The Republican response to the State of the Union address, sometimes referred to simply as the Republican response, is a rebuttal speech, often brief, delivered by a representative (or representatives) of the Republican Party following a presidential State of the Union address when the president is a Democrat. When the president is a Republican, a similar rebuttal is referred to as the Democratic response.
Florida U.S. senator Marco Rubio delivered the the most recent Republican response, in both English and Spanish, on February 12, 2013.[1]
List of Republican responses
| Date | President | Response given by[2] |
|---|---|---|
| January 12, 1966 | Lyndon Johnson | U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois) and U.S. Representative Gerald Ford (Michigan) 1 |
| January 10, 1967 | Lyndon Johnson | U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois) and U.S. Representative Gerald Ford (Michigan) |
| January 17, 1968 | Lyndon Johnson | U.S. Senators Thomas Kuchel (California), Charles Percy (Illinois), Howard Baker (Tennessee), Hugh Scott (Pennsylvania), John Tower (Texas), Peter Dominick (Colorado), Robert P. Griffin (Michigan), and George Murphy (California); U.S. Representatives William Steiger (Wisconsin), Gerald Ford (Michigan), Richard Poff (Virginia), George Bush (Texas), Robert Mathias (California), Charlotte Reid (Illinois), Albert Quie (Minnesota), and Melvin Laird(Wisconsin) |
| January 19, 1978 | Jimmy Carter | U.S. Senator Howard Baker Jr. (Tennessee) and U.S. Representative John Rhodes (Arizona) |
| January 23, 1979 | Jimmy Carter | U.S. Senator Howard Baker Jr. (Tennessee) and U.S. Representative John Rhodes (Arizona) |
| January 23, 1980 | Jimmy Carter | U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (Alaska) and U.S. Representative John Rhodes (Arizona) |
| January 25, 1994 | Bill Clinton | U.S. Senator Robert Dole (Kansas) |
| January 24, 1995 | Bill Clinton | New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman |
| January 23, 1996 | Bill Clinton | U.S. Senator Robert Dole (Kansas) |
| February 4, 1997 | Bill Clinton | U.S. Representative J.C. Watts (Oklahoma) |
| January 27, 1998 | Bill Clinton | U.S. Senator Trent Lott (Mississippi) |
| January 19, 1999 | Bill Clinton | U.S. Representatives Jennifer Dunn (Washington) and Steven Largent (Oklahoma) |
| January 27, 2000 | Bill Clinton | U.S. Senators Susan Collins (Maine) and William Frist (Tennessee) |
| January 27, 2010 | Barack Obama | Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell |
| January 25, 2011 | Barack Obama | Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan |
| January 24, 2012 | Barack Obama | Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels |
| February 12, 2013 | Barack Obama | Florida Senator Marco Rubio |
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_response_to_the_State_of_the_Union_address
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