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WASHINGTON — Two senators from different parties say they will skip tradition and sit together during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
The decision by Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York, announced Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” comes amid calls for greater civility in political discourse after the fatal shootings last weekend in Tucson, Ariz. It follows a letter sent Wednesday by Colorado Sen. Mark Udall urging Republicans and Democrats to sit together in hopes of ending “an arrangement that has become a negative symbol of the divisions in Congress.”
