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  • Getting America out of deep debt
    Dec 12, 2011  - By Tom Price and Paul Ryan For three straight years, the U.S. government has run trillion-dollar deficits. In total, the nation has recently surpassed $15 trillion in debt — a number that continues to rise. For nearly 1,000 days, the Democrat-led Senate has refused to write a budget while Washington... More
  • Ryan answers questions on the proposed payroll tax extension, the Senate’s failure to budget, and fixing Washington’s broken budget process
    Dec 12, 2011  - Last week, Congressman Paul Ryan spoke with 1st District residents during a telephone town hall meeting. Excerpts of Rep. Ryan’s responses follow: Passing a Budget on Time & Fixing the Broken Budget Process: The Path to Prosperity, which I helped write, did pass the House. Now, that generally should... More
  • Reps. Ryan and Ribble on Fixing the Broken Budget Process
    Dec 8, 2011  - Podcast Highlights Rep. Ryan on the Constitutionality of H.R. 3521: “We wrote this bill with the lawyer who argued against the line-item veto before the Supreme Court in 1996. I actually agree with that Supreme Court ruling, which says Congress should not delegate its lawmaking power to the Executi... More
  • Bringing accountability back to Washington
    Dec 7, 2011  - Guest Opinion - By Congressmen Reid Ribble and Paul Ryan Congressmen Reid Ribble and Paul Ryan The way Washington operates is broken. This is not a new problem, but one that has become more pronounced as Washington stumbles from budget crisis to budget crisis, with little oversight of how the govern... More
  • Repairing the Broken Budget Process
    Dec 7, 2011  - WASHINGTON – This morning, Members of the House Budget Committee introduced a comprehensive package of ten legislative reforms designed to help repair the broken budget process. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued the following statement upon release of these reforms: “The federal budge... More
  • ABC News: Budget Guru Paul Ryan Works to Repair ‘Broken Budget Process’
    Dec 7, 2011  - By John Parkinson, ABC News With 952 days elapsed since the Senate last passed a budget, House Budget chairman Paul Ryan joined fiscal conservatives today to reveal a wide-ranging approach to fixing Washington’s broken budget process through a slate of reforms that aim at strengthening spending cont... More
  • Give president more veto power
    Dec 6, 2011  - A Wisconsin State Journal editorial SCOTT ANDERSON | Racine Journal Times The effort by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, to give presidents limited yet additional veto power deserves support. It won’t fix America’s finances on its own. But it will reduce waste and improve Washington’s woeful reput... More
  • Strong tool to limit spending
    Dec 5, 2011  - A Beloit Daily News editorial FOR MANY YEARS — at least since then-Gov. Tommy Thompson taught the world how to creatively use a line-item veto club — we have supported similar authority for the nation’s chief executive. The occupant of the White House has veto power, of course. But that veto can be ... More
  • Line-item veto would help slash wasteful spending
    Dec 1, 2011  - By REP. PAUL RYAN In Wisconsin, congressional leaders have a long tradition of putting partisanship aside to solve problems. In recent years, I’ve upheld this tradition by teaming with Janesville native and former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold to advance legislation providing the president with a li... More
  • Ryan Targets Wasteful Spending
    Dec 1, 2011  - Andrew Beckett, WRN: Legislation from Congressman Paul Ryan would give the president line item veto authority over appropriations bills Congressman Ryan: This gives the President the ability to take a specific spending item or piece of pork out of the bill, send it back to Congress, and then Congre... More