2012 State of the Union Address
Full video of the speech as published by the White House | |
| Date | January 24, 2012 |
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| Time | 9:00 p.m. EST |
| Duration | 1 hour, 4 minutes |
| Venue | House Chamber, United States Capitol |
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
| Coordinates | 38°53′19.8″N 77°00′32.8″W / 38.888833°N 77.009111°W |
| Type | State of the Union Address |
| Participants | |
| Footage | C-SPAN |
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| Website | Full text by Archives.gov |
The 2012 State of the Union Address was given by the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, on January 24, 2012, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 112th United States Congress. It was Obama's third State of the Union Address and his fourth speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, John Boehner, accompanied by Joe Biden, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
In his speech, he focused on education reform, repairing America's infrastructure with money not used on the Iraq War, and creating new energy sources in America.