SOTU Seating Chart

With all the discussion of bipartisan niceties after the terrible tragedy in Arizona, many Congressional Democrats and Republics vowed to intermingle with respect to their seating arrangement at the State of the Union. The New York Times put a seating chart allowing us to see exactly who was sitting next to who. A notable exception to this trend was Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who sat between fellow Tea Party Republicans Jamie Herrera Beutler (R-WA) and Jean Schmidt (R-OH).