One of Rep. Paul Ryan's "conditions" for accepting the speakership of the House was to get rid of the "motion to vacate" the speaker's chair rule that eventually doomed John Boehner. He didn't think it was appropriate to have this sword of Damocles constantly hovering over his head. This was a sticking poiint with House conservatives on the Freedom Caucus who see the value of holding such leverage over the speaker. Yesterday, Ryan cleared the way for support from the Freedom Caucus by agreeing to make the "motion to vacate" part of a larger discussion of party and House rules reforms that conservatives are demanding. Politico: Rep. Paul Ryan has agreed to delay a discussion about reforming the procedural motion used to remove a House speaker, a major concession to the House Freedom Caucus. The Wisconsin Republican, now the presumptive next speaker of the House, delivered the message to Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the...(Read Full Post)