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The sergeant-at-arms announcement there, the minority leader nancy pelosi, will present the speaker-elect. and then he will address the members of the house and then after that, we will see the oath of office. and ryan will no longer be speaker-elect, he will be the house speaker. his family in the gallery above. his mom is there. his three kids and his wife janet, from wisconsin. [applause]
Is on the wrong track. we think the country is headed in the wrong direction. and we have an obligation here in the people's house to do the people's business, to give this country a better way forward, to give this country an alternative. we are going to respect the people by representing the people. and i want to thank my colleagues for bestowing on to me this great honor. thank you. >> mr. ryan. >> well, that was short and sweet. >> it was. speaker elect, we think, paul ryan, the full vote is going to be tomorrow. wow, those are some fighting words, guys. he thanked john boehner for his ser...
In the house on top of impeachment playing out. and the way that all sorted out in the end was you had this sort of vacuum thin. with livingston gone, newt gingrich had just stepped down as the speaker. so there was this big power vacuum on the republican side. that's how dennis hastert became speaker at the time. nobody outside of capitol hill had heard of dennis hastert but republicans were really in a jam. the biggest names in the party were off the table and hastert was the only one they could find who just had good personal relationships sort of across the republican spectrum. he was not ...
So there was this big power vacuum on the republican side. that's how dennis hastert became speaker at the time. nobody outside of capitol hill had heard of dennis hastert but republicans were really in a jam. the biggest names in the party were off the table and hastert was the only one they could find who just had good personal relationships sort of across the republican spectrum. he was not a loud guy. he was not known outside of d.c. but that's why they turned to him in that moment. and he was sort of an accidental speaker. >> it's a really important precedent at this point because we look...
Who just had good personal relationships sort of across the republican spectrum. he was not a loud guy. he was not known outside of d.c. but that's why they turned to him in that moment. and he was sort of an accidental speaker. >> it's a really important precedent at this point because we look back at the gingrich era. the whole reason bob livingston was going to be speaker-elect is that gingrich had sort of resigned in disgrace after those mid-terms. so gingrich is out, there's this huge controversy over whether his brand of ideological confrontational brand of republican politics is going t...