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Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by Kamala Harris, the vice president in her capacity as the president of the Senate—the first time two women and two Californians presided over an address to Congress, seated on the rostrum behind the president. [2]
The sitting vice president is expected to preside, but in several cases the president pro tempore of the Senate has chaired the proceedings instead. The vice president and the speaker of the House sit at the podium, with the vice president in the seat of the speaker of the House. Senate pages bring in the two mahogany boxes containing each ...
Full video of the speech as published by the White House View from the Executive Gallery of the House Chamber. Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, addressed a joint session of the United States Congress on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. It was his first public address before a joint session.
JD Vance was sworn in as the 50th vice president of the United States during Monday's intimate inauguration ceremony inside the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh ...
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on March 7. The election has already been filled with eye-popping and historically unusual events.
President Lyndon B. Johnson in U.S. Congress in 1963 with Speaker of the House John W. McCormack (left), and Senate President pro tempore Carl T. Hayden (right). At the beginning of each two-year Congress, the House of Representatives elects a speaker. The speaker does not normally preside over debates, but is, rather, the leader of the ...
The House of Representatives has no formal role in either the ratification of treaties or the appointment of federal officials, other than filling vacancies in the office of vice-president; a vote in each House is required to confirm a president's nomination for vice-president if a vacancy happens. [11]
In the instance when the presidency and both Houses of Congress are controlled by one party, the speaker normally takes a low profile and defers to the president. For that situation the House minority leader can play the role of a de facto "leader of the opposition", often more so than the Senate minority leader, due to the more partisan nature ...