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Harris to become first woman with presidential power while Biden is under anesthesia for routine colonoscopy
哈里斯将成为首位拥有总统权力的女性，期间拜登正在接受例行结肠镜检查的麻醉中
President Joe Biden on Friday will temporarily transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris while he is under anesthesia for a routine colonoscopy, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. The nation's first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president will break yet another barrier when she temporarily steps into the acting role. Harris will work from her office in the West Wing while Biden is under anesthesia, Psaki said in a statement.
白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基告诉记者，总统乔·拜登周五将接受例行结肠镜检查，在他麻醉期间，会暂时移交权力给副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯。这个国家的第一位女性、第一位黑人和第一位南亚裔副总统，在暂时担任代理职务时将打破迄今为止另一个障碍。普萨基在一份声明中说，当拜登处于麻醉状态时，哈里斯将在她位于白宫西翼的办公室工作。
Biden, who turns 79 on Saturday, arrived Friday morning at Walter Reed Medical Center to undergo his first routine annual physical since taking office. It's routine for a vice president to assume presidential powers while the president undergoes a medical procedure that requires anesthesia. Then-Vice President Dick Cheney did so on multiple occasions when then-President George W. Bush underwent routine colonoscopies.
拜登将于本周六迎来79岁生日。他于周五上午抵达沃尔特·里德医疗中心，接受上任以来的首次例行年度体检。在总统接受需要麻醉的医疗程序时，副总统行使总统权力是惯例。当时的副总统迪克·切尼在当时的总统乔治·w·布什接受常规结肠镜检查时也多次这样做。
Section 3 of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution says the President can send a letter to the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate declaring declaring they are "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President."
美国宪法第25条修正案第3款规定，总统可以致函众议院议长和参议院临时议长，宣布他们“不能履行其职务的权力和职责，直到向他们转交相反的书面声明之前，这些权力和职责应由副总统作为代理总统履行。”
