100th to Current Congresses
(January 3, 1987 to Present)
| Date | Type | Occasion, topic, or location | Name and position of dignitary
(Where Applicable) |
|---|---|---|---|
100th Congress (1987–1989) | |||
| Jan. 27, 1987 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Ronald Reagan. |
| Nov. 10, 1987 | Joint Meeting | Address | Chaim Herzog, President of Israel. |
| Jan. 25, 1988 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Ronald Reagan. |
| Apr. 27, 1988 | Joint Meeting | Address | Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada. |
| June 23, 1988 | Joint Meeting | Address | Robert Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia. |
101st Congress (1989–1991) | |||
| Jan. 4, 1989 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
| Jan. 20, 1989 | Inauguration | West Front | President George Bush; Vice President Dan Quayle. |
| Feb. 9, 1989 | Joint Session | Building a Better America | President George Bush. |
| Mar. 2, 1989 | Joint Meeting | Bicentennial of the 1st Congress | Representative Lindy Boggs; President Pro Tempore Robert C. Byrd; Speaker James C. Wright; Senator George J. Mitchell; Representative Thomas S. Foley; Representative Robert H. Michel; Howard Nemerov, Poet Laureate of the United States; Senator Robert J. Dole; David McCullough, historian; Anthony M. Frank, Postmaster General; former Senator Nicholas F. Brady, Secretary of the Treasury. |
| June 7, 1989 | Joint Meeting | Address | Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan. |
| Oct. 4, 1989 | Joint Meeting | Address | Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of Mexico. |
| Oct. 18, 1989 | Joint Meeting | Address | Roh Tae Woo, President of the Republic of Korea. |
| Nov. 15, 1989 | Joint Meeting | Address | Lech Walesa, chairman of Solidarnosc labor union, Poland. |
| Jan. 31, 1990 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President George Bush. |
| Feb. 21, 1990 | Joint Meeting | Address | Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia. |
| Mar. 7, 1990 | Joint Meeting | Address | Giulio Andreotti, President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. |
| Mar. 27, 1990 | Joint Meeting |
Centennial of birth of Dwight D. Eisenhower | Senator Robert Dole; Walter Cronkite, television journalist; Winston S. Churchill, member of British Parliament and grandson of Prime Minister Churchill; Clark M. Clifford, former Secretary of Defense; James D. Robinson III, chairman of Eisenhower Centennial Foundation; Arnold Palmer, professional golfer; John S. D. Eisenhower, former Ambassador to Belgium and son of President Eisenhower; Representatives Beverly Byron, William F. Goodling, and Pat Roberts. |
| June 26, 1990 | Joint Meeting | Address | Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress, South Africa. |
| Sept. 11, 1990 | Joint Session | Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq | President George Bush. |
102nd Congress (1991–1993) | |||
| Jan. 29, 1991 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President George Bush. |
| Mar. 6, 1991 | Joint Session | Conclusion of Persian Gulf War | President George Bush. |
| Apr. 16, 1991 | Joint Meeting | Address | Violeta B. de Chamorro, President of Nicaragua. |
| May 16, 1991 | Joint Meeting | Address | Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom; joint meeting also attended by Prince Philip. |
| Nov. 14, 1991 | Joint Meeting | Address | Carlos Saul Menem, President of Argentina. |
| Jan. 28, 1992 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President George Bush. |
| Apr. 30, 1992 | Joint Meeting | Address | Richard von Weizsacker, President of Germany. |
| June 17, 1992 | Joint Meeting | Address | Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia. |
103rd Congress (1993–1995) | |||
| Jan. 6, 1993 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
| Jan. 20, 1993 | Inauguration | West Front | President William J. Clinton; Vice President Albert Gore. |
| Feb. 17, 1993 | Joint Session | Economic Address30 | President William J. Clinton. |
| Sept. 22, 1993 | Joint Session | Health care reform | President William J. Clinton. |
| Jan. 25, 1994 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President William J. Clinton. |
| May 18, 1994 | Joint Meeting | Address | Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister of India. |
| July 26, 1994 | Joint Meeting | Addresses | Hussein I, King of Jordan; Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel. |
| Oct. 6, 1994 | Joint Meeting | Address | Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa. |
104th Congress (1995–1997) | |||
| Jan. 24, 1995 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President William J. Clinton. |
| July 26, 1995 | Joint Meeting | Address | Kim Yong-sam, President of South Korea.31 |
| Oct. 11, 1995 | Joint Meeting | Close of the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of World War II | Speaker Newt Gingrich; Vice President Albert Gore; President Pro Tempore Strom Thurmond; Representatives Henry J. Hyde and G. V. "Sonny" Montgomery; Senators Daniel K. Inouye and Robert Dole; former Representative Robert H. Michel; General Louis H. Wilson (ret.), former Commandant of the Marine Corps. |
