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Paul Davis Ryan Jr. (born January 29, 1970) is a retired American politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from October 2015 to January 2019. He was also the 2012 vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party, running alongside Mitt Romney.
Ryan, a native of Janesville, Wisconsin, graduated from Miami University in 1992. He spent five years working for Republicans in Washington, D.C. and returned to Wisconsin in 1997 to work at his family's construction company. He successfully ran for Congress to represent Wisconsin's 1st congressional district the following year, replacing an incumbent Republican who ran for Senate. Ryan would represent the district for 20 years. He chaired the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015 and briefly chaired the House Ways and Means Committee in 2015 prior to being elected Speaker of the House following John Boehner's retirement.
A self-proclaimed deficit hawk, Ryan was a major proponent of privatizing Social Security in the mid-2000s. In the 2010s, his proposals "The Path to Prosperity" and "A Better Way" advocated for the privatization of Medicare, block granting of Medicaid, repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and significant tax cuts. As Speaker, he was instrumental in the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. His other major piece of legislation, the American Health Care Act of 2017, passed the House but failed in the Senate by a single vote. Ryan's tenure as Speaker of the House saw a massive increase in government spending and deficits despite unified Republican control of government for most of his tenure and the absence of a recession or of a new foreign conflict.
Ryan did not seek re-election in the 2018 midterm elections, where the Democrats under Nancy Pelosi won control of the House with a net gain of 41 seats.[1]
Ryan, a native of Janesville, Wisconsin, graduated from Miami University in 1992. He spent five years working for Republicans in Washington, D.C. and returned to Wisconsin in 1997 to work at his family's construction company. He successfully ran for Congress to represent Wisconsin's 1st congressional district the following year, replacing an incumbent Republican who ran for Senate. Ryan would represent the district for 20 years. He chaired the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015 and briefly chaired the House Ways and Means Committee in 2015 prior to being elected Speaker of the House following John Boehner's retirement.
A self-proclaimed deficit hawk, Ryan was a major proponent of privatizing Social Security in the mid-2000s. In the 2010s, his proposals "The Path to Prosperity" and "A Better Way" advocated for the privatization of Medicare, block granting of Medicaid, repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and significant tax cuts. As Speaker, he was instrumental in the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. His other major piece of legislation, the American Health Care Act of 2017, passed the House but failed in the Senate by a single vote. Ryan's tenure as Speaker of the House saw a massive increase in government spending and deficits despite unified Republican control of government for most of his tenure and the absence of a recession or of a new foreign conflict.
Ryan did not seek re-election in the 2018 midterm elections, where the Democrats under Nancy Pelosi won control of the House with a net gain of 41 seats.[1]
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House Speaker Paul Ryan delivers his Farewell Address
House Speaker Paul Ryan delivers his farewell address in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress. It is the same setting where he delivered his Confident A...
Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that January 29 is the anniversary of the birth of Republican congressman from Wisconsin Paul Davis Ryan Jr. who served as the 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from October 2015 to January 2019. Paul Ryan is very intelligent, persuasive and humble and brother-in-Christ.
House Speaker Paul Ryan delivers his Farewell Address
"House Speaker Paul Ryan delivers his farewell address in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress. It is the same setting where he delivered his Confident America address in December 2015, shortly after he became speaker. Ryan announced his retirement in April 2018."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqdNaEALcWI
Background from
"Paul Ryan, from conservative wunderkind to House speaker
Paul Ryan's retirement from Congress, just months before the all-important midterm elections, leaves Republicans with a chronic political migraine.
The House of Representatives Speaker's exit will deprive the party of a star fundraiser and clean-cut family man who is as at ease schmoozing mega-donors as he is glad-handing on the front porches of the American heartland.
The Wisconsin congressman and one-time vice-presidential candidate said he was leaving to spend more time with his three teenage children.
But many pundits suspect the 48-year-old wunderkind will be unable to resist the opportunity of one day running for a higher office.
After all, some Republicans openly hoped that Mr Ryan would launch a surprise bid for the presidency in 2016 to rid them of Donald Trump.
Mr Ryan is a man in much demand - in 2015, as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, conservative admirers all but drafted him as speaker.
He is said to have found his job frustrating, partly because of President Trump.
But Mr Ryan regards the US tax code overhaul that he shepherded last year through the lower chamber as the capstone of his legislative career.
Fiscal conservatism
He was born and reared in small-town Janesville, Wisconsin, the son of a lawyer.
Mr Ryan cites the experience of losing his father at the age of 16 - the third generation of his family to die in their 50s - as helping to build his belief in self-reliance.
He is married to tax lawyer Janna Little. The couple have three children and still live in Janesville.
Mr Ryan has spent almost his entire career working in Washington, beginning as an ambitious and energetic Senate staff member.
He was first elected in 1999 at the age of 28 from the same constituency he represents now.
Mr Ryan presents himself as a fiscal conservative, and he championed efforts to cut government spending in his previous role as House Budget Committee chairman.
