WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday that President Obama’s State of the Union address will take a different course than the annual speech typically follows, eschewing a “laundry list” of proposals for Congress to consider but offering a broad outline of how to tackle the nation’s economic challenges.
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs avoided offering specifics about the speech at his daily briefing, preferring to leave that job to Obama on Tuesday night. He did say that any decisions about policy planks of the speech “have well been made” already and that Obama will continue making revisions of his remarks, as is his custom, “well into early tomorrow evening.”
He also confirmed some of the guests who will sit with the first lady in the House gallery, including Daniel Hernandez, the intern for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) credited with helping save her life after she was shot in the head in Tucson on Jan. 8; the family of Christina Taylor Green, one of six who died in the rampage; and Dr. Peter Rhee of University Medical Center, part of the medical team that treated Giffords.
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