Vice President Kamala Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are expected to attend the speech, leaving Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as next in line of presidential succession in the event of a U.S. Capitol disaster.
First Lady Jill Biden held a virtual reception Wednesday afternoon with several guests who will view tonight s event remotely, according to a press release from The White House. The invitees were: Javier Quiroz Castro, a nurse and DACA recipient; Maria-Isabel Ballivian, executive director of Annandale Christian Community For Action Child Development Center; Tatiana Washington, gun violence prevention advocate and organizer; Theron Rutyna, IT director for the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; and Stella Keating, the first transgender teenager to testify before the U.S. Senate.
There s no designated survivor for Biden s first speech to Congress. Here s why. Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY
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The only place you ll find a designated survivor on Wednesday the night of President Joe Biden s first address to Congress is on Netflix.
“There does not need to be a designated survivor because the Cabinet will be watching from their offices or home, but they will not be joining him for the speech,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.
Usually when a president addresses Congress, all the Cabinet members are in attendance except for one designee – the “designated survivor.” That person is a Cabinet official appointed to go to a secure location in case a catastrophic event kills the president and other Cabinet members. With attendance at the U.S. Capitol cut in half by the pandemic, the White House did not choose such a person for the address.
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Federal Analysis Finds Insecticide Malathion Imperils Continued Existence of 78 Endangered Plants, Animals
Using Trump-era Guidelines, ‘Jeopardy’ Calls Reduced from 1,284 to 78 Species
WASHINGTON A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service analysis released today has found that the commonly used insecticide malathion jeopardizes the continued existence of 78 endangered plants and animals.
The analysis is one of most extreme findings of harm ever published by the Service. Yet it represents a dramatic departure from the findings of an Obama administration analysis scrapped by the Trump administration that found malathion jeopardized 1,284 endangered plants and animals.
Today’s analysis deploys former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s methods to discount the harms of the pesticide by unlawfully relying on incomplete, unreliable estimates of its use rather than looking more broadly at the overall effects of i
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New Mexico Health Secretary, Experts Push Vaccine Message -
By Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press
New Mexico Health Secretary Dr. Tracie Collins says the state has tapped into a network of community health providers, faith leaders and other local organizers to share information as officials look to boost the number of people who are vaccinated.
Collins testified Thursday before a congressional subcommittee on the challenges of combating misinformation surrounding the coronavirus pandemic and the vaccination campaign.
She said New Mexico has been a leader in distribution. She said the early adoption of a registration site, regular news conferences by top state officials and town halls and social media messaging in multiple languages have resulted in the state s high vaccination rates.