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Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Jim Wright, accompanied by Dan Quayle, the vice president in his capacity as the president of the Senate. The speech is referred to as the presidential economic address or the address on administration goals. During his speech, President Bush presented his proposed federal budget. [1] [2]
It was Bush's third and final State of the Union Address and his fourth and final speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker , Tom Foley , accompanied by Dan Quayle , the vice president , in his capacity as the president of the Senate .
February 9, 1989: President Bush addressed a joint session of Congress; February 23, 1989: Senate Armed Services Committee rejected President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense; March 24, 1989: Exxon Valdez oil spill; December 20, 1989: Operation Just Cause launched to overthrow Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega
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He became the third-youngest Senate Majority Leader in U.S. history, and had served fewer total years in Congress than any person previously chosen to lead that body. [34] In his 2005 book, Herding Cats, A Lifetime in Politics , Frist's predecessor, Trent Lott , accused Frist of conspiring to push Lott out of the Senate Majority Leader post, a ...
January 23, 2007: President Bush delivered the 2007 State of the Union Address; August 2, 2007: The Republican minority disputed the results of a vote to recommit. This led to an investigation by the House Select Committee on Voting Irregularities. [10] December 18, 2007: The Senate set a record for the most cloture votes. [11]
Watch as the Senate Republicans speak for the first time since John Thune was elected to serve as Senate majority leader for the next two years. Senate Republicans nominated the Senate Minority ...
PHOTO: Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, speaks during a bus tour stop for the Ohio Senate race in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 28, 2024. (Joe Maiorana/AP)