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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Rep. Jed Hensarling (R-Texas) both expressed  on Wednesday separately a blend of hope and skepticism that President Obama's State of the Union speech could inspire change in an often gridlocked Congress.

"We had a big thing about who you're going to sit with last night," Hoyer said on CNN, referring to the bipartisan seating arrangements shared by much of Congress as a show of unity for the president's speech. "It's not so much who we sit with it's who we work with" that overcomes partisanship, he said.

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