Rep. Paul Ryan was elected speaker of the House of Representatives on Thursday. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, won the position in a vote on the House floor with 236 votes. The 45-year-old Ryan was Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential pick in the 2012 election and is a fiscal conservative who once ran the House Budget Committee. Ryan replaces John Boehner of Ohio in the speaker post.
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