Whenever the president or a foreign leader addresses a joint session of Congress, you will see the Vice President (the titular head of the Senate) and the Speaker of the House seated directly behind and above the presenter during his speech.
If you watched Obama’s first State of the Union address two years ago, you couldn’t help but notice that every time there was the slightest applause, Nancy Pelosi would pop-up out of her seat to join in the applause, thus forcing Joe Biden to do the same. A number of times Democrats applauded Obama at the end of each sentence so that Pelosi and Biden were bouncing up and down like ping pong balls.
During Tuesday’s State of the Union address, John Boehner was seated in the Speaker’s chair instead of Pelosi. While both stood up to applaud several times, there was none of that incessant popping up and down by Boehner and Biden during Obama's speech. The Vice President seemed much relieved.
I, for one, did not miss Pelosi’s shit-eating grin every time she popped up to applaud Obama.
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