(CNN) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced the full list of her guests at President Obama's address to Congress Tuesday night:
Front row of the Speaker’s box:
-Former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro
-Mayor of Washington, DC Adrian Fenty
-Mr. Paul Pelosi
-Crew Members from U.S. Airways Flight 1549
-Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenburger
-First Officer Jeffrey Skiles
-Doreen Welsh, Flight Attendant and her son Timothy Welsh, 25
-John Sweeney
-Anna Burger
More guests after the jump
Other guests of the Speaker in the Chamber will include:
-Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Tom Foley
-Ambassador and former Member of Congress Lindy Boggs
-Dr. Dorothy Height
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Glad to see John Sweeney in attendance!!
Considering how the unions played a pivotal role in getting Obama elected... NOW the payback (Stimulus Package + Auto Bailout + Box Seat + ....)
America is gettting PUNK'D by Obama & the Democrats!
when did this useless human get to invite guests?
All bleeding heart liberals. Who cares...
Don't matter. I won't watch any of those thieves anymore.
If they're sitting near Nancy, they'd better keep a close eye on their wallets.
We speak so much about "team" in corporate America. It will be telling if the "team" gets more credit than any particular individual.
"Sully" is that quintessential likable "guy" so it is hard to slam him. However he didn't bring that plane down by himself nor did he get the passengers out by himself.
If the President mentions Sullenberger, I hope he also recognizes the USAIRWAYS TEAM. It would send a powerful signal about what matters in this country.
Some one please enlighten me...................is this not the "State of the Union" address? Why on earth is the media not calling it that? This is simply another example of white America racism. Call the speech what you've called it for the past 200+ years, don't change the name (MEDIA) as to down-play it. OMG.
My bad, I stand corrected this is not the "State of the Union" speech!
She made me come.
Say it ain't so, Sully..... how could you accept an invite from this evil and vindictive woman?
I would imagine that there is not an empty seat in the house. Literally. This will be the trend for the next 8 years. It really feels good my fellow Americans doesn't it.
Any speculation on who her empty guests will be?
How can Obama give a speech on fiscal responsibility after singing the porkulus bill.
I find it frightening that ANYONE would sit with that horrible woman!
At this moment, Congress is trying to push through an unconstitutional provision to give the District of Columbia a voting representative in congress, and CNN has said absolutely nothing about it.
But you have plenty of room for crap like this.
SO WHAT! IS THIS REALLY NEWS? WOW! SLOW DAY OR WHAT?
Family party.
If you are not happy join the New American Tea Party and have your voice heard NewAmericanTeaParty.com.
I think the flight crew from 1549 and Sully are appearing at my neighbors bar mitzvah, they are everywhere!
The crew from flight 1549 are heroes.
Pelosi on the other hand is an opportunist and the leader of the worst Congress in history.
Thank god President Obama is there to set her straight!
Nancy Pelosi is such a bonafide loser..........who cares?
We, the American Public, only care about getting rid of such an incompetent
Speaker of the House, who should have never been there in the first place.
This problem is Obama's # ONE PRIORITY!
HE MUST GET RID OF THIS HORRID, IGNORANT, AND HATEFUL, PARTISAN WOMAN!!!!
Pelosi, I'd be much happier to know that you had a psychiatrist for your delusions of grandeur and obsession with power on call...
You are our new President's biggest stumbling block. The GOP he can handle, you are another story altogether!
I like her a lot!!! And so do the people in California who elected her!!
She's tuff and works for the American working class!!! You go girl!!
Karen – Phoenix writes,
"She's tuff and works for the American working class!!! "
Umm Karen – are you old enough to vote?? It's spelled t-o-u-g-h. And what working class do you belong that thinks Pelosi is trying to help out... Arugila Farmers?
Why are people using this forum for partisan bickering? Regardless of what you think of Pelosi, when a President addresses a joint session of Congress, it should represent the coming together of those who we have elected to represent us, all of whom hopefully have our best interest at heart. They all have different ideas of how to get us there, but they all have the same goal.
WE could do without Pelosi, She and Ried have helped cause the mess we are in. THE CONGRESS IS SUPPOSED TO BE OUR REPRESENTATIVES NOT PLATFORMS TO SHOW HOW TOUGH THEY THINK THEY ARE WAKE UP YOU TWO. HOPEFULLY YOU BOTH WILL BE JOB HUNTING IN 2010.
Somebody pass me the TV Guide...there must be something better on tonite...
Karen in Phoenix..... she is a demented and power hungry woman who serves only herself and fellow San Franciscans, the rest of the country be damned.
We couln't care less who is in Nancy's box or Michelle's box.
I have been listening to CNN all day today and all I can say that Brokers who lost their house are not that smart. Everyone here in this country never gave a moment of thought if they could afford their houses, cars, trips ect.ect. I can stress only that people in the USA have to learn not to get things on credit unless you can pay your credit card off every month. That tells you, that you have to live with in your means and not pretend your are rich, because most of you are not rich but like to brag. If you buy a home you can afford and it does not have a Great Room, but a regular livingroom that tells you, you can pay your monthly gasbill for the house. Live with what you can afford, save and the only things you buy on credit in your lifetime should be a house and maybe a car. A house you can afford and a car you can afford. It does not have to be the biggest house on the block and a car not a cadillac. When you grow older and are more established and you do not live from paycheck to paycheck, then buy a Cadillac, BMW or what ever. The word SAVE has not been in our vocabulary in many years, we have to learn the meaning of it.
