The President's annual State of the Union address is meant to be a sort of check-in. The Commander-in-Chief takes a limo ride down to the Capitol Building and lets the legislative branch know what his branch has been up to. In practice it's become an opportunity for the President to lay out a laundry list of an agenda which gets insta-polled by lawmakers standing-or-not-standing-up-to-clap.
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