Obama just gave his final State of the Union speech
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US Vice President Joe Biden, US Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and US President Barack Obama.
US President Barack Obama is giving his final State of the Union address.
Obama is speaking on Tuesday night to both chambers of Congress for the final State of the Union address of his presidency.
Though State of the Union addresses are typically laundry lists of legislative and executive goals the president wants to accomplish in the following year, the president is expected to take a different approach this year.
Given the lack of big legislation on the horizon, Obama will give a more general address about his vision for the future of the nation.
"But for my final address to this chamber, I don't want to talk just about the next year. I want to focus on the next five years, 10 years, and beyond," Obama said.
He continued:
We live in a time of extraordinary change — change that's reshaping the way we live, the way we work, our planet and our place in the world. It's change that promises amazing medical breakthroughs, but also economic disruptions that strain working families. It promises education for girls in the most remote villages, but also connects terrorists plotting an ocean away. It's change that can broaden opportunity, or widen inequality. And whether we like it or not, the pace of this change will only accelerate.
Watch the speech below, beginning at 9 p.m. EST, from the White House:
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