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Paul Ryan Offers Strong Endorsement For New Financial Rule To Rein In Risky Trading
ELKHORN WI — At a Wisconsin town hall last week, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) offered his strongest endorsement yet of a key financial reform generally pushed by Democratic lawmakers. In the past, Ryan held a more lukewarm position on the Volcker Rule, where he endorsed the concept in theory but not in name. By banning [...]
Confronted By Furloughed EPA Worker, Ryan Edits Out His Responsibility For The Sequester
RACINE, WI — At a town hall meeting on Wednesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was confronted by one of the more than 1 million federal workers affected by across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration. David Novak, who works for the Environmental Protection Agency in Wisconsin, confronted Ryan over the impact the sequester is having: For [...]
Paul Ryan Uses Derogatory Term For Undocumented People To Argue For Immigration Reform
WISCONSIN — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the latest GOP champion of an immigration reform bill in the House of Representatives, used an offensive term for undocumented people while touring town halls in Wisconsin this week to deliver the conservative pitch for comprehensive immigration reform. Show More Summary
Paul Ryan Regrets Voting Against Same-Sex Adoption
WISCONSIN — Former GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a Wisconsin town hall audience on Monday that he now supports the right of same-sex couples to adopt children, even though he still opposes marriage equality. Confronted by an audience member about his anti-LGBT voting record — Ryan earned a “zero percent” score on gay [...]
How Paul Ryan Can Work With The Pro-Choice Community To Reduce Abortions
On Thursday night, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) called on anti-choice activists to work together with the pro-choice community to stop abortions. The former Vice Presidential candidate made the request during a speech for the Susan B Anthony List, a group with the goal of electing anti-choice Republican women: “To advance the pro-life cause, we need [...]
Paul Ryan Stumped: Can’t Name A Single Area Of Compromise In His Budget
The budget plan President Obama released this morning is squarely aimed at brokering a long-term fiscal compromise with House Republicans, who have demanded entitlement cuts and other spending reductions to reduce the nation’s deficit. Obama’s budget mirrors the compromise offer he made to House Speaker John Boehner (R) in fiscal cliff negotiations, offering less in [...]
Economists Disagree With Paul Ryan’s Claim That ‘Debt Is Crushing Our Economy’
Over the past three years, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has repeatedly introduced budget resolutions that contain draconian spending cuts in an effort to stave off the debt crisis he says is right around the corner if it isn’t addressed immediately. Ryan’s plans, all three of which have passed the House of Representatives, [...]
GOP Voting For House Budget’s Big Oil Giveaway Receive $38 Million In Oil Cash
By a vote of 221-207, Republicans passed Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget for the third consecutive year. The House Republican budget slashes funding for poverty programs and dramatically transforms Medicare for seniors, all while it grants tax breaks to special interests like Big Oil. Ryan’s budget could mean a $2.3 billion additional tax break for [...]
The Myth Of ‘Dependency’: Almost All Households On Food Stamps Will Be Employed Within A Year
One of House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) favorite ways of defending the House Republicans’ budget is to claim the social safety net represents a moral threat to Americans’ character, as well as a fiscal threat to their country’s budget. He’s incessantly warned of luring “able-bodied people into lives of dependency and complacency” and [...]
House GOP Approves Budget That Cuts Taxes For Millionaires, Slashes The Social Safety Net
The House of Representatives this afternoon approved the Republican budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) by a vote of 221-207, with 197 Democrats and 10 Republicans voting against it. Three Democrats and one Republican did not vote. For the third consecutive year, the House GOP has approved a budget that ends the traditional [...]
Ryan Rules Out Any Compromise Over New Revenues
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said he would not support revenue increases in budget negotiations with Democrats during an appearance on Bloomberg TV Tuesday morning, explaining that the nation must reform the tax code by lowering rates and “plugging loopholes” and achieve a balanced budget with spending cuts alone. “We propose 4.6 trillion dollars in spending [...]
INFOGRAPHIC: House Republicans, Senate Democrats Offer Competing Visions For The Federal Budget
Last year, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and his radical House budget rode a wave of conservative popularity all the way to a spot on the Republican Party’s presidential ticket. Six months and one resounding electoral defeat later, Ryan’s popularity has collapsed and even his Republican allies are disavowing his ‘cut first, ask questions later’ approach [...]
Five Reasons Washington Shouldn’t Panic About The Debt
Once again, the March budget season has arrived, and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has engineered another draconian fiscal vision for the House Republicans. The plan would radically remake Medicare, decimate Medicaid, grant a huge tax cut to the wealthy, and slash support for the poor, investments, and civic infrastructure. Ryan and his cohorts justify these [...]
The Progressive Caucus’ Budget Invests Where It Matters
Our guest blogger is Sarah Ayres, a Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress. Earlier this week, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) released a budget proposal that would undermine America’s long-term economic growth and competitiveness by slashing critical investments in education, science and technology, and infrastructure. If Ryan’s budget is an example of what not [...]
Rep. Ryan Needs To Learn Something (Anything!) About Clean Energy
What do you call a future of dangerous pollution, catastrophic extreme weather events, giveaways to Big Oil companies, and even greater reliance on fossil fuels? If you’re House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), you call it “The Path to Prosperity.” Not coincidentally, that’s the name of the fiscal year 2014 budget plan Rep. Ryan [...]
House Appropriations Chair Takes Down Republican Budget: It ‘Cuts Too Much’
Even the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee thinks Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget goes too far. On Thursday night, Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) — who represents the second poorest Congressional district in the country — told a local Kentucky station that he will vote for the House Republican budget. But, he said, he will [...]
Back To 1948: Ryan’s Fantasy Budget Cuts Spending To Its Lowest Level In 65 Years
Over at Investors.com, Jed Graham ran the numbers on Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) new budget for the House GOP, and found that by 2023, it would drive all government spending that isn’t either Social Security or interest on the debt to its lowest level since 1948. On only three other occasions in the last 60 [...]
14 GOP Congressmen Who Think Government Shouldn’t Borrow Have Big Debts Of Their Own
As Congressional Republicans again rally around Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget and its goal of eliminating the deficit in ten years, many are using an old talking point. They claim that the federal government should model itself on the federal government stop spending more money than it takes in. But a ThinkProgress examination of recent [...]
Paul Ryan Learns Nothing from Historic Gender Gap: Budget Guts Women’s Health Programs
Our guest blogger is Lindsay Rosenthal, a Research Assistant for Health Policy and Women’s Health and Rights at the Center for American Progress. The 20 point gender gap in the 2012 election was the largest since Gallup poll began tracking in 1952 — the Obama-Biden ticket beat the Romney-Ryan ticket by a large margin with [...]
Eight Things Paul Ryan Wishes You Didn’t Know About His Energy Budget
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his fiscal year 2014 budget yesterday. Once again, he offers a path to prosperity that is limited to corporate special interests like Big Oil. Despite nearly two-thirds of Americans echoing President Obama’s push to tackle climate change through regulation, Ryan decided to concentrate his energy strategy on [...]