One line in President Joe Biden's speech today, where he deviated from the prepared text, stuck out because it was so obviously wrong.
Welcome to our live coverage of US President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congress.
Technically, this was not a State of the Union speech, but played out in much the same way: Mr Biden stood in the House of Representatives, with Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker Nancy Pelosi behind him, and laid out his agenda in a nationally televised address.
Read on for all the highlights and reaction from the US.
We'll close off the blog here, because it's after 11pm here in the US and that's well past my bedtime, damn it.
If you're after any of the highlights from Joe Biden's address to Congress, or the reaction from the other side, keep scrolling down.
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Here's another key line from the Republican response to Joe Biden.
"This administration inherited a tide that had already turned," said Senator Tim Scott.
Expect to hear this a lot from Republicans over the next 18 months or so, until the midterm elections. As Mr Biden tries to take credit for the vaccine rollout and America's economic recovery, they'll try to argue that he just inherited an improving situation from Donald Trump.
Of course, when Mr Biden took office in January, the US was averaging about 250,000 new COVID infections each day. That has fallen dramatically since.
The President mentioned China several times throughout the speech. On one of those occasions, he deviated from the prepared text to deliver this unscripted remark.
"Secretary of State (Antony) Blinken will tell you, I spent a lot of time with President Xi (Jinping)," he said.
"Travelled over 17,000 miles with him. Spent over 24 hours in private discussions with him. When he called to congratulate me (on winning the election), we had a two-hour discussion.
"He's deadly earnest about becoming the most significant, consequential nation in the world."
The emphasis there is mine.
Mr Biden's has made the claim that he travelled more than 17,000 miles (27,000 kilometres) with Xi many times – so many times, in fact, that The Washington Post's fact checking team felt compelled to investigate it in detail a couple of months ago.
Short version: the figure is absurdly, bafflingly inaccurate.
There is no way Mr Biden and Xi travelled together for anywhere near that distance. The kindest interpretation the fact-checkers came up with only yielded a total of 5600 miles.
Asked about it, a White House official conceded the 17,000 number was not correct.
It's unclear why the President keeps saying it when it's so obviously untrue.
Senator Tim Scott is up on his feet delivering the Republican response to Joe Biden's address.
He started by telling viewers the President had already failed to keep his promise to unite the country.
"Our President seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words. But President Biden promised you a specific type of leadership," Mr Scott said.
"He promised to unite the nation, to lower the temperature, to govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted. This was the pitch. You just heard it again.
"Three months in, the actions of the President and his party are pulling us further and further apart."
Sen. Tim Scott: "Our president seems like a good man. His speech was full of good words. But Pres. Biden promised you a specific type of leadership…Three months in, the actions of the president and his party are pulling us further and further apart." https://t.co/7PbxXE8Nuu pic.twitter.com/7W6cXJ9o48
— ABC News (@ABC) April 29, 2021
Not many of moments of levity during that speech, but the internet is at least enjoying some footage of Republican Senator Ted Cruz appearing to doze off in the audience.
This happened as Joe Biden spoke about immigration reform.
Mr Cruz did revive himself once the speech was over to tweet out his thoughts on it.
"For the millions of Americans who found something better to do tonight than listen to Joe Biden outline his socialist vision for our country, I can summarise his speech in three words for you: boring, but radical," the Senator said.
Ted Cruz literally falling asleep in Biden speech
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) April 29, 2021
He is all of us pic.twitter.com/18Lpo8EDPp
Ted Cruz appears to be dozing off pic.twitter.com/nFva4LBCkj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2021
Ted Cruz is in the joint address KNOCKED out pic.twitter.com/eKTOJorcwY
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 29, 2021
Joe Biden wrapped up his speech by referring to the Capitol riot, and linking it back to that recurring thread about American democracy competing with autocracy to win the century.
"Lives were put at risk. Many of your lives. Lives were lost. Extraordinary courage was summoned," he said of the riot.
"The insurrection was an existential crisis, a test of whether our democracy could survive. But the struggle is far from over.
"The question of whether a democracy can survive is ancient and urgent.
"America's adversaries, the autocrats of the world, are betting we can't. They believe we're too full of anger and division and rage. They look at images of the mob that attacked the Capitol as proof that the sun is setting on America.
"But they're wrong. You and I know they're wrong. But we have to prove they're wrong."
