Paul Ryan, the former speaker of the House, is planning on moving his family from Wisconsin to Washington, D.C.
“Now in the private sector, Paul and his family are temporarily renting a house in Maryland, and he’ll be spending time there as well as their family home in Janesville,” an aide to Ryan, 49, told Politico.
The 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee has said he will not be selling his house in his home state but his decision to return to Washington — a city he always said he inhabited only on sufferance and out of duty to his constituents — inevitably raises the possibility of a political comeback, or a lucrative lobbying, corporate or consulting role.
Ryan’s unexpected move comes after the former congressman finished a career in Washington in which he avoided permanent residence in the city. Ryan even continued to sleep in his office while he was speaker of the House.
“I live in Janesville, Wisconsin,” Ryan said in 2015. “I commute back and forth every week. I just work here. I don’t live here. I get up very early in the morning. I work out. I work until about 11:30 at night. I go to bed, and I do the same thing the next day.”
Ryan’s wife, Janna, 50, is a former tax lawyer and corporate lobbyist. The couple met at her 30th birthday. Their children — Elizabeth “Liza,” 17, Charles, 16, and Samuel, 14 — have attended a private Catholic school connected to the parish church where Ryan was an altar boy.
Since leaving the House in January, Ryan has focused on his nonprofit the American Idea Foundations and was given a position on the board of directors of Fox Corporation.
