joint session

noun

1. a joint meeting, as of both houses of a bicameral legislature.

   The president addressed a joint session of Congress on the crisis in Central America.

Word History and Origins

Origin of joint session¹

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Example Sentences

“There will be a little disturbance, but we’re okay with that,” Trump told a joint session of Congress in March.

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They allowed all of his Cabinet picks to be confirmed, protested the president’s speech to a joint session of Congress with a spattering of paddles that was largely deemed an embarrassing failure, and, most recently, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer actually whipped Democratic votes to pass Republicans’ government spending bill without securing a single Democratic priority.

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In his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, Trump complained that countries across the globe place tariffs on U.S.-made goods.

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After the joint session of Congress last month, he walked down to the Supreme Court justices in attendance and shook Chief John Roberts' hand saying, "thank you , thank you, I won't forget it."

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The president, whose campaign website promised to “end censorship and reclaim free speech,” and who bragged to a joint session of Congress that he “brought free speech back to America,” has launched a fairly massive effort to punish not just protests on America’s college campuses — a cause that arouses some sympathy from me when those protests venture outside the confines of mere speech — but also on school curricula and internal policies.

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