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Original Title: Political Clouds Over the US Congress, Pelosi: We Start a New Congress at a Very Difficult Time
[Corresponsal especial de Global Times en los Estados Unidos, Chen Xiang, reportero de Global Times, Zheng Xuan]At the third local time, the 117th Congress of the United States was inaugurated. Faced with the new corona pneumonia epidemic plaguing the United States, a more divided House of Representatives, an unstable Senate, and the political turmoil sparked by President Trump’s attempt to overthrow the general election results, Pelosi, a Democrat who was reelected as Speaker of the House of Representatives, she said bluntly: “We Start a New Congress in a Very Difficult Period.” Senate Republican Leader McConnell said using “defiant” to describe the current Congress opening is a bit ” falling short. “The United States has a lot of difficulties and it is very difficult. The US media said this week is particularly important for US politics.
“Pelosi was re-elected as spokesperson in the shadow of uncertainty.” According to a Reuters report on the 4th, in the House of Representatives vote the day before, Pelosi received 216 votes, opening her fourth two-year term as Speaker of the House of Representatives by a narrow margin. Republican McCarthy won 209 votes and will continue to serve as the minority leader of the House of Representatives. When McCarthy handed the Speaker for the Speaker to Pelosi, he recalled that Congress was being swayed by partisan differences. McCarthy accused Pelosi of leading “the least effective Congress in nearly 50 years” in the past two years, and in the face of multiple crises, the Democratic Party “is on the side.” He said that in the House of Representatives election in November last year, Republicans won seats out of 12 Democrats. “This is a wake-up call … The question I want to ask the majority of this term (House of Representatives) is: Did you hear that? ? “
Although Democrats currently control the House of Representatives, there are some young members of the Democratic Party who oppose Pelosi’s continuation of the presidency and are not satisfied that she has held this position since 2003. In the 117th Congress, the Democratic Party has 222 members of the House of Representatives, which is just 4 more than the 218 seats required to obtain majority status in the House of Representatives. Many American media claimed that the Democratic Party has become the majority party in the House of Representatives with the smallest advantage in 20 years. Additionally, Pelosi also won the House of Representatives position by a narrow margin. He just crossed the 214 votes needed to close this position. Five Democratic congressmen did not support the 80-year-old senior in the 3-day vote. Party leaders. However, Pelosi has said that these may be her last two years as a speaker.
The “Los Angeles Times” commented on the 4th that the weak majority of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives will make legislation difficult. The vote in the House of Representatives on the 3rd is basically divided along party lines. According to CNN’s analysis, Pelosi faces multiple difficulties in moving the legislation through Congress. In addition to the strong opposition from the Republican Party, it also includes some factors within the Democratic Party. For example, the epidemic has prevented some Democratic lawmakers from voting and the Democratic Party hopes to find the voice of a new leader. Keep increasing, etc.
“The focus of Washington and national politics has shifted to the Senate,” National Public Radio (NPR) and other outlets reported that who will win control of the Senate depends on the Georgia Senate election on January 5. Trump and US President-elect Biden plan to travel to the state on Monday to poll the votes of candidates from both parties. Various polls show that the support ratings of the candidates of the two parties are similar. Georgia traditionally supports the Republican Party, but Biden’s victory over the state in last year’s election gave the Democratic Party new hope.
In the Senate, Democrats and Republicans currently hold 46 and 50 seats respectively, and the other two seats are held by independent senators who vote unanimously with the Democrats. To retain the majority seat in the Senate, Republicans must win at least one of Georgia’s two senator seats so they can prevent Biden and Pelosi from achieving the Democratic agenda. If the Democrats win two seats, when the Senate vote is stalled, the vice president who is the president of the Senate will have the deciding vote. Agence France-Presse commented that the election in Georgia on the 5th is an election that Republicans must win.
According to reports from “USA Today” and the Associated Press, when Pelosi was elected speaker of the House of Representatives, it was 17 days before Biden took office. The two men are not facing a new beginning. Some problems and undercurrents left by the Trump administration will accompany them. With the distribution of the new corona virus vaccine, Congress takes on the task of leading the United States to rid itself of the epidemic. Although Congress passed the $ 900 billion epidemic aid bill late last year and Trump signed the bill, many Democrats believe the money is just a “down payment.” They said more help is needed to vaccinate the public, contain the virus, and restore lost jobs and businesses closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of early morning on the 5th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States surpassed 20.63 million and the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 351,000.
“USA Today” said the first day of the opening of the new US Congress exposed the tensions that may dominate Washington for the next two years. From epidemic prevention and control measures to the 2020 elections, lawmakers have been attacking each other throughout the year. McConnell stated bluntly on Day 3 that the United States faces many challenges, from political differences to deadly epidemics to rivals around the world. Pelosi also said that the responsibilities facing the new Congress are “overwhelming.”
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