Paul Ryan

Born: January 29, 1970, in Janesville, Wis.

Home: Janesville

Education: B.A., Miami University of Ohio, 1992

Religion: Catholic

Military Experience: none

Family: Wife: Janna; children: 3

Professional Career: Aide, U.S. Sen Bob Kasten, 1992 | Advisor & speechwriter, Empower America, 1993-95 | Legis. dir., U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, 1995-97 | Mktg. consultant., Ryan Inc. Central, 1997-98

(Read Rep. Ryan's Almanac of American Politics profile)

Romney and Ryan

The Romney-Ryan 2012 Ticket

• Why Ryan Could Make Romney Victory Harder
• 5 Advantages, Hazards of Romney-Ryan Ticket
• Ryan Offers Teary Tribute at Homecoming Rally
• Romney and Ryan Go After Obama on CBS
• Ryan Budget in Hill Races Offers Insights
• Timeline: Rise of Paul Ryan | Who is Paul Ryan? | Almanac profile
NEED TO KNOW: PAUL RYAN
CAMPAIGN 2012 November 7, 2012

Ryan Emerges From Campaign With Higher Profile, 2016 Options

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Paul Ryan won’t be helping Mitt Romney lead the country in a new direction from the White House. But the congressman famous for his small-government budget blueprints has emerged from his first national race with high visibility and a top spot on any list of 2016 presidential prospects. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 November 4, 2012

Ryan Tries to Move Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota Into Romney Column

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Sunday was the last chance for nominee Mitt Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, to try to work political magic both regionally and ideologically for the Republican ticket in a handful of key battleground states. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 October 16, 2012

Ryan's Soup Kitchen Visit Goes Awry

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A weekend visit to a soup kitchen blew up on vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, prompting a protest from the charity’s president that news reports later found to be partially inaccurate. Read more »
ELECTION ANALYSIS October 12, 2012

Spirited Biden Debate Performance Allows Democrats to Exhale

By Beth Reinhard
Democrats, you may exhale. But don't you dare rejoice. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 September 21, 2012

Ryan to Challenge Obama on Medicare at AARP

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Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, whose plans for Medicare are under attack by President Obama and other Democrats, will promise an honest conversation on entitlements in a speech at an AARP conference Friday in New Orleans, just after Obama addresses the group by satellite. Read more »
CONVENTIONS 2012 August 29, 2012

Ryan Speech Shows GOP Strategy on Medicare

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Paul Ryan’s forceful but prosaic acceptance speech Wednesday continued one of the campaign’s most surprising strategic twists: the Republican effort to take the offensive on Medicare. Read more »
CONVENTIONS 2012 August 29, 2012

Ryan Takes Attack Dog Role

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Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan stepped up to the podium Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention and assumed his position as Romney’s chief attack dog. Read more »
CONVENTIONS 2012 August 29, 2012

Has Ryan Already Won Victory He Seeks?

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Rep. Paul Ryan has already won the political victory he craves, regardless of whether the Republicans take the White House. His budget blueprints, though controversial when he first introduced them, have morphed into the intellectual backbone of the Republican Party. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 23, 2012

Ryan: Obama on Notice to ‘Put Up or Shut Up’ With Defense Cuts Plan

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Thursday condemned President Obama in his harshest terms yet for forcing mandatory defense cuts into last summer’s agreement to raise the debt ceiling, saying that Congress has told the president to “put up or shut up” by disclosing how the cuts would be implemented. Read more »
INSIDE TAMPA August 23, 2012

Inside Tampa: August 25, 2012

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Paul Ryan hits the gyms, eats healthy. Plus: Charity golf tourneys to influence policymakers. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 22, 2012

Ryan Grilled on Abortion and 'Forcible Rape'

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ROANOKE, Va. – Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, in his first solo public statement about controversial comments made by Missouri Senate hopeful Todd Akin, called Akin’s comments “outrageous” in an interview with KDKA Pittsburgh. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 18, 2012

