Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi Make History At Joe Biden’s First Address to Congress
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- April 29, 2021
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- Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi Make History At Biden's Presidential Address
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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.
Harris, 56, who is also the first Indian-American and also the first Black woman to become America’s Vice President, sat behind on the President’s right side as he delivered his first speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night.
Pelosi, 81, who became the first woman in her role in 2007, sat behind on the President’s left.
When asked about the significance of two women sitting behind the President for the address, Harris replied, “Normal,” to reporters in the Capitol as she led the Senate delegation to the House chamber.
Asked her view on the historic moment, Pelosi told MSNBC on Wednesday, “It’s pretty exciting. And it’s wonderful to make history. It’s about time,” Pelosi said hours before the speech.
Pelosi already knows what it feels like to sit on the rostrum in the House chamber and introduce a President for speeches.
She has sat there for several addresses by Presidents George W Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
The symbolic seating also connotes the first time that women are first and second in the presidential line of succession, a sign of women in power in their respective roles, CNN said.
