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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. This was the last State of the Union address by President Bush, who lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in the 1992 election.
The union defied the extension of the strike deadline, and no other unions joined in the strike as a result. Even though the strike was confined to just one railroad, 40 railroads in the United States all responded by halting their operations, which unions said was an attempt by the railroad industry to force government intervention in the ...
Bush opposed the Kyoto Protocol, saying that the treaty neglected and exempted 80 percent of the world's population [43] and would have cost tens of billions of dollars per year. [44] Bush announced the Clear Skies Act of 2003, [45] aimed at amending the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through the use of emissions trading programs. The ...
Across the country, over 14 million workers are members of unions, and that voting bloc is one politicians want to please. In Michigan, support from unions can make or break a presidential ...
The 2004 State of the Union Address was given by the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush, on January 20, 2004, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 108th United States Congress.
George W. Bush delivering the 2002 State of the Union. During his State of the Union address on January 29, 2002, President Bush identified North Korea, Iran, and Iraq as representing significant threats to the United States.
Aug 19, 2024; Chicago, IL, USA; April Verrett, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center.
President Bush began his State of the Union Address for the year by reflecting on the memory of Coretta Scott King, who died earlier that day, and Martin Luther King Jr., "the husband who was taken so long ago". [1] Bush then paralleled "moments of national mourning," an indirect reference to the September 11, 2001 attacks with "national ...