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Speech by US president Bill Clinton
The
1999 State of the Union Address
was given by the 42nd
president of the United States
,
Bill Clinton
, on January 19, 1999, at 9:00 p.m.
EST
, in the chamber of the
United States House of Representatives
to the
106th United States Congress
. It was Clinton's sixth
State of the Union Address
and his
seventh speech
to a
joint session of the United States Congress
. Presiding over this joint session was the
House speaker
,
Dennis Hastert
, accompanied by
Al Gore
, the
vice president
, in his capacity as the
president of the Senate
.
President Clinton discussed the economy, the federal budget, taxes and focused on the budget surplus, then at $70 billion. The president also discussed the future of
Social Security
, education, foreign relations and "solving the so-called
Y2K
computer problem". The president did not mention the then-occurring
impeachment trial
in the Senate.
The speech lasted 1:18:40 and consisted of 7,514 words.
[1]
In the speech, the president acknowledged the widows of the officers killed in the
United States Capitol shooting incident of 1998
.
Before the speech, President Clinton shook hands with Speaker Hastert and Vice President Gore. Speaker Hastert introduced the president with the traditional words "I have the high privilege and the distinct honor of presenting to you the president of the United States". After the speech, Hastert and Gore shook hands with the president.
The
Republican Party
response was delivered by Representatives
Jennifer Dunn
and
Steve Largent
in
Washington, D.C.
[2]
Andrew Cuomo
, the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
, served as the
designated survivor
.
[3]
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- Legend:
Address to Joint Session
- Written message
- Written message with national radio address
* Split into multiple parts
- †
Included a detailed written supplement
- ‡
Not officially a "State of the Union"
Presidents
William Henry Harrison
(1841) and
James Garfield
(1881) died in office before delivering a State of the Union
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