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<\/center><\/p>\nBack in 2001, I wondered about the same thing. Why is the first address to a joint session of Congress in a new President’s term not<\/i> called a “State of the Union” address? And isn’t a State of the Union message required by the Constitution every year?<\/p>\n
I’m on the road this week (and next), so I’m short on time to find out the answers to those questions. If anyone has the answers, or any other thoughts on tonight’s address to a joint session of Congress by President<\/i> Barack Hussein Obama, please feel free to share them in comments…<\/p>\n
Update:<\/b> Thanks to commenter “Jon in Iowa”<\/a>, for the link to CNN’s explanation<\/a> of the above questions.<\/p>\n Update 7:32pm PT:<\/strong> Minority Off!<\/em><\/p>\n Back in 2001, I wondered about the same thing. Why is the first address to a joint session of Congress in a new President’s term not called a “State of the Union” address? And isn’t a State of the Union message required by the Constitution every year? I’m on the road this week (and next), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,204],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-sotu","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BobbyJindal_SOTU_RepublicanResponse_022409.jpg\")
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