Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., are wearing keffiyehs, traditional Palestinian scarves, at the address, as the progressive wing of the Democratic Party continues to call for a cease-fire in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war.

Shortly after entering the House chamber to deliver his speech, Biden, as he was greeting various lawmakers, came face to face with Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene -- a vocal critic who interrupted his previous address.

"Say her name," Greene appeared to say to Biden, referring to Laken Riley, a Georgia college student who was killed last month.

The suspect in that case is a migrant who is in the country illegally, officials have said, which conservatives have seized on to attack Biden's border policies.

The president didn't visibly react to Greene during their brief interaction.

- ABC News' Adam Carlson

The parents of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journalist reporter imprisoned by Russia on charges he denies, are at the State of the Union as guests of House Speaker Mike Johnson, according to the Journal.

“We are grateful to Speaker Johnson for inviting us to attend the State of the Union and for providing the opportunity to highlight Evan’s wrongful detention,” Ella Milman and Mikhail Gershkovich said in a statement published by the newspaper.

“We’re also grateful to President Biden for his continued work on Evan’s behalf. Evan is an American, and he was doing his job as a journalist. He is most importantly a beloved son and brother, and we want him home," they said.

-ABC News' Patrick Reevell

Biden has arrived to the House chamber to deliver his State of the Union.

The president is making his way through a sea of lawmakers and guests on the way to the podium to speak.

It is a potentially pivotal evening for Biden in the early stages of his 2024 general election fight -- set to be against Trump.

Ahead of his address, he said he was "feeling good" and pumped his fists in the air as he departed the White House. Pro-Palestinian protesters near the Capitol didn't interfere with the president's motorcade on the short drive across Washington.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez

I’m especially interested in what the president has to say about abortion rights. It has been a winning issue for Democrats, and a losing one for Republicans, since the Supreme Court upended the status quo and reversed Roe v. Wade's protections in June 2022. In fact, polling shows that Americans have become even more supportive of abortion rights since the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was issued.

Democrats will be eager to campaign on expanding and protecting reproductive health this fall, and their voters rank the issue highly, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

In that same poll, 55% of voters said they want to see the federal government protect abortion access across the country, and one in eight voters said it was the most important factor determining their vote.

On the opposite side, many anti-abortion groups want their candidates to support a national ban, something that’s very unpopular with the public as a whole.

-Monica Potts, 538