It looks like the State of the Union, and will be carried on live television, just like those annual addresses are. But it’s called something else: a joint address to Congress. And it has its ...

Roosevelt began referring to it as the “Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union."Shortly after he was sworn in for his first term in 1981, Reagan addressed a joint session of ...

Here's what to know about Trump's speech and why it's not being called a State of the Union. Trump is set to address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, March 4. Multiple media outlets have ...

Here's why the event is called a joint congressional address: The State of the Union is an annual speech given by the president to Congress at the start of most calendar years, providing ...

On paper, Trump is merely delivering an address to a joint session of Congress but in practice, the speech is more-or-less considered to be an unofficial State of the Union address, the marquee ...