2023 State of the Union Address
| Date | February 7, 2023 |
|---|---|
| Time | 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) |
| Venue | House Chamber, United States Capitol |
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
| Coordinates | 38°53′19.8″N 77°00′32.8″W / 38.888833°N 77.009111°W |
| Type | State of the Union Address |
| Participants | Joe Biden |
| Previous | 2022 State of the Union Address |
The 2023 State of the Union Address will be given by the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 118th United States Congress. It will be Biden's second State of the Union Address, and his third speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session will be the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, accompanied by Kamala Harris, the vice president, in her capacity as the president of the Senate.
It will be the first State of the Union address to a Republican-controlled House of Representatives since 2018.
Notable invitations
- Brandon Tsay: Computer programmer who disarmed the shooter at his family's Lai Lai Ballroom in Alhambra, California during a Lunar New Year's Eve celebration on January 21.
- RowVaughn and Rodney Wells: mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols, a Black driver who was beaten to death by five Memphis Police Department (MPD) officers during a traffic stop on January 7.
- Roya Rahmani: Afghanistan's first female ambassador to the United States who served from December 2018 until July 2021, one month before the complete withdrawal of American troops from her country and the subsequent fall of her country to the Taliban.
- Darrell Woodie: A good samaritan and part time Amazon driver who helped Republican Florida representative Greg Steube by calling for 9-1-1 after he fell down 25 feet while cutting tree limbs in his property in Sarasota on January 18.
- Jeffrey T. Smith: Montgomery County Sheriff of Fort Plain, New York who has served since being elected in 2018. He has been an officer for 34 years and was undersheriff for 12 of those years.
- Jennifer Gray Thompson: CEO of After the Fire USA, a wildfire recovery organization based in Sonoma, California who primarily assists across areas of the Western United States hit by large wildfires.
- Kelley O'Hara: United States women's national soccer team (USWNT) champion and host of The Players' Pod podcast on Just Women's Sports who successfully helped negotiate equal pay for both the men's and women's national soccer teams in 2022.
- Andrew Cortés: Founder of Building Futures, a Providence, Rhode Island pre-apprenticeship training program for construction jobs that works with the Rhode Island Department of Transportation and the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority (RITBA) on infrastructure in the state.
- Michael Isaacson: Executive Director of the Kane County Health Department who worked for more than 22 years, including the duration of COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois.
- Sara Harvey: A sixth grader from Lower Southampton, Pennsylvania who raised more than $20,000 since she was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, an eye cancer at age 4. She will be accompanied by her parents Steve and Toni, as well as her younger brother Sonny.
- Joe Cramer: A farmer from Frankenmuth, Michigan who grows dry beans and previously worked for the Michigan Bean Commission as well as vice president of Star of the West Milling Co.
- Raya Kenney: CEO and Founder of The National Memorial to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front Foundation who inspired Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton to write a bill establishing a memorial honoring the women who worked on the home front during World War II in Washington, D.C. which was subsequently signed by Joe Biden in December 2022.
- Henry Lo: Former mayor of Monterey Park, California and current councilman of the city who was mayor during the Lunar New Year's Eve shooting in his city.
- Pamela Walker: mother of Jayland Walker, a 25 year old Black man who was shot and killed by Akron Police Department officers with 46 bullets following a police chase on June 27, 2022.
- Governor Wes Moore: Maryland’s first Black governor in the state’s 246-year history, and the third African American elected governor in the history of the United States[1]
- Dr. James Baker: A doctor from Lowell, Massachusetts who has been helping patients fight the opioid crisis and advocates for new laws regarding safe opioid prescriptions since he lost his son Max to opioid addiction in 2016.
- Delegate Carl W. Jackson: Delegate from Baltimore County, Maryland who has served since 2019.
- Michael Weinstock: A Democrat who ran against George Santos in New York's 3rd congressional district who was previously a firefighter who served during 9/11 and currently suffers a neurological condition.
- Michael Brown Sr.: The father of 18 year old Michael Brown, a Black teen who was controversially shot by a White Ferguson Police Department officer named Darren Wilson in 2014 after he was accused of robbing a convenience store.
- Sterling Brown: A basketball player in the NBA who was tackled and tased by Milwaukee Police Department officers due to his car straddling two handicapped parking spaces at a Walgreens while on the Milwaukee Bucks in 2018.
- Jordan Zaitz: A Portland Police Bureau officer who has been working for 19 years and is currently fighting the city's growing homeless and drug problem.
- James Gibbs: International Vice President of United Mine Workers of America, one of the largest unions in the United States who is trying to get funding for black lung benefits for coal miners with pneumoconiosis, which is often called "black lung disease".
- Kate Dineen: A Boston, Massachusetts abortion rights activist who had to travel 500 miles from her home city to Bethesda, Maryland to get an abortion after her son suffered a stroke and had a 50% chance of dying and couldn't receive one at Massachusetts General Hospital due to new state laws passed after the overturning of Roe v. Wade that banned abortions after 24 weeks (6 months) in 2022.
- Ellen Mahoney: Widow of 61 year old Kevin Mahoney, who was killed at the King Soopers shooting in Boulder, Colorado in 2021.
- Richard M. Fierro: Army veteran who disarmed the shooter with two other people at the Club Q shooting on the Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2022. His daughter's boyfriend, Raymond Vance, passed away during the attack.
- Chris DeShields: A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania SEPTA bus driver who stopped a carjacking by using his 40 foot bus to block and scare the perpetrator on January 25.
Address
Date
On January 13, 2023, President Joe Biden accepted Speaker Kevin McCarthy's invitation to deliver a State of the Union Address on February 7, 2023.[2][3]
Responses
Republican
Newly inaugurated Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas will give the Republican response to the President's address.[4]
U.S. Representative Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) will deliver the Republican response in Spanish.[5]
References
- ^ "Maryland Gov. Wes Moore to attend President Joe Biden's State of the Union address". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
- ^ Kinery, Emma (January 13, 2023). "Biden to deliver State of the Union address to Congress on Feb. 7". CNBC. Retrieved January 13, 2023.
- ^ Cathey, Libby (January 13, 2023). "Biden to deliver State of the Union address Feb. 7". ABC News. Retrieved January 13, 2023.
- ^ Mizelle, Shawna (February 2, 2023). "Sarah Huckabee Sanders to deliver Republican response to State of the Union address | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ "Congressman Juan Ciscomani to Deliver Republican Address to the Nation in Spanish". www.speaker.gov. February 2, 2023. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
