President Barack Obama is expected to give his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
You can watch the president’s speech here at 9 p.m. ET:
live blog Oldest Newest Share + Today 8:05 PM ESTSteny Hoyer On Obama, Republicans HuffPost’s Sabrina Siddiqui sat down with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) ahead of President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address.
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HuffPost’s Mike McAuliff sat down with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) ahead of Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address.
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HuffPost’s Roque Planas reports:
Republicans’ Spanish-language rebuttal to this year’s State of the Union address will come largely from a politician who wants to make English the official language of the United States and sued to keep her state from printing voting materials in other languages.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), an immigration hard-liner, will deliver the traditional GOP rebuttal Tuesday night. Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) will deliver the Spanish version of the Republicans’ response, but it remains unclear whether the congressman will read a translated version of Ernst’s remarks or give a more original speech.
House Republicans initially said in a Jan. 15 press release that Curbelo would read a translation of Ernst’s speech. But by Tuesday, after Mother Jones reported on the irony of broadcasting Ernst’s translated speech in Spanish given her positions, the press release had been edited. According to the Latin Post, which took a screenshot of the old version, the release no longer says that Curbelo’s remarks will be a translation of Ernst’s.
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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), one of the president’s biggest critics on immigration, took to Twitter on Tuesday to disparage one of the White House’s State of the Union guests, a 21-year-old undocumented student named Ana Zamora.
Zamora will be attending the State of the Union as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama. King’s tweet called Zamora a “deportable,” referring to her status as an undocumented immigrant. Zamora has work authorization and is able to stay in the U.S. as part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA. King has been among those leading the charge to kill that policy.
#Obama perverts "prosecutorial discretion" by inviting a deportable to sit in place of honor at #SOTU w/1st Lady. I should sit with Alito.
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) January 20, 2015
— Elise Foley
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When President Obama delivers the State of the Union Tuesday night, he will outline ideas that have been months in the making. The speech is typically the most watched presidential address of the year – 33 million viewers caught it live in 2014 – yet many people may not realize how much goes into the big night.
“This is sort of the World Series, and the Final Four, and the Super Bowl – all rolled into one for the Obama speechwriting operation,” says Dan Pfeiffer, senior adviser to Obama.
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#StateOfTheUnion is tonight. This is how I'm going to watch from work! @WhiteHouse http://t.co/ufWIRBCORy
— Connie Britton (@conniebritton) January 20, 2015
The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake reports on an ad running in the Washington area during Obama’s speech that likens “climate change deniers to other science deniers who turned out to be very wrong.” Read about it here.
Sneak peek at my prep for tonight’s Republican Address following #SOTU pic.twitter.com/kF8a9IVfR4
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) January 20, 2015
HuffPost is interviewing Obama administration officials immediately after the president’s annual State of the Union address on Tuesday.
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The AP reports:
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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