GOP wants air time for Obama response

House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) wrote television networks on Friday to request air time for a GOP response to President Barack Obama's address to Congress next Wednesday, ABC News reported Friday morning.

According to the letter:

"The opposing party has typically been granted this opportunity not only in the case of the annual Presidential State of the Union Adress to Congress, but at other times when the President has come before Congress as well. For example in 1993 when President Bill Clinton spoke to Congress on health care, the networks carried a Republican repsonse from then-Governor Caroll Campbell of South Carolina."

ABC speculates the GOP would likely tap its two doctors -- Rep. Tom Price (Ga.) and Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) -- to deliver the brief response.