US president Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address in Washington on Tuesday night, speaking for 80 minutes, nearly the longest by an American president. Jayapal, others boycott addressSome Democratic lawmakers boycotted the address, including Pramila Jayapal, the Indian American member of the House of Representatives from Washington state. Murdered Indian techie’s wife among special attendeesSunayana Dumala, whose husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla was murdered in a hate-crime last January, was in the visitors’ gallery when Trump made his address. A Kennedy steps upDemocratic Congressman from Massachusetts, Joe Kennedy III — a member of the American political royal family — delivered the customary response of the opposition party to the president’s address. Then there was Marco Rubio, whose made an ungainly lunge for a bottle of water in 2013.

Source: Hindustan Times January 31, 2018 08:03 UTC