Paul Ryan Makes an Emotional Pitch for Medicare Plan in Florida

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Paul Ryan made a highly emotional appeal for his Medicare reforms and slammed a 15-member board charged with slowing the cost growth of the popular entitlement program. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 13, 2012

Paul Ryan's 'Young Guns' Activists Known for Confrontation

By John Aloysius Farrell
When Mitt Romney tapped Rep. Paul Ryan , R-Wis.,for the Republican vice presidential nomination, he chose more than a man. He got a movement. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 13, 2012

Poll: Ryan Gets Lower Marks Than Palin, Biden in 2008

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Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan may have been a big hit with Republicans in Washington, but Americans nationwide generally gave Mitt Romney’s new running mate lower marks in a new USA Today /Gallup poll . Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 13, 2012

Obama Video Attacks Romney-Ryan on Medicare

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In a widely anticipated move, the Obama campaign released a new Internet video on Monday attacking Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on proposed cuts to Medicare. Read more »
ANALYSIS August 13, 2012

Romney-Ryan Ticket Brings Lame Duck Debate Forward

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The tax and spending debates that Beltway insiders predicted would not begin in earnest until after the election have suddenly been thrust onto the national stage, thanks to Rep. Paul Ryan’s new spot on the Republican presidential ticket. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 12, 2012

Ryan Offers Teary Tribute to Wisconsin at Homecoming Rally

By Sarah Huisenga and
WAUKESHA, Wis. – It was an emotional homecoming for Republican Rep. Paul Ryan. Just 48 hours after he snuck out his back door to make his way to the announcement of his vice presidential candidacy in Norfolk, Va., he returned as a home-state hero. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 12, 2012

Romney and Ryan, a Matched Pair, Go After Obama on CBS

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The new Romney-Ryan team, looking for all the world like two people who had been partners for far more than 36 hours, moved swiftly Sunday to try to blunt Democratic lines of attack on the Republican ticket. The pair used an interview with CBS to insist it is President Obama – and not Rep. Paul Ryan through his dramatic budget plan – who is “robbing” Medicare and threatening the nation’s elderly. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 12, 2012

Obama Welcomes Ryan to Race, Attacks His Budget Ideas

By National Journal Staff
A day after Rep. Paul Ryan joined the Republican ticket, President Obama welcomed him to the campaign as "the ideological leader of the Republicans in Congress" and said he completely disagrees with the economic plans advanced by the GOP running mates. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 12, 2012

Ryan Could Make Wisconsin a True Battleground

By Beth Reinhard
Wisconsin Republicans were talking smack in early summer, insisting that Gov. Scott Walker’s victory in the June recall election proved the state was up for grabs in 2012. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 12, 2012

Lines of Attack and Defense Emerge Over Ryan

By John Aloysius Farrell
Democratic and Republican partisans and campaign operatives used Sunday's talk shows as a forum to hone the lines of attack they have chosen for the coming days and weeks. Read more »
SUNDAY SHOWS August 12, 2012

Gingrich Now Amenable to Ryan Medicare Provision

By National Journal Staff
Though he once decried Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposal as “right wing social engineering,” Newt Gingrich said on Sunday that he no longer has major problems with Ryan’s plan. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 12, 2012

Republicans in Tight Races on Defense over Ryan

By Billy House
As Democrats tell it, Paul Ryan’s name on a national ticket crystalizes the choice in congressional elections everywhere because Republicans won’t be able to distance themselves enough from the Wisconsin Republican’s controversial Medicare reform proposals. Read more »
CAMPAIGN 2012 August 12, 2012

Romney: Ryan Didn't Want to End Up in Washington

By and Sarah Huisenga
MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Campaigning in the heart of NASCAR country, Mitt Romney on Sunday described his new running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan , as a man whose “career ambition was not to go to Washington,” despite the fact that the Wisconsin congressman has spent his entire career there. Read more »
ANALYSIS August 12, 2012

How Biden and Ryan Stack Up

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When Joe Biden and Paul Ryan debate in Danville, Kentucky on October 11, it’ll be one of the more interesting moments in American politics and it will be the test for Paul Ryan.   Read more »
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