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New House Speaker Describes What He Inherited

Paul Ryan House Senate Congress Freedom Index
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“The House is broken. We are not solving problems; we are adding to them. Neither the members nor the people are satisfied with how things are going.”

Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) sounded a strong message when he was sworn in as the speaker of the House, but constitutionalists will likely be disappointed. His cumulative score in this magazine’s Freedom Index, which rates every member of Congress based on the U.S. Constitution, is an unimpressive 58 percent.

Taliban Leader Condones Stoning a Woman to Death

“If you’re married and you commit adultery, you have to be stoned. The only question was whether this was done according to Shariah law with witnesses or confessions as required.”

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