Paul Ryan
Members may face a financial bind without a speaker who's a friend to the donor class.
"I will not be a candidate."
Progressives will need Republicans to defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Key lawmakers are hesitant to back the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
House Republicans have a plan to get their bills past the Senate.
Democrats say the bill actually makes a government shutdown more likely.
The Highway Trust Fund is set to go broke Aug. 1.
Every year about this time the gang at Fox News and others in the Right Wing blogosphere get on their high horse about the "liberal attack on Christmas" -- or President Obama's "attack on Christmas."