President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union address will take place Tuesday evening.
Obama will give his speech in front of a joint session of Congress.
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live blog Oldest Newest Share + Today 1:47 PM ESTBoehner Invites Anti-Castro Cubans To SOTU Roll Call reports:
Speaker John A. Boehner’s list of invitees to Tuesday night’s State of the Union address includes two prominent Cuban dissidents, Jorge Luis García Pérez (known as Antúnez) and Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera.
Pérez is a leader of the Cuban resistance movement who was jailed for 17 years for publicly denouncing the Castro regime. He was released in 2007.
His wife, Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, founded the Rosa Parks Feminine Civic Rights Movement to fight against human rights violations in Cuba.
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Key elements of the economic proposals President Barack Obama will outline in his State of the Union address Tuesday appear to be aimed at driving the debate in the 2016 election on income inequality and middle-class economic issues, rather than setting a realistic agenda for Congress.
Obama’s calls for increasing taxes on the wealthy, making community college free for many students and expanding paid leave for workers stand little chance of winning approval from the new Republican majority on Capitol Hill. But the debate over middle-class economics is looking critical for the coming campaign.
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Yahoo’s Meredith Shiner reports:
It may only draw half the viewers it once did, but for staffers at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday night’s annual State of the Union address by the president is their Super Bowl.
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