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There is no set person. The Constitution requires that the President shall inform the Congress of the "state of the Union". It doesn't have to be a speech, and it doesn't have to be every year. The habit of the formal "state of the union" speech has come from television!

About 20 years ago, the opposition party in Congress noted that the President always got prime time for the SOTU speech, and demanded "equal time". This was seen as fair since the President's speech was more political than functional. Since then, a member of the opposition party has been traditionally given some time to make its point in response to the SOTU speech.

Too frequently, the President has used the SOTU as just another campaign speech rather than really reporting to Congress on the current state of the country.

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