What procedures are currently followed when the President delivers the message?
A House concurrent resolution, agreed to by both chambers, sets aside a certain date and time for a joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate “for receiving such communication as the President of the United States shall be pleased to make to them.” At the appointed time, the Senators cross the Capitol to the House chamber, where seats are reserved for them; the Speaker and the Vice President (in his capacity as President of the Senate) occupy seats at the dais, and the Speaker presides. Each house then appoints a committee whose members escort the President to the chamber, where his presence is announced by the Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives. The Speaker then introduces the President, who delivers his address. Customarily, one member of the Presidents Cabinet does not attend, in order to provide continuity in the line of succession in the event a catastrophe kills or disables the President, the Vice President, and other succeeding officers gathered in the
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