Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan Downplays Divisions Over Health Plan

... Obamacare, rather than getting bogged down in the replacement. “This is what we won elections over in 2010, 2014 and 2016,” Mr. Paul said. House leaders said the party would come around as they fine-tuned the plan in the coming weeks and received feedback from the Congressional Budget Office on how their plans would affect coverage, federal spending and deficits. “When we get everything done and right we’re going to be unified on this,” Mr. Ryan said. His plan would replace Obamacare’s exchanges and income-based subsidies with tax credits based on age, while unwinding generous federal funding for states that expanded their Medicaid populations under President Obama. It also bolsters tax-advantaged health savings accounts and would unwind Obamacare’s strict coverage requirement, so people could find cheaper plans that cover what they want. The GOP wants to pay for its plan by taxing a portion of particular generous employer-sponsored health plans. That will likely rankle ...

Hundreds Gather To Back Planned Parenthood, Slam Paul Ryan

... 20, a nursing student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Planned Parenthood made her feel comfortable while choosing the birth control that was right for her. Check out this story on __link__: __link__/story/news/local/wisconsin/2017/02/25/hundreds-gather-back-planned-parenthood-slam-paul-ryan/98415750/. Cancel Send. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Activate your digital access. Hundreds gather to back Planned Parenthood, slam Paul Ryan. Maggie Angst , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 6:42 p.m. CT Feb. 25, 2017 | Updated 7:54 p.m. CT Feb. 25, 2017. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Buy Photo. Cecile Richards (far left), President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Sen. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.); and state Sen. La Tonya Johnson (right) attended the rally Saturday in the ballroom at the Hilton City Center. Gary Porter / for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Buy Photo. Hundreds of people jam the ballroom at the Hilton City Center to attend a rally to stand with Planned Parenthood. Gary Porter / for the Milwaukee Journal ...

Hundreds Of Speaker Paul Ryan's Constituents Held A Town Hall Meeting Without Him

... the United States have complained loudly to their elected representatives at meetings and listening sessions since the November elections. U. S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) has held several town-hall meetings this year where hundreds of people have shown up. U. S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) last week did not attend town hall meetings in Green Bay and Madison, telling organizers in advance that he was not coming. He held an electronic town hall, answering questions from constituents by phone. Lori Hawkins of Bristol said she worries about efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and said she believes women’s health will suffer if the Affordable Care Act is repealed. Hawkins said it was a health screening through Planned Parenthood that helped detect her ovarian cancer, and “without them I wouldn’t have become a mother.”. Ryan “makes it sound like (Planned Parenthood) funding ...

How Paul Ryan Is Getting Trump's Team Ready For Battles In Congress

... told me. "There's a lot to do this year in a very tight calendar.". It's a decidedly different path than the one pursued by Trump's predecessor, whose team wouldn't hesitate to send their own draft legislative language to Capitol Hill on a regular basis. The language was accompanied by detailed instructions on what would - and most importantly would not - be acceptable to then-President Barack Obama. President George W. Bush, the last Republican in the White House, also tended to send fully fleshed out policy positions to the GOP-led House, with an understanding that the real negotiations would then occur in the Senate. But both sides agree that this Congress-centric approach makes the most sense in the Trump era, according to sources on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. GOP lawmakers and their staff, from the senior leadership through the various committee ...

Donald Trump And Paul Ryan’s Phony War

... Republicans but most human adults, and renders any position of his confusing and protean. Yet Trump is attracting a great deal of attention and criticism for a third dimension of allegedly idiosyncratic behavior that is in fact perfectly orthodox: his economic-policy agenda. That Trump is mostly proposing classic Republican fiscal policy is not the sense you may have gotten from coverage of his forthcoming budget and quasi–State of the Union address. Trump, reports the New York Times , has set up “a battle for control of Republican Party ideology with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, who for years has staked his policy-making reputation on the argument that taming the budget deficit without tax increases would require that Congress change, and cut, the programs that swallow the bulk of the government’s spending — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.” Traditional conservative sources ...

Conservatives Rebel On Health Care, And Gop Looks To Trump

... say is that the plan that gets presented to the conference is the one you need to vote 'yes' on," said GOP Rep. Bill Flores of Texas. "That's how he can be helpful.". House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin sought to put a positive face on the divisions. "You're going to have a lot of churning on any kind of legislative product like this," Ryan said. "This is a plan that we are all working on together, the House, the Senate and the White House, so there aren't rival plans.". "I feel at the end of the day when we get everything done and right, we're going to be unified," Ryan said. For now, most evidence is to the contrary. After a recess week filled with raucous town hall meetings, lawmakers' return to the Capitol this week immediately put deep divisions on display. The two leading conservative groups in the House both announced their opposition to House leadership health care plans based on a leaked draft and reports that the bill would cost more than expected while covering fewer people than the Affordable Care Act. And three key conservative senators, Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky ...

Oh Deer, Speaker Paul Ryan's Loaf

... Publishing, 2017). Check out this story on __link__: __link__/story/life/food/recipes/2017/02/28/oh-deer-speaker-paul-ryans-loaf/98204520/. Cancel Send. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Join the Conversation. Oh Deer, Speaker Paul Ryan's Loaf. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 11:16 a.m. CT Feb. 28, 2017. Buy Photo. Venison and ground beef combine in House Speaker Paul Ryan's meatloaf. (Photo: Nancy Stohs / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)Buy Photo. CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. When Paul Ryan heard about a meatloaf cookbook by two New York Times reporters, he shared his recipe for a venison meatloaf for “A Meatloaf in Every Oven” (Grand Central Publishing, 2017). Ryan, who grinds his own meat, is a deer hunter. Don't skimp on the ketchup, which co-author Jennifer Steinhauer notes gives the loaf a good zing. Recipe tested by Nancy Stohs. Makes 6 servings. 1 medium-size onion, finely chopped. 1 pound ground venison. ½ pound fatty ground beef, preferably not more than 70% lean. 1 envelope (1 ounce) onion soup mix (Ryan uses Lipton). 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce. ½ cup ...

The Best Tweets About Paul Ryan’s Pouty Face At Sotu

... About Paul Ryan’s Pouty Face at SOTU. by Lindsey Ellefson | 9:21 pm, February 28 th, 2017. Last night, President Barack Obama gave his final State of the Union address. It was at times moving, funny, and always as charismatic as we have come to expect from our Commander in Chief over the last seven years, for better or for worse. Whether it was funny or sad, however, could not be determined by glancing over Obama’s left shoulder at Speaker Paul Ryan. He sat impassively without clapping almost the entire time and people noticed. Oh, people noticed. Comments and quips came in from all the usual suspects , but as people do in 2016, comedians, celebrities, and cable subscribers across the country took to Twitter to mock the representative and call out his seeming lack of patriotism. Some people were worried. paul ryan, are you being held against your will? blink twice if you’re okay. stare straight forward and do nothing if you need rescuing. — Lindsay Gibbs (@linzsports) January 13, 2016. Some people got creative. — Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) January 13, 2016. Some people couldn’t hide that they had their minds on other, more important things. Obama could reveal ...