In 1st, two women will sit behind a president for a speech to Congress

Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will sit behind Biden, reflecting the first time that two women are in the line of presidential succession.

For the first time Wednesday night, two women will be seated behind a president making an address to a joint session of Congress. As millions of Americans watch on TV and computer screens, Vice President Kamala Harris will be visible to the left and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the right as Biden speaks to lawmakers and the nation, highlighting their roles as women now first and second in the line of presidential succession. Pelosi told ABC News Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott on Wednesday that she’s proud of the history being made and the message it will send to the next generation. “It’s very exciting, it’s so exciting to be up there with Kamala Harris — the Vice President of the United States. Not just a woman — but an African American woman, an Asian American woman. A minority woman,” Pelosi said to Scott.