President Barack Obama called on Congress to pass a $447 billion package of tax cuts and spending to get America back to work in a major speech before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on September 8, 2011.

A hot microphone on the podium caught Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Vice President Joe Biden chatting about their golf games as they waited for the president to arrive in the House chamber.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

Vice President Joe Biden

A hot microphone on the podium caught Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Vice President Joe Biden chatting about their golf games as they waited for the president to arrive in the House chamber.