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Joint Meetings and Joint SessionsHistorically there are three methods for receiving foreign leaders and dignitaries: Joint Meetings, Joint Sessions, and separate House and Senate Receptions. A Joint Meeting is the preferred method for receiving addresses from foreign leaders and dignitaries. Joint Meetings are used for special commemorative events and to receive addresses by domestic dignitaries. To initiate a Joint Meeting, both houses, by resolution or by unanimous consent, declare themselves in recess for a joint gathering in the House Chamber. House Rule IV governs this procedure: “The Hall of the House shall be used only for the legislative business of the House and for caucus and conference meetings of its Members, except when the House agrees to take part in any ceremonies to be observed therein. The Speaker may not entertain a motion for the suspension of this clause.” As precedent has evolved, however, the House has tended to use unanimous consent, rather than a resolution, for the purpose of receiving a foreign leader. A Joint Session of Congress has been used almost exclusively to receive the President’s State of the Union Address (prior to 1942 called the Annual Message), other presidential addresses, and the counting of electoral votes for the President and Vice President of the U.S. Both chambers follow a formal procedure to establish these occasions by adopting a concurrent resolution. Only twice have foreign dignitaries addressed a Joint Session of Congress: French Ambassador Andre de Laboulaye (20 May 1934), to mark the centennial of the death of the Marquis de Lafayette, and Cuban Ambassador Guillermo Belt (19 April 1948), to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Cuban independence after the Spanish-American War in 1898.
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More than 10,000 city workers stopped paying their union dues after the landmark Supreme Court decision in June gave them the right to end the payments. City records show that there were 314,770 ci…
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Canada's problem in renegotiating NAFTA is that it has no bargaining power. And the Americans know it.
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Per a Washington Post report, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) claims that after the 2013 government shutdown over the Affordable Care Act both he and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) "had their money spigot turned off by (GOP) leadership because blocking access to money is how leadership disciplines members.
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Conservative group accuses Clinton of selling access for donations.
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A Chicago man who prosecutors said was playing the "knockout game" was sentenced to probation Monday during a hearing in Adams County Circuit Court.
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#1358
Although more Americans have health insurance coverage, 25 percent of non-elderly Amer
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Several discrepancies have surfaced in the story of Baltimore widow Julie Baker, who received $43,396 in public donations before abruptly shutting her GoFundMe account.
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During a town hall event in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was called out for being a racist and inciting violence. She called on a self identified person of color...
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The top special operations aide to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the "banner of Islam will fly over the White House." The Washington Times reported: A top special operations aide to Iranâs leader says his troops are in…
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On Thursday, Bill Ayers got into a Twitter war with an apparent former infantry officer. Here’s what it looked like:
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A Fox News personality argued Tuesday that Hillary Clinton's focus on women's issues amounted to a "war on men."
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A Merced police officer was shot early Saturday during a traffic stop on H Street that erupted into a gun battle between officers and at least one man.
#1365
‘You can’t legislate morality’ actually means ‘You shouldn’t make laws based on your morality, but on mine instead.’ Here's why.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.-- A record crowd of 16,000 received Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a long standing ovation on Monday at the 2015 AIPAC (America-Israel Public Affairs Committee) Policy Conference.
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The House Budget Committee is set to try again on Thursday morning.
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Walmart's right to sell firearms and ammunition is being threatened by a lawsuit.
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The Justice Department on Wednesday announced charges against a State Department employee who prosecutors said failed to disclose contact she had with Chinese intelligence agents and accepted gifts from the agents - ranging from cash to a laptop computer to a fully furnished apartment.
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As illegal immigrants look for alternatives to remaining put in the U.S., Canada is seen as a good alternative, particularly because of past public statements made by Prime Minister Trudeau. But now the migration is raising inter-governmental tensions there reminiscent of the tensions in the EU.
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Tense relations between the White House and Congress aren’t unusual, and certainly not new. Yet over the past month they’ve hit lows not seen since President Clinton’s impeachment trial.
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It's a cold March in South Carolina. So President Obama, who travels even short distances in a 747, is warning about global warming.
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While serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton eschewed government e-mail in favor of an account through the private clintonemail.com web domain.
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BERKELEY, CA—The University of California, Berkeley campus has been evacuated and a hazardous materials team has quarantined the specific location where a college student may have been exposed to a worldview different from her own early Thursday. According to firsthand accounts, local freshman Cindi Atherton may have come into contact with a non-progressive opinion when she overheard another ?
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The voice is instantly familiar; the tone, confident, even cocky; the cadence, distinctly Trumpian... Read More At: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/d...
