in place. the rules committee will decide what the rules are. but i would encourage the delegates to put in place a rule that says you can only nominate for someone that ran for the job. reporter: does that mean that you think it should only be the three candidates remaining? paul ryan: i will leave it up to the delegates. i believe if you want to be president, you should run for president. when we select a nominee, we should be selected so when who actually ran for the job. i will leave it at that. thank you very much. i appreciate it. is thee and inefficiency subject of a committee. liveentatives --

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visit student cam.org. theaste and inefficiency is subject of a house oversight and government reform committee this morning. and representatives from the pentagon, irs, and centers for medicaid and medicare. next on c-span, "washington l."rna coming up in about 45 minutes, tom rice on tax reform proposals and the republican budget. then pennsylvania congressman brendan boyle looks at some of the issues before the house foreign affairs and oversight

and government reform committees. later, mark warren, talks about his "esquire" magazine willing at the blurring lines between politics and entertainment. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. isit ncicap.org] host: good morning. it's wednesday, april 13, 2016, and in the headlines for today's "washington journal," house speaker paul ryan ruled out a presidential bid amid growing speculation that he might enter the race for the republican nomination at the party's convention should the delegates fail to choose a nominee on the first ballot. meanwhile, newly confirmed educational secretary john king was on the hill on the every student succeeds act but he faces criticism from committee chairman lamar