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Rhode Island's Jack Reed wasn't hard to find during last night's State of the Union address.

Though he was sitting among a sea of Democratic senators on the right side of the House chamber, he was positioned a couple seats away from high-profile presidential candidate Sen. Barak Obama of Illinois. And just behind Obama was another high-profile presidential candidate, Sen. Hillary Clinton, of New York.

Rhode Island's freshman senator Sheldon Whitehouse sat immediately to Reed's right, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on Reed's left, just in front of Obama.

Was the seating arrangement coordinated?

Reed spokesman Chip Unruh said it was not. There are no reserved signs used to save seats, he said. Nor are staff members allowed to be on the House floor ahead of time to ensure their bosses get prime real estate for the president's annual address.

"There's no specific assigned seating," spokesman Chip Unruh said. "It's just kind of what time you get there, who you walk in next to."

Reed confirmed Unruh's take.

“According to custom, the Senate assembled in the [Senate] chamber," Reed said in a statement provided by Unruh. "Sheldon and I were speaking together and joined the procession to the House and sat next to each other.”

-- projo.com staff writer Steve Peoples

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