The State Dining Room of the White House was where President Joe Biden spoke on January 21, 2021.
President Joe Biden will give his first State of the Union address to Congress on March 1.
Congress shifted the opening of its sessions to January and Biden was scheduled to give the State of the Union address.
Presidents are required to give the Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to theirConsideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. Biden spoke to a joint session of Congress after he became president, but his speech is not considered a State of the Union address until the president's second year in office.
The State of the Union addresses are delivered by the president. The Senate, presidential Cabinet members and Supreme Court justices are all present.
Pelosi invited Biden to address Congress as the White House tries to contain staggering Covid-19 infections fueled by the omicron variant, curb inflation and sustain an economic recovery that saw the unemployment rate fall to 3.9% in December. Congressional Democrats will try to pass his bill in the coming weeks, which would invest in social programs and climate policy.
Thanks for your vision and patriotism which have helped America out of crisis and into an era of progress, as we recover from the Pandemic and build back better. Biden wrote Pelosi.
The past year has been historic, with the life-saving American Rescue Plan, once-in-a-century Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the truly transformational Build Back Better Act!
Pelosi invited you to address a Joint Session of Congress on March 1 to share your vision of the State of the Union.
CNBC reached out to the White House to inquire about the invitation.
George Washington and John Adams were the first two presidents to give the State of the Union. The third president, Thomas Jefferson, stopped the practice and gave his evaluation in writing.
The practice of giving the address in person to Congress was resumed by Wilson in 1913.
Jimmy Carter was the last president to deliver a State of the Union message. He did it in 1981 before Reagan took office.
