The Democratic House members from California Get’s another stamp of approval from her members…
That even as progressive had talked about different leadership and Democrats took loses in November….
But?
Pelosi HAS steered her party to standup against President Trump for the last 2 years and they had a great 2018 Midterm Wave that is gone now….
House Democrats rallied Sunday to elect Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as Speaker in the 117th Congress, overcoming opposition from a handful of restive moderates urging new leadership to grant Pelosi her fourth term at the top of the chamber.
The 216-209 vote was more dramatic than anyone would have guessed just two months ago, when Democrats went into the elections predicting big gains to pad their House majority in 2021. Instead, they lost at least 13 seats, trimming their numbers to a mere 222 seats — the smallest House majority in decades — and complicating Pelosi’s effort to keep the Speaker’s gavel for another two-year term.
She has vowed it will be her last.
A total of five Democrats declined to support Pelosi on the chamber floor, urging a changing of the guard after 18 years under Pelosi’s reign — a sharp decline from the 15 defections she encountered in 2019….
image…USA Today.Com
I’m confused about the 216-209 total (+5 voting “present” or for others), unless losing Democratic candidates also participated.
There are now 221 Democrats who can vote on House business, plus 4 or 5 Democratic delegates from D.C., P.R., overseas possessions & maybe the Cherokee Nation.
Cancel that:
I was confusing the Speaker vote within the Democratic caucus (also won again by Pelosi) with that in the House of Representatives as a whole, where Republicans are allowed to vote.
I doubt that delegates and the resident commissioner are allowed to vote for Speaker within the House, as opposed to within party caucuses.
The 209 would presumably for Kevin McCarthy.
There are 435 voting members of the House. P 221 + McC 209 + neither 5 = 435.