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AP: Paul Ryan Elected Speaker of the House
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans rallied behind Rep. Paul Ryan to elect him the House’s 54th speaker on Thursday as a splintered GOP turned to the youthful but battle-tested lawmaker to mend its self-inflicted wounds and craft a conservative message to woo voters in next year’s elections. In a slow-moving roll call that mixed politics with pageantry, 236 …