UPDATED 19:02 PM EST, February 12, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just re-elected, President Barack Obama already is confronting a time crunch. Tuesday's State of the Union address presents a rare and fleeting opportunity to push the second-term agenda that could help determine his legacy — if he can get Congress to act quickly.
The president has maybe a year before electoral politics tends to accelerate the already nasty gridlock between the White House and Republican lawmakers frustrated that Obama won a second term.
