Today, the Washington Examiner held an editorial board meeting with House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. We asked if he was being vetted by the Romney campaign as a possible candidate for Vice-President.
“I’m not getting into that, I’m not changing any of my answers,” Ryan protested. “I get asked this every time I walk down the street, I’m not giving you any answers.”
When asked by the Examiner’s Michael Barone about how he keeps up on foreign policy, Ryan said he spends a lot of time reading on the military and foreign policy, mentioning the “Bernard Lewis books,” and traveling in the Middle East.
Ryan said that during his career in Congress, he worked on several Middle East trade agreements with moderate Muslim nations.
“I spent a lot of my time, over my career traveling the Middle East. That’s probably where most of my travels have gone, I was in Afghanistan last December, I’ve been there a few times,” he said.
