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/ryan-democratic-house-takeover-would-lead-to-gridlock-and-subpoenas.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan: Democratic House takeover would lead to gridlock and subpoenas Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) reportedly said on Wednesday that if Democrats were to gain control of the House in November&#8217;s midterms, it would lead to gridlock and partisan investigations of President Trump. 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