Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi make history at US President Joe Biden s first address to Congress
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Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi make history at US President Joe Biden s first address to Congress
PTI / Apr 29, 2021, 09:25 IST
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Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., stand and applaud as President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, April 28, 2021 (AP)
WASHINGTON: Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have made history as they shared the stage during President Joe Biden s first joint session to Congress, marking the first time that two women sat behind a US President during an address to Congress.
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Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made history as the first two women to sit behind a president during an address to Congress.
Harris, who was the first Black American, South Asian American and woman to be Vice President, entered the House chamber on Wednesday to applause before quickly taking the hand of the waiting Pelosi and then elbow-bumping her.
House Speaker Pelosi is no stranger to breaking the glass ceiling, becoming in 2007 the first woman to sit on the same dais as a president, when former President George W. Bush addressed Congress.
President Joseph Biden speaks to a joint session of Congress April 28. Seated behind him are Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (NCR screenshot).
President Joe Biden delivered his first address to Congress last night. It is hard to know how many people watched it, or if they watched it, if they did so free of partisan commentary. Biden remembers the time when a State of the Union address was an opportunity for the president to address the nation as well as Congress, but now everything comes through Instagram and Twitter, and filtered through various ideological lenses.
Like everything else this year, the setting was abnormal. The chamber of the House of Representatives normally can hold all 435 members of the House, the 100 senators, the members of the Cabinet, some Supreme Court justices and diplomats. The gallery would normally be packed with guests. This year, due to the pandemic, only 200 people attended.