JANESVILLE, Wis. — A defining moment for Paul Ryan’s hometown came at the height of the Great Recession: General Motors, after nearly a century of making Chevrolets on the banks of the Rock River, shut down its oldest assembly plant and erased 6,000 jobs. A defining question of the campaign Ryan joined this week as […]

The Republican vice presidential candidate denied for a second time Thursday that he ever lobbied the government for stimulus money, even though he sent letters —with his signature — to the feds asking for millions of the program’s dollars on behalf of two companies in Wisconsin.