by Jenny Huh | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Living, State of the Union
WASHINGTON – A day after President Biden’s State of the Union, a Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order, blocking the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating two parents for providing gender-affirming health care to...
by Zachary Kessel | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON – While Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa) dinged President Joe Biden on issues salient to the American people like crime, education and inflation in the official GOP response to the State of the Union, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took a different approach...
by Angelina Campanile | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, SOTU2020, State of the Union
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Congress should approve his plan to replace Obamacare with a new health care program that would provide “affordable alternative” insurance options and criticized Democrats for trying to impose “a socialist takeover...
by Heena Srivastava | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s call for a wall to secure America’s southern border in his State of the Union address Tuesday night was no surprise to opponents. Jennifer Johnson, the policy director at the Southern Border Communities Coalition, said...
by Ester Wells & Brooke Fowler | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON – DC-area residents had very different reactions to President Donald Trump’s second State of the Union address Tuesday night. But whether they celebrated or denounced the event, emotions were strong. Around 40-50 people gathered at each of two...
by Justin Askenazy and Leslie Bonilla | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON – Several Democratic 2020 presidential candidates expressed their displeasure with many of President Donald Trump’s policies during the State of the Union address Tuesday. Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., could be seen shaking...
by Henry Erlandson, Cameron Peters and Daniel Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 5, 2019 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump got one of his biggest rounds of applause during his State of the Union address Tuesday night when he noted that Congress now has a record-high number of elected women, but it wasn’t lost on the crowd that when the women rose to...
by Nirmal Mulaikal, Samantha Handler and Charlotte Walsh | Feb 5, 2019 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union
WASHINGTON — Before attending his first State of the Union address, Rep. Jefferson Van Drew, D-N.J., felt a sense of excitement and joy, but also feared the president might once again fan partisan flames by rehashing controversial issues. “I hope that right now,...
by Alex Lederman | Jan 13, 2016 | SOTU2018, State of the Union
Our Alex Lederman sat down with Illinois Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowski and Cheri Bustos after the State of the Union to hear their thoughts on President Obama’s address. Schakowski — Evanston’s congresswoman since 1999 — said...
by Ethan Cohen | Jan 13, 2016 | SOTU2018, State of the Union
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by Ethan Cohen | Jan 13, 2016 | SOTU2018, State of the Union
WASHINGTON — It was the third day of reporting for the 21 students in Medill on the Hill. It also happened to be the day the president would deliver his final State of the Union address. Months ago, buoyed by the excitement of the possibilities and the folly of...
by Nicolas Rivero | Jan 12, 2016 | SOTU2018, State of the Union
As police with bomb-sniffing dogs swept the halls of Congress in preparation for the State of the Union early Tuesday night, senators began trundling into the Capitol on the small subway tram that runs between their offices and the Senate basement. Medill intercepted...
