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News Summary: Ryan gets heat over Social Security

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LINES ARE DRAWN: Democrats are eagerly renewing their fight against privatizing Social Security now that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has picked Paul Ryan as his running mate.

THE RYAN PLAN: The Wisconsin congressman proposed in 2010 a plan to allow younger workers to divert more than one-third of their Social Security taxes into personal accounts that they would own and could will to their heirs.

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