The usual gang of suspects (big business stooges) are trying to eliminate the rule allowing a vote of no confidence to force the Speaker out in mid-term. There is about to be a quite mischievous lame duck caucus of “Republican” members of the 2014 to 2016 Congress to eliminate that rule and to nominate Paul Eunoch Ryan to be Speaker for 1/2017-1/2019. The actual election of the Speaker will be formally done by the 435 members of the NEW Congress but the nominees are determined this year by outgoing Congress members.