I told ya so…..
There was NEVER any doubt that she would get her old chair and gavel back…
The vote was 219 -192…..
San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi was elected speaker Thursday and will lead Democrats as they take over the House amid a partial government shutdown.
Already the first female House speaker in history, Pelosi now becomes the first woman to hold the job twice and the first person in nearly six decades to regain the post. Only five others have been picked as speaker more than once.
“Our nation is at an historic moment. Two months ago, the American people spoke, and demanded a new dawn,” Pelosi planned to say after accepting the gavel, according to her prepared remarks. She was referring to the midterm election that brought a divided government for the remainder of President Trump’s term.
“I am particularly proud to be the woman speaker of the House of this Congress, which marks 100 years of women winning the right to vote, as we serve with more than 100 women in the House of Representatives – the highest number in history.”
Though Pelosi faced some initial resistance to her resuming the top spot, she effectively sidelined or won over opposition. The vote was 219-192, with most Republicans voting for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield).
For Pelosi, this stint will be markedly different from her first as speaker during the Obama administration. Now there is a divided government, a Republican president and an emboldened progressive wing of her own party who promised voters a new way of operating in Washington.
Pelosi will preside over the most diverse Congress ever assembled, with historic numbers of women, minorities and LGBT members being sworn in Thursday…..
Note….
15 Democrats voted against her….
Final anti-Pelosi Dem list: Brindisi (Biden) Cooper (present) Crow (Duckworth) Cunningham (Bustos) Golden (Bustos) Kind (Lewis) Lamb (Kennedy) McAdams (Murphy) Rice (Abrams) Rose (Duckworth) Schrader (Fudge) Sherrill (Bustos) Slotkin (present) Spanberger (Bustos) Van Drew (“no”)
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President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance Thursday in the White House briefing room, congratulating Speaker Nancy Pelosi on taking back the gavel and predicting they will work together on substantial legislation.
“It’s a very very great achievement and hopefully we’re going to work together and get lots of things done, like infrastructure,” Trump said.
“I think it’ll work out and be a little bit differently than a lot of people are thinking,” he said, referring to forecasts from both parties that the two cannot work together…..
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The roll call for Speaker, reshuffled, with as many details (names, states) as I could remember or dig up easily. (CG would have little difficulty filling in the rest.)
Note that, while hardly a landslide (with, I estimate, 430 or 431 votes that could be counted towards a total, 220 is about 5 votes more than half), Nancy Pelosi’s 220 voters span a vast spectrum from Collin Peterson (DFL) of northern Minnesota, one of the most reliably conservative Democrats in previous Congresses, to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D & Working Families Party) of New York City, one of my two Democratic Socialist comrades in the new House.
Democrats (235)
Nancy PELOSI (Calif.) — 220
Cheri BUSTOS (Ill.) — 4 — Cunningham ; Golden ; Sherrill ; Spanberger
HON. TAMMY DUCKWORTH (U.S. Sen., Ill.) — 2 — Crow ; Rose (NY)
JOSEPH BIDEN — 1 — Brindisi
John LEWIS (Ga) — 1 — Ron Kind (Wis.)
Joseph KENNEDY III (Mass.) — 1 — Conor Lamb (Pa)
Stephanie MURPHY (Fla) — 1 — McAdams
Marcia FUDGE — 1 — Schrader
STACEY ABRAMS — 1 — Rice (NY)
ANSWERED “PRESENT” — 3 — Cooper ; Slotkin ; Van Drew
Total Democrats — 235
Republicans (199)
Kevin MCCARTHY (Calif.) — 192
Jim JORDAN (Ohio) — 5 — Biggs ; Gosar ; Hice (GA) ; Thomas Massie (Ky) ; Perry
Thomas MASSIE (Ky) — 1 — Justin Amash (Mich.)
NOT VOTING — 1 — Walter B. Jones (Ga)
Total Republicans — 199
Ocasio-Cortez got booed when she cast her vote FOR Pelosi as Speaker….
She voted against the House rules changes though…
For the full roll-call (with all the 220 Democrats who voted for Rep. Pelosi and all the 192 Republicans who voted for Rep. McCarthy):
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll002.xml