And on Tuesday, the governor, a Republican, used his State of the State address to push his education agenda further by calling for an end to teacher tenure, on top of his support for merit pay for teachers based partly on student achievement and adoption of a voucherlike system that would give students in low-performing schools other options.
So I was disappointed when the President used his weekly national address to push, not for a total repeal of the sequester, but for his "compromise" austerity budget - a budget which includes unnecessary cuts to Social Security.
Hard-line ideologues have addressed large crowds to push their idea of Islamic revolution.
Ms. Preckwinkle used her budget address last week to push an initiative close to her heart that also would save taxpayers money: reducing the populations of the Cook County Jail and the county's Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
On Saturday Abbott addressed a "democratic convention" to push the reforms and Turnbull and Baird provided video messages to an audience estimated to be around 500 members.
When President Clinton addressed Congress in 1993 to push his health care plan, "both sides of the aisle received the President warmly," according to a report in The New York Times at the time.
In unexciting times, when there are no calamities to be addressed, liberals push a more robust social agenda, Goldberg claims, using the state and the friendly news media to tar opponents of, say, affirmative action or same-sex marriage as bigots, fanatics and fools.
Mr. Lieberman, no stranger to generating controversy, used Israel's address to the annual General Assembly to push the idea that given various emotional and practical problems, neither side was ready for peace.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's response will be pivotal: Mr. Cuomo ran for governor on a platform that included enacting public financing, and in his State of the State address in January, he promised to push for it in the legislative session this year.
In his State of the State address in January, he pledged to push for a broad package of campaign finance changes, including the creation of a system of public financing for state elections, lower limits on political contributions and a requirement that contributions be disclosed in almost real time.
