Paul Ryan to Give State Of Union Response

We are very excited to learn that Paul Ryan will give the Republican rebuttal to Obama's State Of The Union Address.  Paul Ryan is extremely articulate and poised in front of the cameras.  The main problem facing our nation is the economy and the lack of jobs and unemployment.  Ryan is extremely qualified to speak for the GOP on a subject that has become  one of his fields of interest and expertise.

Ryan to Give State of Union Response

By Patrick O'Connor -- The Wall Street Journal

Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, who will spearhead GOP efforts to slash federal spending, will deliver the Republicans’ response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union next week.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Hours ahead of the president’s speech, House Republicans are scheduled to vote on a largely symbolic measure to grant Mr. Ryan, the new chairman of the Budget Committee, authority to set spending levels for the rest of the current fiscal year.

Mr. Ryan is a favorite among conservative activists. Even the president has singled him out as a Republican with serious ideas about trimming the deficit – albeit ideas with which Mr. Obama largely disagrees.

A year ago, Mr. Ryan wrote a sweeping proposal to balance the federal budget. His plan, entitled “A Roadmap for America’s Future,” would gradually shift Social Security into a program of individual investment accounts and drastically re-work both Medicare and Medicaid through a system of vouchers and regional high-risk pools that reduce the costs of covering the most expensive people to insure.

Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.,Ky.) announced their choice of Mr. Ryan Friday morning. After Mr. Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday, the Wisconsin Republican will deliver his response from the Budget Committee’s hearing room.

In the release announcing his selection, the two Republican leaders highlighted the Democrats’ failure to pass a formal budget resolution last year – the first such lapse since the modern budget process was crafted in the mid-1970s.

“Paul Ryan is uniquely qualified to address the state of our economy and the fiscal challenges that face our country,” Mr. Boehner said in the release. “We’re broke, and decisive action is needed to help our economy get back to creating jobs and end the spending binge in Washington that threatens our children’s future. I’m pleased that Paul will be outlining a common-sense vision for moving our country forward.”





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