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It should also please East Belfast MLA Michael Copeland, who famously delivered a filibuster speech on the topic of welfare reform, and was rumoured to have been increasingly unhappy about the prospect of the UUP backing the bill once again.
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Aside from offering the text in a valuably rich informational setting, they do something else: They keep the speech alive for days after its delivery as a topic of national discussion and reflection, and invite citizens to dig in.
FORBES: The annotated State Of The Union(s)
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Barack Obama's speech to the Hampton University Annual Ministers' Conference raised the combustible topic of the burning anger among the nation's poor African-Americans.
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