Lawmakers Cross Symbolic Aisle -- Show of Bipartisanship for President's Address

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WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Roger F. Wicker, R-Miss., thinks it's a good idea to mingle with his colleagues from across the aisle at tonight's State of the Union address, and will sit beside Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., he said Monday.

"I think it's a good statement of bipartisanship and that's important and, at the same time, I hope it results in less of this jumping up and down - what I've called 'dueling ovations.'. It's gotten out of hand."

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Lawmakers Cross Symbolic Aisle -- Show of Bipartisanship for President's Address

It's merely symbolic, but the gesture of bipartisanship is partly a response to the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, ...

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