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Paul Ryan asks the White House: 'Why did you duck?' on debt

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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan told President Obama's budget director Tuesday that the president squandered a prime opportunity to deal with the country’s “crippling burden of debt” with his budget proposal for 2012.

Ryan (R-Wis.) said he would have rejected the budget plan released on Monday even if it had come from a Republican president.