Few heads of state get the privilege of addressing a joint session of Congress.
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She will be addressing a joint session of Congress, which is a very unique honor.
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President Obama delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.
But he also used the address before a joint session of Congress to employ another motivational device.
And are there certain high expectations that one creates when you do a joint session of Congress speech?
Obama will address the contentious issue in a speech to a joint session of Congress on September 9.
Can anyone remember the last time a U.S. president was called a liar in a joint session of Congress?
This is the text prepared for delivery by President Barack Obama before a joint session of Congress on Thursday night.
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Ms. Park will meet with Mr. Obama on Tuesday and deliver a speech at a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night is expected to be dominated by economic and budgetary issues.
In October, Ford addressed a joint session of Congress about the economy.
The President has had a speech to a joint session of Congress.
When I first proposed this idea in a joint session of Congress, people stood up and applauded on both sides of the aisle.
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In his speech on health care to a joint session of Congress, Obama finally broached the topic, if tentatively, through the words of Sen.
So when I talked about this part of the plan before the joint session of Congress, everybody rose up -- Democrats and Republicans alike.
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Even de Gaulle supported America during the Cuban missile crisis, and reminded a joint session of Congress of the two countries' history of shared values.
"A joint session of Congress has a different function, " Dallek said.
Mr. Obama is scheduled to deliver his address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday evening, promising to offer a broad plan to add more jobs.
For example, Obama's speech in front of the joint session of Congress a year ago conveyed his desire to get Congress to act on health care reform.
Indeed, Kennedy's speech was called a "Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs" and was delivered to a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961.
Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress and articulated the following vision: Land a man on the moon, before this decade is out, and return him safely to Earth.
When this effort failed, Johnson would, just two days later, introduce a bill during a joint session of Congress and deliver a speech often considered a turning point in the civil rights movement.
And when then-President Bill Clinton delivered his first speech to a joint session of Congress in 1993, he had only passed the Family and Medical Leave Act and was struggling politically because of the gays-in-the-military flap.
When newly sworn-in US President George W Bush addresses a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening to explain his budget, he will borrow a page from his predecessor Bill Clinton as well as push his own cost-cutting agenda.
But last month, when I addressed a joint session of Congress about our jobs crisis, I also said that I intend to do everything in my power to act on behalf of the American people -- with or without Congress.
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He can address a joint session of Congress, as Obama will on Tuesday night, and every paragraph, if not every sentence, will be dissected in real time by people serving as a global jury, rendering second-by-second judgments on social networking sites and cell phone text-message screens.
On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that while Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is in Washington next week, and before the premier has a chance to give his scheduled address to a joint session of Congress, Obama will give a new speech to the Arab world.
And there are a lot of factors that go into scheduling a speech before Congress, a joint session speech.
Nevertheless, the ruralistas will probably not attempt to overturn the president's veto in Congress (this would require an absolute majority of legislators in a joint session of both houses).
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Despite Mr Netanyahu's complex, sometimes frosty relationship with the Obama White House, he remains a darling of Congress, receiving a rapturous reception in May, when he addressed a joint session.
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