Answer the following Q with stream of consciousness. Passage: An election for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives took place on January 3, 2017, during the opening day of the 115th United States Congress. The incumbent speaker, Paul Ryan, was re-elected. The election took place following the Republican Party's victory in the United States House of Representatives elections, 2016.

Question: Based on this passage, the name of the speaker of the house now?
To answer the above question, the relevant sentence is: The incumbent speaker, Paul Ryan, was re-elected. Therefore, the final answer is Paul Ryan.