guest ticket

Rather than finding your bipartisan seatmate, rank-and-file lawmakers now get strategic advice about how to use their one guest ticket as a political message to show their opposition to the opposing party.

Lawmakers typically get one guest ticket apiece for presidential addresses, as they will for Tuesday’s prime-time speech, and the invites often go to family, friends or someone from back home.

Lawmakers typically get one guest ticket apice for presidential addresses, as they will for Tuesday’s prime-time speech.

Every lawmaker gets one guest ticket to the president’s annual speech, though congressional leaders get extras.

Every lawmaker gets one guest ticket to the president’s annual speech.