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week, and how the date was finally set. athena jones is covering the story for us. now, actually scheduling that speech has turned out to be the hard part. what the american people expect the president to do, what they expect their senators, congress men and women to do is listen to them and take action. they do not give a lick about what day next week the president speaks before congress. reporter: the great date debate came to the first public view through a tweet. at around noon on wednesday, the told hi twitter followers, president obama asked to address a joint session of congress the following wednesday to. in a her to speaker of the house jan boehner, he cited as he called on washington to put politics aside and start making decisions based on what goes best for our country. but in washington, politics are everywhere. the house s first day back in session would have conflicted with the republican presidential debate, something that jay carney called a coinc ....