Ideologies / Fiscal Conservative / Paul Ryan
§ The minds · b. 1970 · United States · Speaker of the House
Paul Ryan
The budget hawk
Entitlement reform and the spreadsheet.
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Governance+6
LibertarianAuthoritarian
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The earnest budget-committee chairman and Speaker whose deficit-and-entitlement crusade made him the face of 21st-century American fiscal conservatism.
social
Conservative Catholic of the policy-wonk right.
economic
Tax reform, spending restraint and entitlement overhaul.
governance
Institutionalist legislator working through regular order.
Notable for
- Authored 'The Path to Prosperity'
- Speaker of the House
- 2012 VP nominee
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