My apologies to these heroic people who have to sit and squirm near Precious Perky Pelosi and watch that fake smile all night.
@ Paul Pelosi
Well, you better go get a towel and clean up.
pelosi seems like a phony.
She should invite the one really responsible for the safe landing of Flight 1549. That would be the Lord our God. This guy may be a great pilot, but God is the one that pulled that miracle off.
Also, she should invite the CEO of Del Monte and Starkist. After all they are responsible for a great deal of her wealth. Check out American Samoa and how she kept the minimum wage increase from going into effect there. Starkist, owned by Delmonte employs 75% of the people there. Her husband owns 17M in stock in Starkist.
They are headquartered in SF. Something smells fishy to me.
It is nice that Pelosi is having the crew involved in the crash in the Hudson. Thank God they all survived. What about the other crash with no survivors, how about some of their family members. You heard about that Hudson crash for weeks and still hearing about it and nothing more on the crash that killed all crew and passengers.
Pelosi's father is the former mayor of Baltimore.
Just thought you'd want to know.
James L., down boy! You are just itching for another opportunity to howl "racism". We all need to grow up and move on. Obama is the "Post racial" president. He said so himself. Who are you to doubt him?
@ Bob
Haven't you ever heard of "no taxation without representation" before? The people of D.C. pay taxes just the same as any other state citizen, but they have no voting representation in Congress. Does that sound right?
Under the Nancy Pelosi's leadership of the Speaker of House, it has happened that DNC is to manufacture of sex scandals, a corrupt implementation to sell senete seat, to pay to play, a dirty money laundry and even porn. The following examples which have happened for not during 10 years, but for one and half year from 2008 except Jim McGreevey's case(D-NJ).
Burris (D-IL Sanator-perjury)
Cohen (D-NJ Rep.-Porn w/child at office)
Bill Richardson(D-New Mexico Gov.-received illegal dirty money )
Rod Blago(D-ILL Gov.-Criminal to sale the seat)
Rahm Emmanuel(D-ILL Rep.-misleading of the Obama's seat)
David Paterson(D-NY Gov. took cocain,had affairs 3 times)
Jim McGreevey(D-NJ Gov.married man have affair w/gay)
Eilot Spilzer(D-NY Gov.to buy prostitution & mooney laundry)
Charles Rangel (D-Rep NY, Tax Fraud, my district)-Pelosi still stands with this frauder.
John Ed (D-NC the canditate extramarital affair,NC),
Tim Mahoney (D-Rep.Fla), Newsome (D-SF Mayor, affair w/wife of his aid), Tony Villar (D-LA Mayor, divorced as affair)
Paul Pelosi (husband of Pelosi, under investigated)
12 abortionists aborting,
11 teachers not teaching,
10 union leaders unionizing,
9 chicago thugs thugging,
8 gays-a-marrying,
7 athiests denying,
6 million condoms,
5 moooooore pork projects.......
4 more years of misery,
3 backstabbing senators,
2 turtle necks...
And an incompetent speaker of the house.
Blah blah God blah blah miracle blah blah blah. God gave us free will and the ability to act upon it. The guy is a hero for HIS ACTIONS and no amount of religiosity can or will take that away from him. Period.
If Mr. Paul Pelosi is her husband, then he should be there. Especially since he is on her payroll to the tune of over 100 grand annually.
Let's pray for some kind of miracle in hopes that she is defeated in the next election.
In the words of Mark Twain:
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a Liberal. Ah, but I repeat myself.
I am 100% for Pres. Obama, however, Pelosi and Reid are two self centered politicos if I ever saw one. As a woman she is the biggest disappointment to me. I wish they both would disappear, they don't make like easy for our President, I think they were better to Busho.
Ok people, why are we attacking the people of 1549? Everyone on that crew deserves to be considered heroes, let's separate the fact that they are going from the fact they agree with Pelosi. I doubt they all do. They deserve the recognition for landing without any casualties.
Karen-Phoenix. You are scary to say everyone likes her a lot!!! You must be related to her to say that!!! Pelosi knows nothing of the working class, if she did, she would be taking a regular airline flight and spending her own money to go jotting around, not the taxpayers! Now I know what is wrong with this country when people like you are rooting for this woman
I wish Nancy Pelosi would retire. She rammed this spending bill through congress to borrow $800 Billion from our children and grandchildren to fund her pet projects, not even giving anyone enough time to read the bill before voting. She is pathetic and should be ashamed of herself. If Obama wants change, the first most important change should be getting rid of Nancy Pelosi.
@sniffit: If God had not been on hand, no amount of human intervention would have landed that flight safely. If you do not want to believe that, fine, but I really feel sorry for you. Period.
what can you say, she after all is a San-Fransisco Liberal, we are lucky that she did not invite Cindy Sheehan (who ran against her of course). I would have invited Oprah Winfrey though...she is da best...lol....
GO OPRAH~
James L.--It has not been known as The State of the Union for many, many years.
Idiot ! Do some research.
I thought she was on world tour at my expence
James L.-Maybe this will help educate you a little.
" Americans may have gotten used to hearing the recognizable phrase over the years, but a new president’s first speech to Congress has not been called a "State of the Union” since 1977. Instead, the event often is referred to simply as a “message” or address to Congress, sometimes on a specific policy topic. "
To like Pelosi, you have to be from her district in Calif. This person is dangerous for the USA.
It's fascinating how people can take any story, no matter how non-controversial and still manage to come up with hateful, snarky comments. It's kind of like watching a train wreck...riveting yet repellant.