Paul Ryan

===Constituent services===
In fiscal year 2008, Ryan garnered $5.4 million in congressional [[Earmark (politics)|earmarks]], including $3.28 million for [[Transit bus|bus service]] in Wisconsin, $1.38 million for the [[Ice Age Trail]], and $735,000 for the Janesville transit system.<ref name="Bender"/> In 2009, he successfully advocated with the [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] for [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009|stimulus funds]] for energy initiatives in his district.<ref name=Bender/>

Other home district projects he has supported include a runway extension at the [[Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport]], an environmental study of the [[Kenosha, Wisconsin|Kenosha]] Harbor, firefighting equipment for Janesville, road projects in Wisconsin, and commuter rail and streetcar projects in Kenosha. In 2008, Ryan pledged to stop seeking earmarks. Prior to that he had sought earmarks less often than other representatives.<ref name=Markon/> [[Taxpayers for Common Sense]] records show no earmarks supported by Ryan for fiscal years 2009 and 2010.<ref name=Bender/> In 2012, Ryan supported a request for $3.8 million from the [[United States Department of Transportation|Department of Transportation]] for a new transit center in Janesville,<ref name=Markon/> which city officials received in July.<ref name="Auto2A-45"/>

Ryan was an active member of a task force established by Wisconsin governor [[Jim Doyle]] that tried unsuccessfully to persuade [[General Motors]] to keep its assembly plant in Janesville open. He made personal contact with GM executives to try to convince them to save or retool the plant, offering GM hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded incentives.<ref name=Deluca/> Following the closure of factories in Janesville and Kenosha, constituents expressed dissatisfaction with Ryan's voting history.<ref name="Abercrombie"/> During the 2011 Congressional summer break, Ryan held [[town hall meeting]]s by telephone with constituents. The only public meetings Ryan attended in his district required an admission fee of at least $15.<ref name="Fischer"/><ref name="Epstein"/>{{undue weight inline|date=June 2019}}

In August 2011, constituents in Kenosha and [[Racine, Wisconsin|Racine]] protested when Ryan would not meet with them about economic and employment issues, after weeks of emailed requests from them. His Kenosha office locked its doors and filed a complaint with the police, who told the protesters that they were not allowed in Ryan's office.<ref name=Abercrombie/><ref name=Fischer/><ref name=Stein/>

Ryan maintained a mobile office to serve constituents in outlying areas.<ref name="Auto2A-46"/>