Some GOP lawmakers waited to talk with Biden after address — here's what they told him
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The pandemic may have shrunk the audience of lawmakers at President Biden's address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night, but it didn't put a damper on their time-honored tradition of using the occasion to buttonhole the president after his speech.
It wasn't just Democrats — Republican lawmakers, too, were spotted waiting along Biden's path to raise issues that are important to them. Mr. Biden, a longtime former senator, seemed to be in no hurry to leave after his hour-long speech and could be seen talking with a number of lawmakers for some time afterward. Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, a freshman representative whose district covers Staten Island, New York, used her proximity to hand Mr. Biden her business card.More Related News