Paul Ryan: podcast appearances and interviews

Paul Davis Ryan, born on January 29, 1970, in Janesville, Wisconsin, is a former American politician who served as the 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. He represented Wisconsin's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House from 1999 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Ryan was the party's vice presidential nominee in the 2012 presidential election, running alongside Mitt Romney. He graduated from Miami University in 1992 and initially worked in Washington, D.C., as a speechwriter and legislative director before returning to Wisconsin to work at his family's construction company. Elected to Congress in 1998, he succeeded Mark Neumann and held his seat for two decades. During his tenure, Ryan chaired the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015 and briefly chaired the House Ways and Means Committee in 2015. He identified as a deficit hawk and advocated for Social Security privatization in the mid-2000s. His proposals during the 2010s, notably