| Dec. 12, 1995 | Joint Meeting | Address | Shimon Peres, Prime Minister of Israel. |
| Jan. 23, 1996 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President William J. Clinton. |
| Feb. 1, 1996 | Joint Meeting | Address | Jacques Chirac, President of France. |
| July 10, 1996 | Joint Meeting | Address |
Benyamin Netanyahu,
Prime Minister of Israel. |
| Sept. 11, 1996 | Joint Meeting | Address |
John Bruton,
Prime Minister of Ireland. |
105th Congress (1997–1999) | |||
| Jan. 9, 1997 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
| Jan. 20, 1997 | Inauguration | West Front | President William J. Clinton, Vice President Albert Gore. |
| Feb. 4, 1997 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address32 | President William J. Clinton. |
| Feb. 27, 1997 | Joint Meeting | Address | Edurado Frei, President of Chile. |
| Jan. 27, 1998 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President William J. Clinton. |
| June 10, 1998 | Joint Meeting | Address |
Kim Dae-jung, President of the Republic of Korea. |
| July 15, 1998 | Joint Meeting |
Address |
H.E. Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania. |
106th Congress (1999–2001) | |||
| Jan. 19, 1999 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President William J. Clinton. |
| Jan. 27, 2000 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President William J. Clinton. |
| Sept. 14, 2000 | Joint Meeting | Address |
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India. |
107th Congress (2001–2003) | |||
| Jan. 6, 2001 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
| Jan. 20, 2001 | Inauguration | West Front | President George W. Bush; Vice President Richard B. Cheney. |
| Feb. 27, 2001 | Joint Session | Budget Message 33 | President George W. Bush. |
| Sept. 6, 2001 | Joint Meeting | Address | Vicente Fox, President of Mexico. |
| Sept. 20, 2001 | Joint Session | War on Terrorism | President George W. Bush. |
| Jan. 29, 2002 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President George W. Bush. |
| June 12, 2002 | Joint Meeting | Address | John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia. |
108th Congress (2003–2005) | |||
| Jan. 28, 2003 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President George W. Bush. |
| July 17, 2003 | Joint Meeting | Address | Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
| Jan. 20, 2004 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President George W. Bush. |
| Feb. 4, 2004 | Joint Meeting | Address | Jose Maria Aznar, President of the Government of Spain. |
| June 15, 2004 | Joint Meeting | Address | Hamid Karzai, President of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan |
| Sept. 23, 2004 | Joint Meeting | Address | Ayad Allawi, Interim Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq |
109th Congress (2005–2007) | |||
| Jan. 6, 2005 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
| Jan. 20, 2005 | Inauguration | West Front | President George W. Bush; Vice President Richard B. Cheney |
| Feb. 2, 2005 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President George W. Bush |
| April 6, 2005 | Joint Meeting | Address | Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine |
| July 19, 2005 | Joint Meeting | Address | Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India |
| Jan. 31, 2006 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President George W. Bush |
| March 1, 2006 | Joint Meeting | Address | Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Italy |
| March 15, 2006 | Joint Meeting | Address | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia |
| May 24, 2006 | Joint Meeting | Address | Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of Israel |
| June 7, 2006 | Joint Meeting | Address | Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia |
| July 26, 2006 | Joint Meeting | Address | Dr. Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq |
110th Congress (2007–2009) | |||
| Jan. 23, 2007 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President George W. Bush |
| March 7, 2007 | Joint Meeting | Address | King Abdullah II Bin Al Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan |
| Nov. 7, 2007 | Joint Meeting | Address | Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France |
| Jan. 28, 2008 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President George W. Bush |
| April 30, 2008 | Joint Meeting | Address | Bertie Ahern, Prime Minister of Ireland |
111th Congress (2009–2011) | |||
| Jan. 8, 2009 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
| Jan. 20, 2009 | Inauguration | West Front |
President Barack H. Obama;
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
| Feb. 24, 2009 | Joint Session | Address | President Barack H. Obama |
| March 4, 2009 | Joint Meeting | Address | Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Sept. 8, 2009 | Joint Session | Health Care Reform | President Barack H. Obama |
| Nov. 3, 2009 | Joint Meeting | Address | Dr. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| Jan. 27, 2010 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Barack H. Obama |
