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From Fox News: Vice President Kamala Harris declined to preside over a Wednesday joint address to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because she will be in Indiana for an event that was previously scheduled, per an aide.
Harris, who on Monday became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president following President Biden’s campaign suspension, will not be in attendance at the address and will not preside.
With Harris’s absence, the task ordinarily would fall to Senate President pro tempore Patty Murray, D-Wash., but Murray reportedly refused to do so – and will instead be boycotting the address.
The report explains that Netanyahu will be speaking to members of Congress during a joint address on Wednesday after being invited by the bipartisan leaders of both chambers back in May.
An aide to Harris said she will hold a separate meeting with Netanyahu at the White House this week, and claimed that Harris’s absence at the congressional address shouldn’t be considered a change to her stance on Israel.
Kamala Harris to skip Netanyahu’s address to Congress, while top Dem senator boycotts altogether https://t.co/5jLrUTQR6a
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