Trump addresses Congress: What lawmakers want to hear

When President Trump gives his first speech to a joint session of Congress this Tuesday, Republicans will be looking for him to do two things: talk about what he has done, and what they will all ultimately do together.

That’s the message from Republican operatives and lawmakers who are generally happy with the substance of the Trump administration so far, but occasionally mystified by the style. They say the president has lived up to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s description of him as a “man of action” and wish he would talk about it more than past accomplishments, such as beating Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College.