7 Potential Speakers of the House
After House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suddenly dropped out of the race to replace John Boehner as House speaker, speculation immediately began on who would now emerge.Here are 7 potential candidates on the radar as Speakers-in-waiting or future candidates for the top job.1. REP. TOM PRICE, R-Ga.Price was one of the two Republicans vying to succeed McCarthy as majority leader. He had gotten a major boost toward that opening with the endorsements of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling of Texas. A physician and former state legislator from Georgia, Price is considered one of his party’s best spokesmen on health care. He earned high marks on the right as chairman of House GOP Study Committee and Policy Committee and now as Budget Committee chairman. More than a few conservatives privately say that they could have lived with McCarthy as speaker if swashbuckling conservative and tea party favorite Price is next in line in the GOP hierarchy. Could that mean Price slides right to the top?
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