The 117th Congress begins today - maybe

[George K]

Pelosi has 213 of the 217 she needs.

[Mik]

who voted present and other?

[George K]

Pelosi elected with (ahem) 217 votes.

[Axtremus]

Congratulations to Speaker Pelosi.

[Mik]

But can she govern? I think she's going to have the same problems Ryan had, a party beset by fringes.

[George K]

@mik said in The 117th Congress begins today - maybe:

But can she govern? I think she's going to have the same problems Ryan had, a party beset by fringes.

[Mik]

Yes, and a very thin majority.

[George K]

@mik said in The 117th Congress begins today - maybe:

who voted present and other?

(Wikipedia)

Representatives voting for someone other than their party's speaker nominee were:
■ Jared Golden, who voted for Tammy Duckworth, who was not a member of the House at the time;
■ Conor Lamb, who voted for Hakeem Jeffries;
■ Mikie Sherrill, Abigail Spanberger, and Elissa Slotkin, who voted "Present".

[Axtremus]

Pelosi, now 80 years old, also breaks the record for being the oldest person elected into the Speaker position. The previous record holder was Sam Rayburn from Texas, who was 78 years old at the time.

[Loki]

I’m no fan at all and her willingness to impeach was unconscionable but I would acknowledge she is very effective and it was smart to make sure she won again.

[George K]

@axtremus said in The 117th Congress begins today - maybe:

Pelosi, now 80 years old, also breaks the record for being the oldest person elected into the Speaker position. The previous record holder was Sam Rayburn from Texas, who was 78 years old at the time.

Democrats are breaking all kinds of records for installing geezers into office!

BTW: Boehner was elected with a similar slim vote.

[Copper]

She seems kind of feeble to me, we could do better.

[George K]

So much for quarantine guidelines:

[Axtremus]

Another worthy moment:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/02/new-congress-live-updates/

7:00 PM

Rep. Chip Roy forces vote on seating House members from 6 battleground states where Trump falsely claimed vote was rigged

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) objected to the swearing-in of House members from the six battleground states where Trump has falsely claimed that the vote was rigged, forcing the House to vote on whether the lawmakers who shared the ballot with the president and won their races should take the oath.
Roy, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, opposes efforts by several House Republicans to object to Biden’s win when Congress counts the electoral college vote on Wednesday. In a statement earlier Sunday, he and several other Republicans argued that states determine the results of their elections, not Congress.

Roy objected to seating the House delegations from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, leading to a vote on authorizing the speaker to swear in members.

“It would confound reason if the presidential results of these states were to face objection while the congressional results of the same process escaped public scrutiny,” Roy said in a statement.
With his move, Roy ensured that Republicans who vowed to challenge Biden’s win will be on record certifying the election results in their own races in the six states, an acknowledgment that the elections were legitimate along with Biden’s wins.
The vote to authorize the speaker to swear in new members was 371 to 2.

[Jolly]

@mik said in The 117th Congress begins today - maybe:

Yes, and a very thin majority.

Until the 118th Congress.