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LUMBERTON — Harvey Godwin, the Lumbee Tribe’s newly-elected chairman, will attend President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address tonight.

Godwin is attending the speech at the U.S. Capitol as the guest of U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, who represents North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District, including Robeson.

In statement, Godwin said he is “elated” to attend the event and says it is “a privilege to represent the Lumbee Tribe on such a prestigious and national stage.”

The State of the Union will air live at 9 p.m.

Washington (CNN) Amid heightened concerns about the threat of terrorism from refugees fleeing Syria and Iraq, the Senate next week will consider whether to suspend a controversial program allowing refugees from those countries into the U.S. that drew scrutiny after the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday a vote on whether to begin debate on the bill will take place next Wednesday. Sixty votes will be needed for it to advance to a vote and the outcome is uncertain, according to leadership aides in both parties.

They’ve tried a number of times, but finally got an Obamacare repeal bill to President Barack Obama’s desk this week.

As expected, Obama vetoed the bill. It was the first time, however, that Congress managed to get an Obamacare repeal to the president’s desk. Members of both houses have discussed a repeal dozens of times and passed bills to do so. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-8, and Virginia Foxx, R-5, both issued statements publicly praising the bill. Hudson also denounced Obama’s veto.

Hours after November’s Paris attacks as suspicion arose that one of the dead terrorists was a Syrian refugee, U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., told his staff it was time to act on a proposal he’d been mulling: to temporarily block some asylum-seekers until more security checks are added to the United States’ national refugee-screening regime.