Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin confronts President Obama’s budget with an alternative GOP budget plan that he is pushing in the House. Ryan, the top Republican on the House Budget Committee, said in his party’s radio address April 4, 2009, that the U.S. is in an economic crisis and the president’s plan “will make the crisis much, much worse. Rather than getting spending under control, it sends spending out of control.” (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)