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Paul Ryan is an American politician who served as the 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. He was also the vice presidential nominee in the 2012 election with Mitt Romney. Ryan has been a major proponent of Social Security privatization and has influenced national discussions on healthcare and tax policies.
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Paul Davis Ryanis an American politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was the vice presidential nominee in the 2012 election with Mitt Romney, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Ryan is a native of Janesville, Wisconsin, and graduated from Miami University in 1992. He spent five years working for Congress in Washington, D.C., becoming a speechwriter, then returned to Wisconsin in 1997 to work at his family’s construction company. He was elected to Congress to represent Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district the following year, replacing Mark Neumann, who had vacated the seat to run for U.S. Senate. Ryan went on to 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.
A self-proclaimed deficit hawk, Ryan was a major proponent of Social Security privatization in the mid-2000s. During the 2010s, two proposals heavily influenced by Ryan–“The Path to Prosperity” and “A Better Way”–became part of the national dialogue advocating for the privatization of Medicare, the conversion of Medicaid into a block grant program, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, and significant federal tax cuts. In October 2015, after Speaker John Boehner’s resignation, Ryan was elected to replace him. During his speakership, he played a key role in the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act in 2018, which partially repealed the Dodd-Frank Act. His other major piece of legislation, the American Health Care Act of 2017, passed the House but failed in the Senate by one vote, famously withheld by fellow Republican, Senator John McCain in the last year of his life.
Ryan declined to run for re-election in the 2018 midterm elections. With the Democratic Party taking control of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi succeeded Ryan as Speaker of the House.
Paul Ryan is an American politician who served as the 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. He was also the vice presidential nominee in the 2012 election with Mitt Romney.
Paul Ryan was the vice presidential nominee in the 2012 election, running with Mitt Romney, but they lost to incumbent President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
During his speakership, Paul Ryan played a key role in the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act in 2018, which partially repealed the Dodd–Frank Act.
Paul Ryan was a major proponent of privatizing Medicare and converting Medicaid into a block grant program. His proposal, the American Health Care Act of 2017, passed the House but failed in the Senate by one vote.
Paul Ryan is a native of Janesville, Wisconsin, and graduated from Miami University in 1992.
As a member of the Republican Party, Paul Ryan was a self-proclaimed deficit hawk and a major proponent of Social Security privatization in the mid-2000s.
Paul Ryan served as the 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019, before the Democratic Party took control of the House and Nancy Pelosi succeeded him as Speaker.
Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
What I’m concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies – an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as ‘investment.’
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we’re talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I’m a numbers guy, that’s my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I’m in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That’s exactly what I should be doing.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
That’s the real secret to job creation – not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That’s a layer of transparency that’s sorely needed in America.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren’t going to keep on giving us cheap rates.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody’s getting a tax cut here. We’re not cutting taxes. We’re preventing tax increases from occurring.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country’s biggest challenges. The country’s biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I’m really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
We’re saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who’ve already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it’s not change, it’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship. We don’t need demagoguery, we need solutions.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative – not political clout – determines who succeeds.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation’s history, the President’s policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
If you’re running for president, you’ve got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I’ve not done any of those things. It’s not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
We believe, as our founders did, that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
I don’t consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Hiding spending does not reduce spending.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
If we don’t make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
I don’t want to get into the ‘who’s a hostage-taker’ discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It’s a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it’s really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it’s a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what’s working in healthcare. We want to fix what’s broken in healthcare.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government’s role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama’s budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
We need leadership. We don’t need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Here’s the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people’s prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature’s God, not from government.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
If we didn’t propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019
We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I’ve got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you’re not listening to them.
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019