Will the Politburo Let Joe Biden Address Congress?Joel B. Pollak 26 Feb 2021
President Joe Biden has not delivered an address to a joint session of Congress yet.
Traditionally, the annual address — known as the “State of the Union†in every year of a presidency except the first — happens in the first two months of the year.
Occasionally, presidents will deliver written reports, or radio addresses, rather than (or in addition to) the speech to the House and the Senate that Americans have come to expect. But rarely do they happen after February.
The Constitution does not require that the president address Congress, only that he provide a report. Article II, Section 3 provides: “He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.â€
From Thomas Jefferson through William Taft, presidents gave written reports; speeches resumed with President Woodrow Wilson in 1913.
Thus far, we have heard nothing from the Biden White House about what Biden plans to do.
At a press briefing Feb. 23, Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked if there had been “conversations about a joint address to Congress,†and if he would be willing to deliver an address “virtually.â€
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