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When General Motors announced in 2008 that it would shut down its assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, local Representative Paul Ryan leaped into action.

As a congressman in a comfortably safe Wisconsin district, Rep. Paul Ryan voted for some expensive initiatives while building a reputation as a serious conservative. But now that he is Mitt Romney's running mate, some of his ideological inconsistencies are now coming under the microscope.

Paul Ryan has been one of the harshest critics of President Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package. But that hasn't stopped the Wisconsin congressman from trying to help companies in his home state tap into the funds....

Despite the limping economy, Republican Congressional leadership urged the Federal Reserve chairman not to engage in further stimulus.

An array of Republican governors said they would reject at least some of the funding available under the Obama administration's economic-stimulus package.

Top Republican lawmakers today called on President Obama to change his political strategy, arguing that the passage of a massive stimulus bill on a party-line vote showed he has failed to deliver the "change" he promised. Sen. John McCain told CNN's "State of the Union With John King" that the president was off to "a bad beginning." Sen. Lindsay Graham was blunter: "If this is going to be bipartisanship, the country's screwed."

In a rare move, the president was meeting with the Republican conference in an effort to draw support for his $825 billion economic stimulus plan.