周三晚上，两位女性将首次坐在总统身后，在国会联席会议上发表讲话。

当数百万美国人在电视和电脑屏幕上观看时，副总统卡玛拉•哈里斯将出现在左边，众议院议长南希·佩洛西将出现在右边，拜登将向立法者和全国发表讲话，强调他们作为女性在总统继任过程中的第一和第二角色。

佩洛西周三告诉美国广播公司新闻记者雷切尔·斯科特，她为正在创造的历史以及它将向下一代传递的信息感到骄傲。

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副总统卡玛拉•哈里斯和众议院议长南希·佩洛西在一个合成文件图像中。

“非常激动人心，能和美国副总统卡玛拉•哈里斯在一起真是太激动人心了。不只是一个女人——而是一个非裔美国女人，一个亚裔美国女人。一个少数民族妇女，”佩洛西对斯科特说。

“这是历史性的，但我们可以一直向前看，这就是我们的角色，”佩洛西继续说道。

“我告诉来到这里的孩子，看到所有这些雕像。重要的是，我们要纪念和表彰那些为我们的国家做出贡献的人，但他们希望我们向前看。”

佩洛西还与斯科特一起思考了14年前乔治·布什总统作为第一位女众议院议长对她的欢迎。

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2021年1月21日，众议院议长南希·佩洛西在华盛顿举行每周新闻发布会。

他以这样的话开始了他的演讲:“今晚，作为第一位以这样的话开始国情咨文的总统，我拥有至高的特权和独特的荣誉:议长女士。”

历史学家、林登·贝恩斯·约翰逊基金会首席执行官、美国广播公司新闻撰稿人马克·厄普代洛夫说，哈里斯和佩洛西一起支持拜登的景象将表明美国政治处于“转折点”

“你不仅看到了一个白人男子，一个白人女子和一个黑人女子，你还看到了美国正在发生变化的反映，”厄普代洛夫说。“我确实认为这是一个象征性的转变，不仅是我们自身和我们政治的转变，也是我们国家人口结构转变的反映。”

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副总统卡玛拉•哈里斯在与危地马拉总统亚历杭德的虚拟会议前发表讲话

罗格斯大学美国妇女与政治中心主任黛比·沃尔什(Debbie Walsh)表示，佩洛西已经打破了自己的玻璃天花板，她在职业生涯中花了很多时间“赋予其他女性权力”，但仍在等待联席会议上更大的第一次。

沃尔什说:“不过，我敢肯定，她仍在等着看到一位女性成为美国总统的那一刻。”。

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

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.

“It is historic but we can always just be looking forward, that’s what our role is,” Pelosi continued.

"I tell kids who come here, see all these statues. It’s important that we memorialize and honor those who gave us the country we have but they would want us to be looking forward."

Pelosi also reflected with Scott on the welcome President George Bush gave her as the first female House Speaker 14 years ago.

He began that speech with these words: "And tonight I have the high privilege and distinct honor of my own as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker."

Historian Mark Updegrove, CEO of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation and an ABC News contributor, said the sight of Harris and Pelosi together behind Biden will shows American politics at a "turning point."

"Not only are you seeing a white man, and a white woman and a black woman you're also seeing a reflection of changing America," Updegrove said."I do think that this is emblematic, not only of a shift in our and our politics but a shift in a reflection of the shift in our demographics as a nation."

Debbie Walsh, the director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, said that Pelosi, who has shattered glass ceilings of her own, has spent a lot of her career "empowering other women," but is still waiting for an even bigger first at a joint session.

"I'm sure, though, she is still waiting to see that moment when a woman is president of the United States," Walsh said.