• President Obama’s Economic Policies Have Made Matters Worse June 12, 2011 - "President Obama inherited a difficult situation - no two ways about it – but what he’s done since then is to make matters worse, not better. The economic policies that the President has pushed through Congress into law have made this recovery harder to sustain itself – his policies are why we have... More

• What Paul Ryan's Critics Don't Know About Health Economics June 3, 2011 - It's clear that Medicare-spending growth must be curtailed and eventually limited to the growth rate of GDP—if not below. The big question now is how to do it. Unfortunately, the debate on Capitol Hill and in the media is too often fueled by partisan fear mongering instead of a thoughtful examinatio... More

• Paul Ryan on Meet the Press: Leadership Needed to Save Medicare, Lift Debt Burden, Grow Economy May 22, 2011 - Earlier this morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan called on policymakers to demonstrate honest leadership in addressing our nation’s greatest economic and fiscal challenges. Appearing on the program from his home state of Wisconsin, Ryan pushed back against thos... More

• Paul Ryan’s Medicare Fix How to improve health care and shore up the federal budget with one entitlement reform. April 20, 2011 - Of all the sweeping reforms in Rep. Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget, none is more politically charged than the proposal to transform Medicare from what it is today — an entitlement with no spending bounds — into a “defined contribution” program with a fixed and predictable budget. “Radical.” “Extreme.” “Cru... More

• Paul Ryan vs. the Mythmakers April 20, 2011 - If you’ve been following the debate over the House Republican budget proposed by Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, you have probably heard that it savagely cuts programs for the poor in order to fund tax cuts for the rich, that its numbers don’t add up, and that in the short run it expands the defici... More

• Paul Ryan Sets the Record Straight April 20, 2011 - Two months ago, the President introduced an unserious budget that locks in Washington's spending spree, adds $13 trillion to the debt over the next decade, and accelerates our nation toward a fiscal crisis. His budget imposes $1.5 trillion in tax increases on job creators and American families, stif... More

• The Other Medicare Cutters April 20, 2011 - The debate over Paul Ryan's Medicare reform ideas has largely been healthy, even amid the liberal distortions. But why has there been so little scrutiny of President Obama's new Medicare proposal? Anyone worrying about more individual choice and responsibility in health care might be interested to l... More

• Paul Ryan and His Critics April 12, 2011 - One point of a document as subversive as Paul Ryan's 2012 budget is to provoke debate, and has it ever. But amid the thoughtful musings about starving orphans and grandma in a snowbank, could his critics at least get their facts right? Let's unpack the distortions. -Deficits and debt. Perhaps the mo... More

• The Radical Gradualism of Paul Ryan April 11, 2011 - Late last month, Senator Charles Schumer of New York led a conference call in which Senate Democrats briefed reporters about the ongoing budget battle. At the outset, unaware that his comments were already audible to reporters on the line, Schumer provided some marching orders, advising his colleagu... More

• Ryan: "Time to put an end to the empty promises & advance a plan to prosperity.” April 9, 2011 - In this week's address, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) highlights the Path to Prosperity, the Republican budget that would spur private-sector job growth, stop Washington from spending money it doesn't have, and lift the crushing burden of debt that threatens our future. Ryan also ... More

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