Ryan Returns to Center of Budget Negotiations
Posted at 10:15 a.m. on Nov. 19, 2012
The New York Times reports that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), fresh off the presidential campaign trail, has been asked by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to assist in efforts to avoid the “fiscal cliff.”
“The test will be whether Mr. Ryan…can make the transition from House budget philosopher to governing heavyweight who can help negotiate a bipartisan deal and sell it to his colleagues… With his new muscle and increased respect from his colleagues, Mr. Ryan could conceivably scuttle any deal if he loudly opposes a solution that the speaker and the top Republican leaders embrace… Mr. Ryan has returned to the Hill voicing support for Mr. Boehner, a departure from last year, when he was wary of bipartisan deficit solutions, including the one Mr. Boehner tried to negotiate with the president.”
