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The key lines from Biden's address to Congress for the rest of the world
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"Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President." Those were words that no President has ever said before while addressing a joint session of Congress -- and they explain why the image above is what history will remember from Joe Biden's big speech on Wednesday night.
For the first time, the first and second officials in the line of presidential succession -- who traditionally sit behind the commander in chief on such occasions -- were both women: Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi heard Biden declare a new dawn after a nightmare pandemic year and a Trump presidency that threatened to tear the democratic system apart.More Related News