{"id":412672,"date":"2015-10-29T16:14:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T21:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=412672"},"modified":"2015-10-30T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T21:14:08","slug":"gohmert-offers-thoughts-on-selection-of-ryan-as-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=412672","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert Offers Thoughts on Selection of Ryan as House Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/louie-gohmert-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/louie-gohmert-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"louie-gohmert-5\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-412673\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert says he voted against newly-chosen Paul Ryan for speaker of the House because Ryan&#8217;s record and vision don&#8217;t line up with East Texas.   Just two of Gohmert&#8217;s concerns: Ryan&#8217;s support of the Wall Street bailout and an amnesty package for illegal immigrants.  But Gohmert says Ryan&#8217;s a good man who does bring some positives to the table.  The Tyler Republican said he&#8217;s looking forward to working with Ryan and that the two of them will look for things that they agree on.   Gohmert commented that he thinks Ryan will &#8220;do a much better job of messaging.&#8221;  Gohmert also noted that Ryan has said he won&#8217;t push some things that Gohmert considers &#8220;damaging.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert says he voted against newly-chosen Paul Ryan for speaker of the House because Ryan&#8217;s record and vision don&#8217;t line up with East Texas. Just two of Gohmert&#8217;s concerns: Ryan&#8217;s support of the Wall Street bailout and an amnesty package for illegal immigrants. But Gohmert says Ryan&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=412672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert Offers Thoughts on Selection of Ryan as House Speaker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":412673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 17:07:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412674,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412672\/revisions\/412674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/412673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}