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Undated:
Paul Davis Ryan Jr. (born January 29, 1970) is an American politician
serving since 2015 as the
54th
Speaker of the
United States House of Representatives. He was the
2012
vice presidential nominee of the
Republican Party, running alongside
Mitt
Romney.
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 following
John
Boehner's retirement.
Ryan was a major proponent of privatizing
Social Security in the mid-2000s. In the 2010s, his proposals "The
Path to Prosperity" and "A
Better Way" advocated for the privatization of
Medicare,
block
granting of
Medicaid, repeal of the
Affordable Care Act, and significant tax cuts. As Speaker, he was
instrumental in the 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 a single vote. Ryan did not seek re-election to the House in the
2018 elections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan
-- 2018 --
January
21: House
Speaker Paul Ryan collected nearly $500,000 in campaign contributions from
Charles Koch and his wife after helping usher through a massive tax reform law.
According to
a recent campaign finance report filed Thursday, Koch and his wife Elizabeth
each donated $247,7000 to Ryan’s joint fundraising committee.
Five other donors, including billionaire businessmen Jeffery Hildebrand and
William Parfet, each contributed $100,000 in the last quarter of 2017, according
to the records, which were first
reported by the International Business Times.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/paul-ryan-gets-massive-donations-from-billionaires-after-helping-pass-tax-reform-report
January 25: Paul Ryan Is the Silent Partner
in Trump’s War on the Rule of Law
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/paul-ryan-silent-partner-in-trumps-war-on-the-rule-of-law.html
April 11:
US House Speaker Paul Ryan to retire in blow to Republicans
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43729218
April 11: Paul Ryan's Unexpected Exit Is a
Warning Sign for Republicans
House Speaker Paul Ryan and White House chief of staff John Kelly made the
obligatory small talk as they shared an elevator in a hotel in Austin in early
April. They asked about each other’s families, groused about allergy season and
complained that hotels are always too air-conditioned. But hanging in the air
between them, Ryan told friends, was a mutual sympathy for their shared burden:
President Donald J. Trump.
There wasn’t much to say, really, or much to be done. Both have found working
with the President to be an infinitely frustrating task. Both had resigned
themselves to trying to limit the damage.
http://time.com/5236804/paul-ryan-retire-decision/
April 11: Donald Trump Takes Out Paul Ryan,
and ‘It’s Going to Be a Civil War’
Ryan and his caucus hoped to run on the tax cut, the economy, and
infrastructure. All of these messages now will be swept aside. Ryan owns his
share of the blame; too often, he behaved as if he was some deferential junior
VP at a Trump resort and not the leader of the House of Representatives in a
co-equal branch of government. The idea, popular among the House leadership,
that a diet of ass-kissing and deference would make Trump into a normal
president who didn’t need the political equivalent of Depends was always a
strategic mistake.
Ryan is now paying the price. The rest of his caucus will pay in the fall.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-takes-out-paul-ryan-and-its-going-to-be-a-civil-war
April 12:
Paul Ryan Is Poised to Earn Millions When He Retires Next Year
http://fortune.com/2018/04/12/paul-ryan-net-worth/
July 16:
Paul Ryan contradicts Trump: 'No question that Russia interfered in our
election'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/16/house-speaker-paul-ryan-contradicts-trump-says-russia-meddled-2016/789061002/
October 17: Paul Ryan worries tribal
identity politics is "becoming the new norm" for both sides
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-ryan-worries-tribal-identity-politics-is-becoming-the-new-norm-for-both-sides/
November
30: Paul Ryan questions California's 'bizarre' vote-counting process
House Speaker Paul Ryan questioned the legitimacy of California’s
ballot-counting process Thursday, adding to claims from many Republicans that
the state’s election procedures are flawed.
“It defies logic to me,” Ryan told the
Washington Post. “We had a lot of wins that night, and three weeks later we
lost basically every contested California race. This election system they have,
I can’t begin to understand what ballot harvesting is.”
"Ballot harvesting" is when a third party collects completed ballots from voters
and hands them over to election officials. The practice was legal for the first
time in California this year.
Ryan has not accused California of any wrongdoing.
Alex Padilla, the state's top election official, fired back at Ryan on Twitter,
saying the state makes sure "every ballot is properly counted and accounted for.
That’s not 'bizarre,' that’s DEMOCRACY.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/paul-ryan-questions-californias-vote-counting-process-as-bizarre
December
6: Paul Ryan’s bittersweet exit shows the limits of ideas in politics
By congressional tradition, three separate portraits of Ryan have been painted (paid
for by private funds and not taxpayers) and are being unveiled before he
goes back to Wisconsin after two decades as a lawmaker.
One canvas will hang in the hearing room of the House Budget Committee, which
Ryan chaired for four years. Another will go to the Ways and Means Committee,
where Ryan was chairman less than a year. The third will commemorate Ryan’s
three years as House speaker and will hang in the
Speaker’s Lobby, just off the House floor.
The budget committee likeness was unveiled in a low-key ceremony last week in
the oft-used Rayburn Room, with light hors d’oeuvres and drinks. Ryan mingled
with guests and friends. His brother Stan was there. The mood was light and
celebratory.