He is best known for his controversial alternative budget framework, produced to counter President Obama's budgets in 2011 and 2012, which he titled the Path to Prosperity.
The plan suggested $6tn (£3.8tn) be slashed from the federal budget over a decade by cutting food aid, education spending and health programmes for the poor and elderly, and more.
Mr Ryan has also been the lead Republican negotiator on several last-minute budget deals between the parties and the two chambers.
He supports, too, the Republican party's strict social conservative platform, having voted against gay adoption, gay marriage and moves to liberalise abortion laws.
Mr Ryan opposes gun control and voted in support of Donald Trump's plan for a wall along the US border with Mexico.
He has in the past listed conservative heroine Ayn Rand as a strong personal influence, reportedly saying the US writer's work - which praises individualism over altruism - was required reading for his staff.
Why is Ayn Rand so popular?
But he has broken from conservative orthodoxy in the past, both in his political career and his personal life, complicating his effort to woo conservative purists.
He voted for President George Bush Jr's drug programme for senior citizens, a massive public entitlement designed without a guaranteed funding stream. In late 2008, he voted for the bank bailout.
He was accused of hypocrisy after acknowledging that his office lobbied for federal stimulus money in 2009, despite his earlier denials.
But Mr Ryan's appeal to conservative, Tea Party voters was strong enough that Republican nominee Mitt Romney chose him as his running mate for the 2012 election.
All of Washington - especially Donald Trump - will be watching his next move like hawks."
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House Speaker Paul Ryan delivers his Farewell Address
"House Speaker Paul Ryan delivers his farewell address in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress. It is the same setting where he delivered his Confident America address in December 2015, shortly after he became speaker. Ryan announced his retirement in April 2018."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqdNaEALcWI
Background from
"Paul Ryan, from conservative wunderkind to House speaker
Paul Ryan's retirement from Congress, just months before the all-important midterm elections, leaves Republicans with a chronic political migraine.
The House of Representatives Speaker's exit will deprive the party of a star fundraiser and clean-cut family man who is as at ease schmoozing mega-donors as he is glad-handing on the front porches of the American heartland.
The Wisconsin congressman and one-time vice-presidential candidate said he was leaving to spend more time with his three teenage children.
But many pundits suspect the 48-year-old wunderkind will be unable to resist the opportunity of one day running for a higher office.
After all, some Republicans openly hoped that Mr Ryan would launch a surprise bid for the presidency in 2016 to rid them of Donald Trump.
Mr Ryan is a man in much demand - in 2015, as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, conservative admirers all but drafted him as speaker.
He is said to have found his job frustrating, partly because of President Trump.
But Mr Ryan regards the US tax code overhaul that he shepherded last year through the lower chamber as the capstone of his legislative career.
Fiscal conservatism
He was born and reared in small-town Janesville, Wisconsin, the son of a lawyer.
Mr Ryan cites the experience of losing his father at the age of 16 - the third generation of his family to die in their 50s - as helping to build his belief in self-reliance.
He is married to tax lawyer Janna Little. The couple have three children and still live in Janesville.
Mr Ryan has spent almost his entire career working in Washington, beginning as an ambitious and energetic Senate staff member.
He was first elected in 1999 at the age of 28 from the same constituency he represents now.
Mr Ryan presents himself as a fiscal conservative, and he championed efforts to cut government spending in his previous role as House Budget Committee chairman.
He is best known for his controversial alternative budget framework, produced to counter President Obama's budgets in 2011 and 2012, which he titled the Path to Prosperity.
The plan suggested $6tn (£3.8tn) be slashed from the federal budget over a decade by cutting food aid, education spending and health programmes for the poor and elderly, and more.
Mr Ryan has also been the lead Republican negotiator on several last-minute budget deals between the parties and the two chambers.
He supports, too, the Republican party's strict social conservative platform, having voted against gay adoption, gay marriage and moves to liberalise abortion laws.
Mr Ryan opposes gun control and voted in support of Donald Trump's plan for a wall along the US border with Mexico.
He has in the past listed conservative heroine Ayn Rand as a strong personal influence, reportedly saying the US writer's work - which praises individualism over altruism - was required reading for his staff.
Why is Ayn Rand so popular?
But he has broken from conservative orthodoxy in the past, both in his political career and his personal life, complicating his effort to woo conservative purists.
He voted for President George Bush Jr's drug programme for senior citizens, a massive public entitlement designed without a guaranteed funding stream. In late 2008, he voted for the bank bailout.
He was accused of hypocrisy after acknowledging that his office lobbied for federal stimulus money in 2009, despite his earlier denials.
But Mr Ryan's appeal to conservative, Tea Party voters was strong enough that Republican nominee Mitt Romney chose him as his running mate for the 2012 election.
All of Washington - especially Donald Trump - will be watching his next move like hawks."
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The "RINO'ist" of the RINO's!!! Lou Dobbs said Ryan's name will live infamy.
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