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Nancy Pelosi during the inauguration of the United States Congress. Pelosi was reelected by a narrow margin as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
On Sunday, Democrat Nancy Pelosi was re-elected speaker of the US House of Representatives, but only after a bite to vote in the newly convened Congress.
The divided Congress began in 2021 with the election of Nancy Pelosi, 80, to a fourth term.
“We are starting the new congress during an extraordinarily difficult time,” Pelosi said after the election, vowing to make sure her chamber follows up on the latest package of support for the American people with more help.
– Our most urgent problem is to continue defeating the coronavirus and we will defeat it.
But the division in the nation’s legislature – Republicans currently have a majority in the Senate, while Democrats have a majority in the House of Representatives – was also felt in the long and secured vote for the crown.
Pelosi won by just seven votes, 216-209, over Republican Kevin McCarthy, a smaller margin than the already small majority of Democrats in the House (222-211).
Several members of her own party either abstained or raised it with another Democrat, which for a short time appeared to jeopardize Pelosi’s re-election. But the vast majority of Democrats voted for the veteran, though primarily because the alternative would be worse.
“We have too few votes to risk the presidency to the Republicans and this is much bigger than anyone,” said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York representative who has been one of Pelosi’s biggest in recent years. critics within their own party.
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