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Joe Biden will introduce Lady Gaga at Oscars

Jayme Deerwester, and Gregory Korte
USA TODAY

The Obama administration is making an Oscar comeback this weekend.

The vice president's appearance is tied to the It's On Us campaign against sexual violence.

Vice President Joe Biden will appear as a presenter at Sunday's ceremony in Los Angeles, three years after first lady Michelle Obama announced the best-picture winner via satellite.

He will introduce Lady Gaga's performance of her original song nominee 'Til It Happens to You from The Hunting Ground, a documentary about campus sexual assault.

“Vice President Biden is going to the Academy Awards for primarily one reason, which is to raise awareness of an issue on which he is quite passionate, which is stopping campus sexual assault,” said White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. “The vice president has done a lot of important work to lead the effort to end violence against women and end campus sexual assault. This is an opportunity for him to stand at a rather high-profile podium, when millions of people across the country and across the world will be watching.”

He said Biden’s remarks would be “relatively brief,” and that he was not expected to address the controversy over the lack of diversity in Oscar nominations.

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