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President Joe Biden with Senate President (U.S. vice president) Kamala Harris and House Speaker Pelosi during the 2021 joint session address. It marked the first time that a woman had occupied the Senate President chair. As this speech occurred early during Biden's first year, it is not considered an official State of the Union.
At some time during the first two months of each session, the president customarily delivers the State of the Union address, a speech in which an assessment is made of the state of the country, and the president's legislative agenda is outlined. The speech is modeled on the Speech from the Throne, given by the British monarch.
Lyndon Johnson being sworn in as next president, two hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination. A newly elected or re-elected president of the United States begins his four-year term of office at noon on the twentieth day of January following the election, and, by tradition, takes the oath of office during an inauguration on that date; prior to 1937 the president's term of office ...
The annual speech is a custom re-established by President Woodrow Wilson. Joint sessions of the United States Congress occur on special occasions that require a concurrent resolution from both House and Senate. These sessions include the counting of electoral votes following a Presidential election and the President's State of the Union address ...
The president ensures the laws are faithfully executed and may grant reprieves and pardons with the exception of Congressional impeachment. The president reports to Congress on the State of the Union, and by the Recommendation Clause, recommends "necessary and expedient" national measures. The president may convene and adjourn Congress under ...
President Trump will on his first day in office Monday issue an order defining a person's sex as "male or female" — requiring government agencies to use the "immutable" designation on forms and ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the White House on July 2, 1964, as Martin Luther King Jr. and others look on. The president's most significant legislative power derives from the Presentment Clause, which gives the president the power to veto any bill passed by Congress.
President Claudia Sheinbaum proposed using the 17th-century name in response to President-elect Donald Trump's comment he'd try to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.