President Trump Invited to Deliver SOTU Address in Raleigh by North Carolina Speaker

Michael Patrick Leahy

Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives Tim Moore invited President Trump to deliver the State of the Union address in the chambers of the state's House of Representatives in Raleigh in a letter that was dated January 17 and released to the press Friday afternoon.

On Wednesday, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) asked President Trump to cancel his State of the Union address, scheduled for January 29, in the chambers of the House of Representatives, due to the partial federal government shutdown.

On Thursday, President Trump denied Pelosi access to a military plane for a planned seven day international trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan, also citing the partial federal shutdown.

The Constitution requires that the President deliver a written State of the Union report annually to the Congress. The State of the Union was not delivered in a speech to a joint session of Congress in the chambers of the U.S. House of Representatives until 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson was the first to do so.

Every year since then, the president has delivered the State of the Union address in person to a joint session of Congress in the chambers of the U.S. House of Representatives, in addition to delivering a written report, as required by the Constitution........To Read More.....