House Speaker Drama

Guest: Michael Barber, Ph.D., Political Science Professor at BYU  Speaker John Boehner’s abrupt announcement resigning from the House and speakership two and a half weeks ago sparked a frenzy that’s included a couple of hopefuls throwing their hat into the ring. The likely replacement was to be Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California – the next in line after Boehner. Except that he abruptly pulled out of the running, too. And now, as one political scholar puts it, the US House of Representatives has been “flash frozen.”