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joint session
noun
- a joint meeting, as of both houses of a bicameral legislature:
The president addressed a joint session of Congress on the crisis in Central America.
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In his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, Trump complained that countries across the globe place tariffs on U.S.-made goods.
After the joint session of Congress last month, he walked down to the Supreme Court justices in attendance and shook Chief John Roberts' hand saying, "thank you , thank you, I won't forget it."
The president, whose campaign website promised to “end censorship and reclaim free speech,” and who bragged to a joint session of Congress that he “brought free speech back to America,” has launched a fairly massive effort to punish not just protests on America’s college campuses — a cause that arouses some sympathy from me when those protests venture outside the confines of mere speech — but also on school curricula and internal policies.
As compared to the debacle that was his meeting with Zelenskyy, Trump's address to a Joint Session of Congress last week was an opportunity for Trump to revel in his power as president and leader of the American "spectocracy."
President Donald Trump gave his first address to a joint session of Congress in five years this week.
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