In the latest of a string of revelations from the former acting FBI director, he says leading Republicans didn’t object to the counterintelligence probe into Trump.

Leaving Congress with a legacy of empty words.

Hypocrisy and failure are only the beginning: Ryan’s speakership is a story of craven cowardice and collaboration

As speaker, Ryan oversaw the passage of legislation that will add trillions to the deficit.

"Paul Ryan should be focusing on holding the Majority rather than giving his opinions on Birthright Citizenship," the president said.

...saying such a move would be "unconstitutional."

...arguing that House Republicans should stay out their dispute between the two men for now

House GOP leaders are reneging on a vow to hold an immigration vote before the August recess

"My car was eaten by animals. And it's just dead," Ryan said.

The so-called "compromise" legislation -- constructed by House Speaker Paul Ryan to make moderates and conservative happy -- was already on life support before Trump came in and pulled the plug.

Ryan told reporters that the “last thing I want to do is bring a bill out of here that I know the president won’t support.”

The floor votes will effectively stop the effort by moderate Republicans in tandem with Democrats to force a vote on their immigration plans through a so-called discharge petition.

Speaker Paul Ryan and his leadership team were sure the group of three dozen rabble-rousers would cave. The partisan farm bill, after all, includes historic new work requirements for food stamp beneficiaries that conservatives have demanded for years.

It was a rebuke of Speaker Paul D. Ryan by a key bloc of conservatives over his refusal to schedule an immediate vote on a restrictive immigration bill

But Ryan has played an invaluable role covering up and enabling Trump administration scandals. When he says his party needs to keep control of the House to prevent subpoenas, he is both promising the cover-ups will continue if his party keeps its control of government, and expressing his clear belief that he opposes any level of independent oversight of the Executive branch.

Father Conroy said he was blindsided when Mr. Ryan asked him to resign, and suggested politics — specifically a prayer he gave in November when Congress was debating a tax overhaul — may have been a factor in the speaker’s decision.

For years and years, Rep. Paul Ryan’s self-projected “thing” was that he was a geeky budget wonk who was gravely, gravely concerned about the American government’s unsustainable fiscal future.

“This is a Titanic, tectonic shift. … This is going to make every Republican donor believe the House can’t be held.”

It’s unclear whether the GOP pushback will have any effect on Trump, who surprised fellow Republicans Thursday when he announced tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports. He has since dug in deeper on the plans, defending them in a string of posts on Twitter.

...citing a Pennsylvania woman whose paycheck went up by $1.50 a week as a success of the recently passed GOP tax-reform bill.

It used to be the political assumption that if Ryan brought a bill to the floor that did not have the support of the Republican majority, that would be the end of his speakership. But now, there’s a corollary to the Hastert Rule

Rosenstein was spotted entering Ryan's office, and a spokesman for the speaker confirmed that Rosenstein and Wray had requested the meeting. A second person familiar with the meeting said it was related to a document request issued over the summer by House intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes.

McConnell’s comments are a direct blow to the agenda of House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), who has been saying for weeks that Congress will work on ways to reduce spending on Medicare, Medicaid and welfare in the new year.

But now, on the verge of achieving his long-sought legislative dream, he’s got his eyes on the exits.

"Frankly, it's the health care entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt, so we spend more time on the health care entitlements, because that's really where the problem lies, fiscally speaking."

Ryan has yet to allow a single piece of legislation to be governed by an open rule, which allows members to propose changes on the floor.

“And, it is the right thing to do, is to pray in moments like this because you know what? Prayer works.”

A number of the speaker's closest comrades in the House have called it quits in recent weeks because they're tired of President Donald Trump's antics, depressed over the GOP's dearth of legislative accomplishments this year or have personal reasons.

"The speaker does not see anything that changes his view that the Senate should keep its focus on repeal and replace of Obamacare."

Some moderates said that in cutting a deal with Democrats, Mr. Trump may have done the speaker a favor, demonstrating to hard-line conservatives that they cannot always have their way.

