Ryan, Paul, 1970-

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<p>RYAN, PAUL D., a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Janesville, Rock County, Wis., January 29, 1970; graduated from Joseph A. Craig High School, Janesville, Wis., 1988; B.A., Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1992; construction business; staff, United States Senator Robert Walter Kasten, Jr., of Wisconsin, 1992; staff assistant, Empower America, 1993-1995; staff, United States Senator Sam Dale Brownback of Kansas, 1995-1997; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Sixth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1999-January 3, 2019); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress in 2018; chair, Committee on the Budget (One Hundred Twelfth and One Hundred Thirteenth Congresses); chair, Committee on Ways and Means (One Hundred Fourteenth Congress); chair, Joint Committee on Taxation (One Hundred Fourteenth Congress); unsuccessful Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States in 2012; Speaker of the House (One Hundred Fourteenth and One Hundred Fifteenth Congresses).</p>

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<p>Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is an American retired 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 unsuccessfully alongside Mitt Romney.</p>

<p>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. Ryan was elected to Congress to represent Wisconsin's 1st congressional district the following year, replacing an incumbent Republican who ran for U.S. 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 in October 2015 following John Boehner's retirement.</p>

<p>A self-proclaimed deficit hawk, Ryan was a major proponent of Social Security privatization in the mid-2000s. In the 2010s, two proposals heavily influenced by Ryan—"The Path to Prosperity" and "A Better Way"—advocated 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. As Speaker, he had a role in 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 one vote. Ryan's tenure as Speaker of the House—most of which coincided with a period of unified Republican control of the federal government—saw a significant increase in federal government spending and deficits.</p>

<p>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.</p>

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Name Entry: Ryan, Paul Davis, 1970-

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