1. Paul Ryan married Janna Christine Little, a tax attorney, in December 2000.
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2. In 2009, Paul Ryan said, "What's unique about what's happening today in government, in the world, in America, is that it's as if we're living in an Ayn Rand novel right now.
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8. In 2012, The New York Times said Paul Ryan was "his party's most forceful spokesman for cutting entitlement spending.
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9. Paul Ryan supported the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit and opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as "Obamacare.
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10. Paul Ryan supports block granting Medicaid to the states and the privatization of social security and Medicare.
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12. In 2012, Paul Ryan voted against the Simpson-Bowles commission proposal to reduce the deficit, because the proposal raised taxes and failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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13. On October 11, 2012, Paul Ryan debated his Democratic counterpart, incumbent Vice President Joe Biden, in the only vice presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle.
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14. Paul Ryan formally accepted his nomination at the 2012 Republican National Convention on August 29, 2012.
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15. Paul Ryan is the first individual from Wisconsin as well as the first member of Generation X to run on a major party's national ticket.
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19. Paul Ryan was an active member of a task force established by Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle that tried unsuccessfully to persuade General Motors to keep its assembly plant in Janesville open.
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22. Paul Ryan supported Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, and did not support legislation to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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23. Paul Ryan provided political cover for Devin Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, who many characterized as a source of the dysfunction in the committee as it investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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24. Paul Ryan urged Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Congressional oversight committees to "do their jobs so that we can get to the bottom of all of this.
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30. In 2012, under Wisconsin election law, Paul Ryan was allowed to run concurrently for vice president and for Congress and was not allowed to remove his name from the Congressional ballot after being nominated for the vice presidency.
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33. Paul Ryan was a member of the College Republicans, and volunteered for the congressional campaign of John Boehner.
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34. Paul Ryan has a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he became interested in the writings of Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman.
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35. Paul Ryan participated in several academic and social clubs including the Model United Nations.
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36. Paul Ryan was the 2012 vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party, running alongside Mitt Romney.
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