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Bernie Sanders stated on January 7, 2020 in newsletter from the Bernie Sanders campaign:

"In 2018, Biden lauded Paul Ryan for proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare."

By Amy Sherman • January 9, 2020

Paul Ryan stated on April 17, 2018 in a news conference:

Says that on the tax reform law, Democratic leaders "are promising to take it all away."

By Tom Kertscher • May 2, 2018

Giffords stated on March 13, 2018 in an ad:

"Paul Ryan has blocked all action to strengthen our gun laws."

By Tom Kertscher • April 6, 2018

Bernie Sanders stated on February 24, 2018 in a campaign appearance:

"The Koch brothers have given" Paul Ryan "$500,000 in campaign contributions."

By Tom Kertscher • March 9, 2018

Paul Ryan stated on February 15, 2018 in a briefing with reporters:

We "have laws on the books designed to prevent people with mental illnesses from getting firearms."

By Tom Kertscher • February 26, 2018

Paul Ryan stated on December 13, 2017 in an interview:

The 1986 tax reform approved under Ronald Reagan "was polling at about 18 percent right before they passed it."

By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2017

Paul Ryan stated on December 1, 2017 in an interview:

Under the House Republican tax plan, in Wisconsin, "the median household of four gets about a $2,000 tax cut, on average."

By Tom Kertscher • December 8, 2017

Paul Ryan stated on September 1, 2017 in an interview:

"We've got about $3 trillion in trapped cash overseas that basically can't come back in this country because of our tax laws."

By Tom Kertscher • September 15, 2017

X posts stated on September 11, 2017 in tweets:

"Paul Ryan doesn't know what the minimum wage is in Wisconsin."

By Tom Kertscher • September 11, 2017

Paul Ryan stated on August 21, 2017 in a town hall:

Says Aaron Rodgers "is not the highest tax rate payer" in Wisconsin, it's "the single mom getting 24 grand in benefits with two kids who…

By Tom Kertscher • September 1, 2017

Paul Ryan stated on August 21, 2017 in a CNN town hall broadcast:

"We’ve got dozens of counties around America that have zero insurers left."

By Jon Greenberg • August 24, 2017

Randy Bryce stated on July 9, 2017 in a TV interview:

Says Paul Ryan "has not had a public town hall within the district for over 600 days."

By Alan Hovorka • July 21, 2017

Bloggers stated on July 11, 2017 in a headline:

"There was someone else on that plane for the secret Bill Clinton/Loretta Lynch meeting."

By Joshua Gillin • July 18, 2017

Newslo.com stated on June 28, 2017 in an Internet post:

Says Paul Ryan said that 22 million Americans "choose to be poor, so it’s their own problem if they can’t afford to be healthy."

By Joshua Gillin • July 11, 2017

Paul Ryan stated on June 27, 2017 in an interview with Fox News:

Says the CBO said "it's not that people are getting pushed off a plan; it's that people will choose not to buy something they don't…

By Jon Greenberg • June 28, 2017

Paul Ryan stated on May 7, 2017 in an interview:

Before Obamacare, Wisconsin’s "high-risk pool" for health insurance "had eight or nine" plans to choose from, people "could go to any doctor or any hospital…

By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2017

Paul Ryan stated on May 2, 2017 in a news conference:

"We got to a point that our Air Force pilots were going to museums to find spare parts over the last eight years" under Barack…

By Tom Kertscher • May 11, 2017

Paul Ryan stated on May 4, 2017 in remarks in 2009 and actions in 2017:

On voting for a health care bill without an up-to-date Congressional Budget Office score

By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2017

Bloggers stated on March 14, 2017 in an article:

"President Trump just told Paul Ryan, ‘You’re fired.’"

By Tom Kertscher • April 2, 2017

Paul Ryan stated on March 13, 2017 in a news release:

A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office "confirms that the American Health Care Act will lower premiums."

By Tom Kertscher • March 14, 2017

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As Paul Ryan leaves Congress, a look at his record on the Truth-O-Meter

By D.L. Davis • December 19, 2018

Politics in the prayers of the House chaplain that Paul Ryan ousted, then reinstated? Here’s a look

By Tom Kertscher • May 4, 2018

High 5: Most-clicked fact checks include guns, Paul Ryan, governor’s race

By Tom Kertscher • May 1, 2018

After 8 years of fact-checking Paul Ryan, our top 15 claims

By Tom Kertscher • April 11, 2018

Paul Ryan — near retirement? — on the Truth-O-Meter

By Tom Kertscher • December 14, 2017

High Five: Most-clicked include fact checks on Foxconn, Paul Ryan and fatal police shooting

By Tom Kertscher • September 5, 2017

Paul Ryan holding a ‘public’ town hall on CNN?

By Tom Kertscher • August 21, 2017

Paul Ryan on the Truth-O-Meter

By Tom Kertscher • October 23, 2015

Paul Ryan on the Truth-O-Meter

By Tom Kertscher • October 23, 2015

In Context: Were Paul Ryan’s poverty comments a ‘thinly veiled racial attack’?

By Tom Kertscher • March 14, 2014

In Context: That testy Paul Ryan interview

By Tom Kertscher • October 9, 2012

Paul Ryan returning to Texas

By W. Gardner Selby • September 24, 2012

Checking Paul Ryan and more at the Republican National Convention

By Molly Moorhead • August 30, 2012

Fact-checking Paul Ryan, vice presidential candidate

By Tom Kertscher • August 11, 2012

Fact-checking Paul Ryan, vice presidential candidate

By Tom Kertscher • August 11, 2012

How Paul Ryan has fared on the Truth-O-Meter

By Tom Kertscher • August 11, 2012

The real thing on Paul Ryan, Texas and a Coca-Cola study

By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2012

Jd Vance and Tim Ryan combination photo 2022

Fact-checking J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan in Ohio Senate race

By Amy Sherman • November 4, 2022

Guest column: Giffords group was right about Ryan blocking gun bills

By David Jolly • April 27, 2018

Prolific fake news writer Paul Horner dead at 38

By Joshua Gillin • September 26, 2017

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