| The crosscurrents inside the Republican Party were on fresh display Tuesday evening with the unusual sight of two lawmakers delivering responses to the State of the Union address. Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Budget Committee, said the country faced "a crushing burden of debt." Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who founded the Tea Party Caucus last year, gave a response of her own in a message to the Tea Party Express. |
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