antipoverty system and offering bold ideas to empower americans to overcome the he spoke passionately aboutcerty while on the republican ticket in 2012. two years later he unveiled an innovative plan at the american enterprise institute to turn federal anti-poverty spending over to the states. and earlier this year, he did it again. releasing a proposal from a house task force to, to a symbol on poverty and opportunity and upward mobility. speaker ryan understands that our anti-poverty programs often do more to trap people in poverty than to lift them out of it. the, these are complex problems, that require thoughtful solutions. that means there is no easy route, there is no shortcut. while many in washington run from these problems, speaker ryan has run towards them. you can always count on him to be the guy who will think deeply and pay more attention to the difficult details. his anti-poverty proposals have broken new ground. and helped reinvigorate the bipartisan conversation about economic mobility. now, speaker ryan is in a historic position, to turn ideas into reality, and i know of us