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The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« on: January 23, 2019, 08:19:19 pm »
GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
By Juliegrace Brufke and Scott Wong - 01/23/19 03:03 PM EST


 

President Trump won’t be delivering the State of the Union address on the House floor on Jan. 29, but GOP lawmakers are offering a number of alternatives for him to consider.

Most of them involve their own districts, as many of the Republicans would love to host Trump’s speech — if he decides to deliver it someplace outside the Capitol.

Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Trump could come down to the SuperDome in New Orleans. 

“We are gonna be a little more free the next couple weeks than we should be after the Saints were robbed,” Scalise told The Hill, referring to the NFL team’s loss on a controversial referee’s call on Sunday.

Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) said the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., would be a “great place” for Trump to give the speech. That was the site of Abraham Lincoln’s historic speech in which he uttered the words: “A house divided against itself, cannot stand.”

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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2019, 08:20:37 pm »
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Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) said the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill.

My Congressman fails to mention that the State Cap is a Dem stronghold and would never allow this to happen....
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2019, 08:22:12 pm »
Doesn't the Constitution stipulate that the address is to be delivered to congress?
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2019, 08:23:56 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on January 23, 2019, 08:22:12 pm
Doesn't the Constitution stipulate that the address is to be delivered to congress?

He can send the written speech to them as they used to do...
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2019, 08:29:55 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on January 23, 2019, 08:22:12 pm
Doesn't the Constitution stipulate that the address is to be delivered to congress?

Article II, Section 3

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

The Constitution doesn't stipulate where he gives the State of the Union.
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2019, 08:45:52 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on January 23, 2019, 08:20:37 pm
My Congressman fails to mention that the State Cap is a Dem stronghold and would never allow this to happen....
Mike Madigan would not approve. 
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2019, 08:49:50 pm »
   Forget all the Theatrics, give it from the Oval Office at the Resolute desk.
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2019, 08:49:59 pm »
Scalise is out of his mind. There’d be so many people on both sides in the Superdome, it would become a riot in minutes. Picture a Taiwan parliament meeting on steroids.
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2019, 08:52:54 pm »
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Scalise is out of his mind. There’d be so many people on both sides in the Superdome, it would become a riot in minutes. Picture a Taiwan parliament meeting on steroids.

It would be like Katrina all over again in there!
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2019, 08:53:22 pm »
Quote from: edpc on January 23, 2019, 08:49:59 pm
Scalise is out of his mind. There’d be so many people on both sides in the Superdome, it would become a riot in minutes. Picture a Taiwan parliament meeting on steroids.

Picture Idiocracy!


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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2019, 08:55:55 pm »
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It would be like Katrina all over again in there!

Rape, crack smoking, sewage in the aisles and people throwing themselves off the mezzanine...
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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2019, 08:59:03 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on January 23, 2019, 08:55:55 pm
Rape, crack smoking, sewage in the aisles and people throwing themselves off the mezzanine...

And that is before the Pres shows up.  Murder and mayhem to follow
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2019, 09:07:39 pm »
Ovaltine. I mean Oval Office.

A more pressing issue:

“We are gonna be a little more free the next couple weeks than we should be after the Saints were robbed,”

Yes or no?

Seriously, though, no public venues. It would be a security nightmare. TSA is grounded.

Besides, Trump would be accused of blowing money and grandstanding.

Too much of a price for a hotdog.
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2019, 09:08:37 pm »
Quote from: corbe on January 23, 2019, 08:49:50 pm
   Forget all the Theatrics, give it from the Oval Office at the Resolute desk.

Pence and McConnell should give him an invite to deliver the speech from the Floor of the Senate.
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2019, 09:09:57 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on January 23, 2019, 09:08:37 pm
Pence and McConnell should give him an invite to deliver the speech from the Floor of the Senate.

Wouldn't that look a little partisan?

oh...wait...
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« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2019, 09:14:00 pm »
Quote from: bigheadfred on January 23, 2019, 09:09:57 pm
Wouldn't that look a little partisan?

oh...wait...

Invite the Dem Senators too...as well as the SCOTUS and The Service Chiefs.

Leave a copy of the address in an envelope on the ledge of the Speakers well in the House addressed to Pelosi and after that she can pound sand.
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« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2019, 09:16:37 pm »
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2019, 09:18:03 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on January 23, 2019, 09:08:37 pm
Pence and McConnell should give him an invite to deliver the speech from the Floor of the Senate.

And place an empty chair next to like, like Clint Eastwood.
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2019, 09:21:00 pm »
    Delivering it in the Senate will deliver nothing but more popcorn for this $hit show.  It will be just like the last 28 SOTU, a bunch of BS and promises, reflecting nothing and devoid of reality.
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #20 on: January 23, 2019, 09:24:59 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on January 23, 2019, 09:14:00 pm
Invite the Dem Senators too...as well as the SCOTUS and The Service Chiefs.

Leave a copy of the address in an envelope on the ledge of the Speakers well in the House addressed to Pelosi and after that she can pound sand.

I like it. But finding that address may be beyond her capabilities, from what I've seen.

Maybe something simpler. A poster with an arrow pointing "Over Here".
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Quote from: bigheadfred on January 23, 2019, 09:24:59 pm
I like it. But finding that address may be beyond her capabilities, from what I've seen.

Maybe something simpler. A poster with an arrow pointing "Over Here".

He could tack it to the door to her office...which is right off of Statuary Hall (The old original House Chamber) as he walks to the Senate chambers.  I'm sure one of her staffers would find it and get it to her.
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Re: The Hill: GOP lawmakers offer several locations for Trump address
« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2019, 09:28:45 pm »
Yah, I don't see why the SOTU can't just be televised from the Oval Office.  What's the big deal here?  Other than the idiot left trying to make it a big deal.
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« Reply #23 on: January 23, 2019, 09:31:56 pm »
Quote from: XenaLee on January 23, 2019, 09:28:45 pm
Yah, I don't see why the SOTU can't just be televised from the Oval Office.  What's the big deal here?  Other than the idiot left trying to make it a big deal.


They’re usually long speeches with purposefully written applause lines. I can’t see him delivering it from such a sterile location. It would be really dull.
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« Reply #24 on: January 23, 2019, 09:33:59 pm »
Quote from: edpc on January 23, 2019, 09:31:56 pm

They’re usually long speeches with purposefully written applause lines. I can’t see him delivering it from such a sterile location. It would be really dull.

Maybe add a laugh track?
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