http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/258773-ryan-dismisses-calls-for-family-leave-law
New Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Sunday dismissed Democrats’ calls for a paid family leave law as another “federal entitlement,” and said his position isn’t at odds with recent remarks that he wants to spend weekends with his young family in Wisconsin.
“I don’t think people asked me to be Speaker so I can take more money from hard-working taxpayers, so I can create some new federal entitlement,” Ryan said during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” “But I think the public wants to have members of Congress that represent them, that are like them.
“Don’t you want your member of Congress to be a citizen legislator who lives with you, among you, who has your own kinds of concerns, who wants to spend time with his children on Saturdays and Sundays?”
Ryan has said he wouldn’t be like other modern Speakers who criss-cross the country on weekends to raise cash for the party; instead, he said he’ll return home each weekend to his native Janesville, Wis., where his wife and three children live.
But Democrats pounced on him, saying he’s a hypocrite for wanting time with his own family while denying mandatory paid time off for other hard-working Americans.
“Yes, Sundays are going to be family days, and Saturdays are family and constituent days,” Ryan said. “That is what I think most people want in their life is a balance.”
Ryan faced more questions about family leave on other Sunday shows, including NBC's "Meet the Press," where he noted that fathers from his Generation X are perhaps more involved with their families than past generations.
who is that mysterious person who keeps handing out shovels to republicans whoever they are they are surely the peoples hero. people did not ask him to be speaker his party did he continues his habitual lying and hasn't sat down yet, and the people want reps that are like them the only ones that are like them are their base and they were brainwashed and like them only in social intolerance.
G W Bush, "you can fool some of the people all the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on". he has told them he will not do traditional speaker job because it puts a cramp in his family time or is he just lazy and since they all but shoved it down his throat he's laid out rules how long will that stand in the multi faceted party of no??????????
republicans know allowing his demands is tantamount to blackmail and sets a dangerous precedent that can create even more dissension within an already splintered party. guess it hasn't kicked in yet takes them awhile to realize what they just did because their intent is always to do harm for gain keeping their eyes on that prize blinds them to the peripheral occurrences.
