The 1995 State of the Union Address was given by the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, on Tuesday, January 24, 1995, at 9 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 104th United States Congress. It was Clinton's second State of the Union Address and his third speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, accompanied by Al Gore, the Vice President of the United States, in his capacity as President of the Senate.