1. He's wanted to reform entitlements since his time as a Senate staffer in 1995.
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2. He was first elected to Congress in 1998. His father died when he was 16 and his family has lived in Wisconsin since the 1800s.
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3. He said he's "not a fan" of his running mate's health care plan in 2010.
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4. He released a budget in 2011 commonly known as "the Ryan Budget" or "Path to Prosperity" to fix America's debt problems.
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5. He once was a salesperson for Oscar Mayer and drove the Weinermobile while in college.
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6. He supported the Iraq War and the troop surge in 2007.
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7. He gave a speech in support of the Bush tax cuts at the 2004 RNC.
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8. He often defends his budget plan from Democrats' charges it "ends Medicare as we know it."
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9. Democrats attacked him for his plan with a notorious ad featuring an older woman being pushed off a cliff.
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10. He voted for the bank bailout known as TARP in 2008, but had serious issues with it.
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Andrew Kaczynski is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
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