Bono will be among the guests of First Lady Jill Biden at tonight’s State of the Union address, joining a list that includes the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Oksana Markarova and Paul Pelosi, t…
Also on the list: Maurice and Kandice Barron, whose daughter is a survivor of a rare form of pediatric cancer; Lynette Bonar, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who is an executive at Tuba City Health Care Corp.
Other guests: Mitzi Colin Lopez, an advocate of comprehensive immigration reform who is a DREAMer, brought to the United States when she was a child; Maurice “Dion” Dykes, who is training to become a teacher through the Registered Apprenticeship program; Kate Foley, a 10th grade integrated manufacturing student at an Illinois high school; Darlene Gaffney, a breast cancer survivor who has become an advocate for early detection screenings; Doug Griffin, who has raised awareness about addiction...
More guests: Brandon Tsay, who disarmed the assailant responsible for the mass shooting last month in Monterey Park, CA; RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, Nichols’ mother and stepfather; and Amanda and Josh Zurawski. Amanda Zurawski was 18 weeks pregnant when her water broke. Doctors were not able to intervene out of concerns that treatment would violate the Texas abortion ban.
The highlighting of State of the Union guests dates to 1982, when President Ronald Reagan invited Lenny Skutnik to sit in the gallery. Skutnik had recently dove into the icy waters of the Potomac to save a passenger from a plane crash.
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