But there was a bittersweet subtext, even a bit of sadness. This was not the
ending Ryan and his allies had imagined. The 48-year-old Wisconsinite’s
conservatism, ascendant just a few years ago, has been curb-stomped and cast
ignominiously aside by
President Trump and his followers.
https://news.yahoo.com/paul-ryans-bittersweet-exit-shows-limits-ideas-politics-100010783.html
December 11: 'Double standards': Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez says Paul Ryan was hailed as a 'genius' when he was elected at 28
but she gets called a 'fraud'
"Double standards are Paul Ryan being elected at 28 and immediately being given
the benefit of his ill-considered policies considered genius; and me winning a
primary at 28 to immediately be treated with suspicion & scrutinized, down to my
clothing, of being a fraud," she wrote.
Ocasio-Cortez was replying to a
tweet from
Ezra Klein, Vox's editor at large, who shared an article about the
increasing federal deficit under Ryan and argued that Ryan had fallen short of
his early promises.
https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-paul-ryan-elected-28-2018-12
December 12: Paul Ryan blocks House from
taking up Yemen bill
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday pushed language through the House
that will prevent lawmakers from taking up any resolution to end U.S. support
for the war in Yemen this year.
The language was passed just as the Senate was set to start debate on a
resolution that aims to end U.S. involvement in Yemen, a response to
anger over Saudi Arabia's involvement in the death of dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/paul-ryan-blocks-house-from-taking-up-yemen-bill
December
12: Paul Ryan’s Compromised Legacy
The retiring House speaker leaves behind a near-trillion-dollar debt and a
Trumpian GOP.
As he readies his escape from the wreckage wrought by the blue wave, Paul Ryan
is patting himself on the back for a job well done. During an
exit interview on November 30, the lame-duck House speaker and Republican
leader declared: “I’d say we became a pretty good governing party … I think
history is going to be very good to this majority.”
His self-assessment is not universally shared. The ex-Republican strategist
Steve Schmidt, who rarely minces words, likely spoke for many when he shared
this perspective last April, on the day Ryan announced that he would bail in
December: “Paul Ryan’s monument will be the putrid and smoldering ruins of the
Republican Party and conservative movement that he betrayed with his complicity
and cowardice. He lacked the guts to stand for decency and the wisdom to
confront the threat of Trumpism.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/paul-ryans-legacy-compromised-his-trump-support/577942/
December 14: As new deficit figures arrive,
Paul Ryan sails away on a sea of red ink
The U.S. budget deficit for the last fiscal year, which ended in September, was
$779 billion, up 16% from the previous year. As we recently
discussed, that deficit was the fifth largest in modern American history –
in non-inflation adjusted terms – and stood at 3.9% of GDP, up from 3.5% a year
prior.
Just so we’re clear, the budget deficit for 2019 is already over $300 billion.
In the not-too-distant past, that would’ve been a fairly significant budget
shortfall over a 12-month span. Now it’s the deficit over just the first two
months of the fiscal year.
“As he prepares to leave office, Ryan says that debt reduction is one of those
things ‘I wish we could have gotten done,’” Vox’s Ezra Klein
wrote this week. “Ryan, the man with the single most power over the federal
budget in recent years, sounds like a bystander, as if he watched laws happen
rather than made them happen. To understand the irony and duplicity of that
statement, you need to understand Ryan’s career.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/new-deficit-figures-arrive-paul-ryan-sails-away-sea-red-ink
December
15: Paul Ryan Pushing Through Thousands Of Irish Visas Before Leaving
Office
The House speaker previously blocked efforts to help Dreamers.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/speaker-paul-ryan-pushing-through-thousands-of-irish-visas-before-leaving-office_us_5c154703e4b009b8aea7c0fa
December 20: Paul D. Ryan ended his
congressional career in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress, beneath a
stained-glass vaulted ceiling whose grandiosity emphasized the smallness of the
ceremony below.
It was small in a good way, as in intimate and humble. The retiring House
speaker made his goodbye speech Wednesday to fewer than 200 family members,
congressional staffers and public officials — “all my friends and colleagues,”
he said.
And it was small in a less good way, as a reminder of Ryan’s vanishing power
over the past two years. Once hailed as the intellectual leader of his party and
the fiscal savior of a debt-ridden United States, he became speaker in 2015 only
to see his party and country fall into the hands of President Trump, as the debt
swelled and Democrats seized the House in the midterm elections.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/paul-ryans-small-sad-goodbye/2018/12/20/40f69d80-0466-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.11c5612d15a6
December
25: Democrat introduces bill to close gym during shutdown, singles
out Paul Ryan
Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., introduced the
Shutdown Prioritization Act (SPA) following the partial government shutdown
Friday at midnight which resulted from President Trump and Congress' inability
to reach a deal on funding for a border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Nearly
half a million federal workers who are considered “essential” are expected to
work without pay, while nearly 400,000 government employees are being furloughed
without pay.
He then blasted Republican leadership for supposedly deeming “the Congressional
spa used by Members of the House of Representatives to be ‘essential.’”
Foster in particular singled out House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has gained
a reputation for his rigorous workout routine.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democratic-rep-introduces-bill-to-close-congressional-spa-during-shutdown-singles-out-paul-ryan
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