Both of those forms seem to be problematic, I got well over 60 bounces back all like this:
A message that you sent contained one or more recipient addresses that were
incorrectly constructed:
john.unger@wvsenate.gov: malformed address: ;john.unger@wvsenate.gov may not follow 

This address has been ignored. There were no other addresses in your
message, and so no attempt at delivery was possible.
------ This is a copy of your message, including all the headers. ------
To: john.unger@wvsenate.gov
Gotta get the garbage characters out in front of the email addresses.