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joint session
noun
a joint meeting, as of both houses of a bicameral legislature.
The president addressed a joint session of Congress on the crisis in Central America.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of joint session1
Example Sentences
“There will be a little disturbance, but we’re okay with that,” Trump told a joint session of Congress in March.
They allowed all of his Cabinet picks to be confirmed, protested the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress with a spattering of paddles that was largely deemed an embarrassing failure, and, most recently, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer actually whipped Democratic votes to pass Republicans’ government spending bill without securing a single Democratic priority.
In his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, Trump complained that countries across the globe place tariffs on U.S.-made goods.
After the joint session of Congress last month, he walked down to the Supreme Court justices in attendance and shook Chief John Roberts' hand saying, "thank you , thank you, I won't forget it."
The president, whose campaign website promised to “end censorship and reclaim free speech,” and who bragged to a joint session of Congress that he “brought free speech back to America,” has launched a fairly massive effort to punish not just protests on America’s college campuses — a cause that arouses some sympathy from me when those protests venture outside the confines of mere speech — but also on school curricula and internal policies.
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