He said US democracy was "durable and strong".
"Autocrats will not win the future. We will. America will," said Mr Biden.
"We've stared into the abyss of insurrection and autocracy, pandemic and pain, and we the people did not flinch.
"It has never, ever been a good bet to bet against America, and it still isn't."
By my reckoning, the speech was almost an hour long, so his final line was certainly appropriate.
"Thank you for your patience."
Next up, Joe Biden turned to gun violence. He urged Congress to pass legislation establishing universal background checks and an assault weapons ban.
"Gun violence has become an epidemic in America. The flag at the White House was still flying at half mast for the eight victims in Atlanta when another 10 were killed in Colorado," he said.
More than 200 other people were killed in other shootings in between those two massacres.
"I know how hard it is to make progress on this issue," he continued.
"It's time for Congress to act as well. Look, I don't want to become confrontational, but we need more Senate Republicans to join the majority of Democratic members.
"Don't tell me it can't be done. We did it before, and it worked.
"There's no possible justification for having 100 rounds in a weapon. You think deer are wearing bulletproof vests?"
Mr Biden rejected concerns that stricter gun control would threaten the Second Amendment, which gives Americans the right to bear arms.
"From the very beginning, there were certain guns, weapons that could not be owned by Americans. We're not changing the Constitution. We're being reasonable," he said.
I should note that prominent Republicans, including Senator Ted Cruz, were actively shaking their heads throughout this section of the speech.
Joe Biden alluded to the recent verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. He urged Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
"We've all seen the knee of injustice on the neck of black Americans. Now is our opportunity to make some real progress," he said.
"The vast majority of the people wearing the badge serve their communities honourably. I know them."
There was a pause here as both sides of the aisle applauded.
"My fellow Americans, we have to come together to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the people they serve," Mr Biden continued.
"We need to work together to find a consensus. But let's get it done next month, for the first anniversary of George Floyd's death.
"The country supports this reform, and Congress should act."
In a section dealing with international affairs, Joe Biden signalled his commitment to multilateral action, implicitly rejecting the "America first" attitude of his predecessor.
"No one nation can deal with all the crises of our time," he said, citing the pandemic as one of several examples.
"There's no wall high enough to keep any virus out. And our own vaccine supply, as it grows to meet our needs – and we're meeting them – will become an arsenal for vaccines for other countries. Just as America is an arsenal for democracy around the world."
Another example was climate change.
"It's not our fight alone, it's a global fight," said Mr Biden.
"That's why I rejoined the Paris Climate Accord, because if we (alone) do everything perfectly, it's not going to matter.
"My intent was to make sure that there was a consensus. If we act to save the planet, we can create millions of jobs and economic growth and opportunity for everyone around the world."
Not for the first time in this speech, he explicitly mentioned China's role as a rising power in Asia.
"We welcome the competition. We're not looking for conflict. But I made absolutely clear that we will defend America's interests across the board," he said.
Mr Biden said he had told Chinese President Xi Jinping the US would "stand up to unfair trade practices" and the "theft" of intellectual property, and maintain a military presence in the region.
"America will not back away from our commitments to our alliances, our commitment to human rights and to fundamental freedoms," he said.
"No responsible American president could remain silent while fundamental human rights are being violated."
Joe Biden turned to tax policy as he addressed the cost of his jobs plan, and how he intended to pay for it.
The answer? Higher taxes.
"I will not impose any tax increase on people making less than $400,000. But it's time for corporate America, and the wealthiest Americans, to pay their fair share. Just their fair share," he said.
"Sometimes I have arguments with my friends in the Democratic Party. I think you should be able to become a millionaire or billionaire. But pay your fair share."
Mr Biden said 55 of the biggest corporations had paid nothing in federal tax last year, despite making more than $US40 billion in profit.
"It's not right. We're going to reform corporate taxes so they help pay for the public investments their businesses will benefit from as well," he said.
The President brought up his predecessor's tax cuts, passed four years ago.
"The big tax cut of 2017. Remember, it was supposed to pay for itself. That's how it was sold. Instead, it added $2 trillion to the deficit. It was a huge windfall for corporate America and those at the very top," said Mr Biden.
"It poured billions of dollars into the pockets of CEOs. In fact, the pay gap between CEOs and their workers is now one of the largest in history."
"My fellow Americans, trickle down economics has never worked. And it's time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out."
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