House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday asked television networks to air the Republican response to President Barack Obama's health care address to a joint session of Congress, scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday.
"The opposing party has typically been granted this opportunity not only in the case of the annual Presidential State of the Union Address to Congress, but at other times when the President has come before Congress as well," Boehner wrote. "For example, in 1993 when President Bill Clinton spoke to Congress on health care, the networks carried a Republican response from then-Governor Carroll Campbell of South Carolina."
NBC, ABC, and CBS confirmed to POLITICO that they will carry Obama’s address and cover the GOP response. - Politico Story
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