...the three members were “frank” about their mounting concerns and warned Ryan that they and others in the House Republican conference could desert him in the coming months if the leadership fails to enact conservative policies.

In a surprising blow to his own party’s congressional leadership, the president on Wednesday struck a deal with Democrats to package nearly $8 billion in Hurricane Harvey relief with a three-month extension of government funding and increase in the debt ceiling.

“We must be clear,” Ryan said after Trump’s remarks. “White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all this country stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.”

But lately, some in the centrist Tuesday Group have started to adopt the power-in-numbers strategy of the Freedom Caucus. And the get-tough approach is yielding results.

Below the leadership level, Republicans are defying Trump more often, and McConnell and Ryan aren’t always standing in their way. You can see this defiance in the bipartisan Senate investigation of the Russia scandal. You can see it in the deal on Russian sanctions.

One could even argue that bog-standard Republicans, under the leadership of Ryan and McConnell, represent an bigger threat to our democracy than Trump, possessing as they do more competence and cunning than the TV-addled overgrown toddler in the White House.

...saying Trump wasn’t “steeped in the long-running protocols” of how to interact with law enforcement and is “new at this.”

“I will not tolerate my peers and I being shamed for voicing our opinions. My generation is the future. I will be working and living in a society created by today’s decisions. So why shouldn’t I be able to speak my truth?”

“Individuals who are 'extremely careless,' close quote,” Ryan said, using the term then-FBI director James B. Comey used to describe Clinton's email practices, “should be denied further access to information.”

Ryan and his top lieutenants decided during a late-night huddle in the Capitol that they still do not have the votes to pass the stalled health-care legislation.

“In the 25 years that I served in the United States Congress,” Mr. Boehner said, “Republicans never, ever, one time agreed on what a health care proposal should look like. Not once. And all this happy talk that went on in November and December and January about repeal, repeal, repeal — yeah, we’ll do replace, replace — I started laughing.”

One can reasonably argue that it wasn’t a health care bill so much as a tax cut for high earners that used cuts to Medicaid, and reduced subsidies on the insurance exchanges, to pay for itself.

Priebus said Sunday that it was purely coincidental that a Fox News personality President Donald Trump had urged social media followers to watch Saturday had called for House Speaker Paul Ryan’s resignation.

“Speaker Ryan, you come in with all your swagger and experience and you sell 'em a bill of goods which ends up a complete and total failure”

And that could make each future negotiation more difficult as the issue matrix gets more complicated and the pockets of internal GOP resistance continue to grow

Unsurprisingly, Speaker Paul Ryan repeatedly told the president that making enemies out of fellow Republicans in the House was not the smartest idea considering that he would need them for other pieces of legislation in the future.

Paul Ryan still upholds the right of Americans to “choose” to go uninsured if they cannot afford to pay the cost of their insurance on their own. His country no longer agrees.

Ryan will remain speaker because no one else wants the job, but in a sense he does not “lead” the House Republicans, let alone the House.

...a dramatic defeat for President Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan that leaves a major campaign promise unfulfilled and casts doubt on the Republican Party’s ability to govern.

The frenzy of activity Thursday laid bare the reality that Trump’s and Ryan’s plan for a vote on Thursday had unraveled over the course of the day

Ryan’s changes aren’t enough for Washington’s most conservative voices

With all due respect to the president's reputation for scrupulously checking his sources, I don't think this is an Irish proverb.

“For the Samaritan’s work is unsustainable and sends the wrong message.”

"Obviously, the major components are staying intact because this is something we wrote with President Trump"

But by underscoring the bill’s effect on the ranks of the uninsured, Congress’s official scorekeeper, the C.B.O., made wavering Senate Republicans all the more skittish of the House’s legislation.

“I can’t answer that question,” Ryan said

But what's been really remarkable is how much heat it's gotten immediately from both the moderate and hard-line and insider and grassroots segments of Ryan's own party.

The furtive visit came as the Trump administration set off this week to reshape the nation’s immigration policy

Spicer did not provide hard data to back up the claim