| May 20, 2010 | Joint Meeting | Address | Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, President of the United Mexican States |
112th Congress (2011–2013) | |||
| Jan. 25, 2011 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Barack H. Obama |
| March 9, 2011 | Joint Meeting | Address | Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia |
| May 24, 2011 | Joint Meeting | Address | Binyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel |
| Sept. 8, 2011 | Joint Session | American Jobs Act | President Barack H. Obama |
| Oct. 13, 2011 | Joint Meeting | Address | Lee Myung-bak, President of the Republic of Korea |
| Jan. 24, 2012 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Barack H. Obama |
113th Congress (2013–2015) | |||
| Jan. 4, 2013 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
| Jan. 21, 2013 | Inauguration | West Front |
President Barack H. Obama; Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
| Feb. 12, 2013 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Barack H. Obama |
| May 8, 2013 | Joint Meeting | Address | Park Geun-hye, President of the Republic of Korea |
| Jan. 28, 2014 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Barack H. Obama |
| Sept. 18, 2014 | Joint Meeting | Address | Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine |
114th Congress (2015–2017) | |||
| Jan. 20, 2015 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Barack H. Obama |
| Mar. 3, 2015 | Joint Meeting | Address | Binyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel |
| Mar. 25, 2015 | Joint Meeting | Address | Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |
| April 29, 2015 | Joint Meeting | Address | Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan |
| Sept. 24, 2015 | Joint Meeting | Address | Pope Francis of the Holy See |
| Jan. 12, 2016 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Barack H. Obama |
| June 8, 2016 | Joint Meeting | Address | Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India |
115th Congress (2017–2019) | |||
| Jan. 6, 2017 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
| Jan. 20, 2017 | Inauguration | West Front | President Donald J. Trump; Vice President Mike Pence |
| Feb. 28, 2017 | Joint Session | Address | President Donald J. Trump |
| Jan. 30, 2018 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Donald J. Trump |
| April 25, 2018 | Joint Meeting | Address | Emmanuel Macron, President of France |
116th Congress (2019–2021) | |||
| Feb. 5, 2019 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Donald J. Trump |
| April 3, 2019 | Joint Meeting | Address | Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| Feb. 4, 2020 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Donald J. Trump |
117th Congress (2021–2023) | |||
| Jan. 6, 2021 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes34 | N.A. |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Inauguration | West Front | President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; Vice President Kamala D. Harris |
| April 28, 2021 | Joint Session | Address | President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
| March 1, 2022 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
| May 17, 2022 | Joint Meeting | Address | Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, Greece |
| December 21, 2022 | Joint Meeting | Address | Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine |
118th Congress (2023–2025) | |||
| February 7, 2023 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
| April 27, 2023 | Joint Meeting | Address | Yoon Suk Yeol, President of the Republic of Korea |
| June 22, 2023 | Joint Meeting | Address | Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India |
| July 19, 2023 | Joint Meeting | Address | Isaac Herzog, President of Israel |
| March 7, 2024 | Joint Session | State of the Union Address | President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
| April 11, 2024 | Joint Meeting | Address | Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan |
| July 24, 2024 | Joint Meeting | Address | Binyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel |
119th Congress (2025–2027) | |||
| Jan. 6, 2025 | Joint Session | Counting electoral votes | N.A. |
| Jan. 20, 2025 | Inauguration | Rotunda35 | President Donald J. Trump; Vice President James David (J.D.) Vance |
| March 4, 2025 | Joint Session | Address | President Donald J. Trump |
Footnotes
30This speech was mislabeled in many sources as a State of the Union Address.
31President Kim Yong-sam was in Washington for the dedication of the Korean Veterans' Memorial, held the day after this joint meeting.
32This was the first State of the Union Address carried live on the Internet.
33This speech was mislabeled in many sources as a State of the Union Address.
34Due to a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, the counting of the Electoral College votes was interrupted at 2:19 PM and resumed at 9:02 PM. As a result, the legislative day of January 6, 2021, lasted until a formal adjournment at 3:48 AM on January 7, 2021.
35The ceremony was moved inside because of extremely cold weather.