Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, delivered a State of the Union address on January 27, 2000, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. It was Clinton's seventh and final State of the Union Address and his eighth and final speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Dennis Hastert, accompanied by Al Gore, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.