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The phone rang at about 7 p.m. at my house last night. On the phone was Paul Ryan, and it wasn't a robo call. Here are a few quotes from the "town hall meeting."

Congressman, Paul Ryan (R-Janesville), held a town hall meeting by telephone at about 7 p.m. Wednesday night.
And whether you agree or disagree with Ryan's comments, the fact that he held an engaging conversation with his constituents by telephone was an interesting twist.
Here are five things he said:
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On education: "If you get rid of the overregulation… which is stunting reform, and you give back the control locally – to me that’s more important."
Milk prices: "We need to go to a free market milk system."
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The new health care law: "I think it’s a fiscal house of cards."
On the economy: "We need 250,000 jobs a month for five year just to get back to get to the unemployment we had five years ago."
On the war: "Afghanistan is the new worry."
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