Tue Nov 3, 12:24 PM

U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) laughs after an address by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to a joint session of congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, November 3, 2009. Merkel's speech is the first address to the U.S. Congress by a German leader since Konrad Adenauer in 1957. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES POLITICS)