in 25 years. Pledge to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. Pledge to have 80 percent of the country's electricity come from clean-energy sources by 2035. New investment in biomedical research, information technology and clean-energy technology. A continuation of the $4.35 billion Race to the Top incentive program offering competitive federal grants to local school systems. Bruce Randolph School was mentioned as a success. A call to "redouble" efforts to repair America's aging roads and bridges. A call to make a $10,000 tuition tax credit permanent. Other topics and goals A challenge to pursue innovation in "our generations' Sputnik moment." Replace No Child Left Behind with another form of education reform. A good amount of time was directed towards education during the address. The President announced that he will be taking a trip to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador in the spring, to sign trade deals, which will help create tens of thousands of new jobs. Remain committed to the War in Afghanistan, the War on Terror, and on pressuring regimes like Iran, which is pursuing nuclear weapons, and North Korea, which has nuclear weapons. Continue alliance with the United Kingdom, Israel, and Japan. Response Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Chair of the House Budget Committee, gave the Republican response afterward. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, gave a Spanish version of the response. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota gave an address in response to Obama's speech on behalf of the Tea Party Express. Some Republicans opposed Bachmann's decision, worrying she would draw attention away from Ryan. Bachmann was refused access to the Capitol Hill Club to make her speech, forcing her to give the speech from the National Press Club. Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio gave a mixed review of Obama's speech, saying, "While I was encouraged by the President's support for an earmark ban and will work with him towards that goal, his call for a mere budget freeze does not go far enough in tackling our record debt. At the very least, we should freeze non-defense and non-veterans discretionary spending to what it was before Washington began its unprecedented, record-setting spending binge two years ago. But most importantly, we need to finally begin fundamentally reforming the way our government spends the American people's money." Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, also of Florida, praised Obama for "bringing us out