Paul Ryan

Official portrait, 2018 Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is 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 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 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and Jobs Act of 2017 and the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act in 2018, which partially repealed the Dodd–Frank Act.

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. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Ryan, Paul B.
    Published 1981
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    by Ryan, Paul B.
    Published 1977
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    by Ryan, Paul B.
    Published 1985
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    by Ryan, Paul W. S.
    Published 1959
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    by Ryan, Paul John
    Published 1979
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    by Soisson, Ryan Paul
    Published 1993
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    by Ryan, Paul, 1943-
    Published 2009
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    by Ryan, Paul, 1929-
    Published 2012
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    by Ryan, Paul, 1970-
    Published 2014
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    by Ryan, Paul, 1970-
    Published 2014
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    by Anderson, Lindsay, 1923-1994
    Published 2004
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    by Antill, James M.
    Published 1965
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    Published 1991
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    by Grubb, W. Norton
    Published 1999
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