John bainer gonna resign

Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress John Beyner is going to leave his post in late October. He stated this on Friday at a press conference.

The politician was repeatedly attacked by the conservative wing of the Republican Party, to which he belongs.

According to him, the protracted crisis in leadership may cause irreparable damage to the House of Representatives.

Ohio lawmaker John Beyner was first elected to Congress in 1991. From the middle of the 2000s, he headed the Republican faction in the House of Representatives - as a minority or majority leader. According to his supporters, 65-year-old Beyner planned to leave politics at the end of last year. After the Pope’s address to the 24 Congress on September, he told two American journalists that after this achievement he had nothing more to do.

For nearly three decades, Beyner was one of the political heavyweights of the Republican Party. At the beginning of 1990, he became one of the leaders of the so-called “republican revolution” - his party won the congressional elections, which were controlled by the democrats for a long time. With his participation, the famous “Contract with America” was drawn up: a list of obligations that republican legislators assumed.

Since 2010, Beyner has served as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. In the US state hierarchy, this post is third in importance: if it is impossible for the president and vice president to fulfill their duties, the speaker assumes the powers of the head of state.

In this post, Beyner proved himself to be a serious opponent of Barack Obama: Republicans under the leadership of Beyner were able to torpedo a number of large-scale initiatives by the Democrat president.

Among the laws that were passed on the initiative or with the active support of Beiner, were laws on helping low-income children. However, his political legacy is extremely controversial: Beyner, a Catholic believer, occasionally spoke from ultraconservative positions. For example, in 2010, Beyner called for the exhibition to be closed at the Smithsonian Museum, which is partly funded by the state, due to the presence of the painting, the author of which, according to Beyner, mocks Christian symbols.

California spokesman Kevin McCarthy, second in the Republican hierarchy in the House of Representatives, is expected to be the lead contender to replace Beyner as House Speaker.

Against the background of this news, Republican lawmakers, who now have the most votes in both houses of Congress, said they would not close the government next week in an attempt to deny funding for the Planned Parenthood Women's Reproductive Health Support Group.