Reply #1: I think a President unveiling a jobs plan that will be introduced to and must be passed by Congress [View All]

[Empowerer]

needs to be delivered to a joint session of Congress.

I'm not aware of any previous president ever unveiling a major piece of legislation in an Oval Office address. It just doesn't work.

He needs to give this speech in the well of the House to the entire federal legislature. So what if he does it on September 8th instead of September 7th?

Now if the Speaker had refused to invite him at all or if he insisted that the first available date was weeks away, that would have been different. But one day doesn't make a difference at all. And for the President to completely upend his goal of a joint session address in order to try to score an irrelevant political point would be a fiasco.