In an interview with FBN's Maria Bartiromo on Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul suggested that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuses to host the 2019 State of the Union address, the Senate should step up and host it instead. "I think it is an affront to the president and to the office of the presidency, really, for [Pelosi] to have the gall to say, 'No State Of The Union.' I can't imagine they'll try to follow through with it, but if they do, my suggestion to Sen. McConnell would be to invite [Trump] to the Senate," Paul said. "That would defy protocol, but [Pelosi] is already defying protocol," Paul continued. "We've never had a State of the Union canceled, and so I think it is pretty galling and very partisan of her to want to do that." "So we'll see if it stands, and if it stands I'd say he should be invited to speak in the Senate." "There are not as many seats," he added. "If you had to, you could open the gallery and have House members, some standing and some in the gallery. You could probably accommodate everyone on the Senate side." "But Congress is the peoples' house, it is not Nancy Pelosi's house, so I don't really think that one party should get to decide, oh, because we don't like the president of the opposite party we're not going to have it."