House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., announced Wednesday that he plans to leave Congress at the end of his term in January. "It’s a big job with a lot riding on you and you feel it. You realize you ...

— -- Rep. Paul Ryan spent days hearing out his Republican colleagues who pleaded with him to consider stepping into House Speaker John Boehner’s shoes. On Tuesday night he said he would ...

Paul Ryan called the Democratic lawmakers’ sit-in Wednesday to protest inaction on gun laws a “publicity stunt,” saying that House liberals were more interested in headlines than solving the ...

"The House is broken," Paul Ryan acknowledged in his speech accepting the speakership of the U.S. House on Thursday morning. "We are not solving problems. We are adding to them." He's right. Ryan ...

House Speaker Paul Ryan will not seek re-election in November. As his time in Congress comes to a close, here's a look back at the 48-year-old's political career.

Rep. Paul Ryan has represented the 1st congressional district for Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1999. That means he's been in the Congress long enough to have a track record.

Reporting from Washington — The day after Paul Ryan became the new speaker of the House, he quickly and quietly wiped out the most obvious traces of his Republican predecessors.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan just announced that he won't run for re-election, after serving in the House for nearly 20 years and as Speaker for nearly three.. Ryan cited family as his reason to ...

When Speaker Paul D. Ryan took over the gavel from John A. Boehner this fall, he promised to "make some changes" to fix a broken House of Representatives. Broadly speaking, proposed changes from ...

Paul Ryan’s decision not to run again gives Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats a slightly better shot of taking back the House in 2018’s midterm elections. Win McNamee / Getty Images ...

Paul Ryan was fresh off one of the most humbling defeats of his career. It was days after the collapse of his party's seven-year quest to repeal Obamacare, and Ryan, the speaker of the House, was ...