President Biden will give his State of the Union speech Tuesday night to a nationwide audience.

By chance last night, I channel surfed to C-Span and came upon the President’s remarks at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Tunnel last week.

As a Senator and as Vice President, his trip home to Delaware on Amtrak was delayed by this aging infrastructure,

This is what President Biden said about the people whose homes he saw from the train.

These are jobs for folks I used to think about as I took the train home at night going through the stretches of suburban Maryland, suburban Baltimore, and look out the window, see the flickering lights on people’s tables. Not a joke.

I used to look and them and just wonder what their conversations were at their kitchen tables, their dining room table, what were they thinking about before they put their — just before or after they put their kids to bed, asking questions that are ordinary and profound.

Repealing the death penalty is the most profound thing I will ever do.

Not just as a legislator but as a human being.

Yet it’s the ordinary things that my staff and I do – solving a neighborhood problem, helping someone receive government benefits, or helping a business owner get a fair shake, that more directly affect people’s lives.