From New York Times, I'm like about this today, one hundred and sixteen too caller has been sworn in and with it Democrats take control of the House and Nancy Pelosi. We takes her position as its leader, the scene on the hill ass. It happened it's January for My scholars gonna continues jacketed that, yes, there, yesterday morning and we're inside the? U S capital. We are here because this

is the day. When democrats take the majority in the House Nancy Policy reclaims the speakership and divided government begins and we're gonna go talk to my colleague, Julie Davis, who is covering this from morning until night surgery says she's over in the end whitey hovel. So we just gotta find and say I would even a humble disturb decrepid unpolished home are you truly is a kind. I think we should know for the New York Times. Congressional bureau is within the sound distance of flushing toilets. That's the sound your hearing and also the Senate gavel. Flushing, toilets gamble

hey so truly what's happening. So it's a big historic day. Nancy policy will be elected speaker to reclaim the gavel as the first woman, hold that post and you have a hundred new members of the House of Representatives sixty six them Democrats. Forty four Republicans, including the most diverse gender and racially diverse class. In history, as the first muslim woman, you can see the first job being worn on the house. Nor did the first native american women and their organs be sworn in and take their places on house more after having stood up and voted for a policy for speaker. So we should be so yeah she's bath, here, with their little audio, crowns on their efforts and their coats, and these are all

murders. Assembled waiting for waiting for Lucy to emerge. Other photographers for her big, close up big moment has been a while, since the meaning of Congress has had a lot of certain new elements to you. Now it usually, these things are pretty standard affair. I don't think I've ever seen this many people in this hall before, the House press Geller, video recording rules in here you have a response, so So you can take audio in the chamber if it's for your note taking purposes only, it can't be for rebranded can't report anything that happens in here. For so we are in

Let you go and check in with you later in the day, sensory. Get in there and see. What's going on, do you think you should go someplace. I was crazy, Certainly what was it like when you guns in the chamber. So it was very loud and was hot, because us reporters worse of all packed into the gallery, and the visitors gallery was all full of people as well: family members, friends and supporters and then the well of the house. The actual floor was completely filled with members and children because they were allowed to bring kids. I think twice

so there were lots of babies, use being bounced around the kids running around in there being a fancy closing their also greeted each other for the members who had been there before fighting each other for the ones who were new after they got book called or are there was a prayer receive? No, this prudent all more omen and legible legion. I pledge away and then what they did was they started something called the call of the states, the representatives of actual record, their presence by electronic device and their name for me imported in alphabetical order by state. They have to convene the house centrally to have to get everyone there, because they are going to elect the leadership resenting the lacked, what have a minimum of fifteen minutes to record their presence by electronic device, the lights, demagogic, an electronic boards turn on all the names of the members Congress up here,

in the wall, and you can see the peas start to appear by people's names as they were present representatives from actual have not obtain their voting. I e cards major sir now in the speakers lobby, so it was around on the eyes slogan myself to the house, suppress gallery balcony and I couldn't help noticing how really differently energy and the appearance were. Two sides of the house on the democratic side. It was used for and loud and a little kind of chaotic,

the children running around- and there was this sea of clothing. There was a Palestinian through a muslim headscarf. There was a public dress and on the republican side, by comparison it it was really kind of stark was pretty striking. I mean, I think part of it is just the demographics of the new democratic class and the democratic, as is already pretty diverse, but this new infusion of members really I got a lot more now and they made a point today of like really strutting that and displaying that. Well, I mean Deb Haaland, who is the first native american woman in Congress, made a point of wearing her traditional pueblo dress with the moccasins and like the beautiful turquoise and silver jewelry, and you know she did that because she was making a

meant, and here the first palestinian member, more her as you mentioned, are sold and again that's not something she wears everyday, but it's because they want to take note of this moment and have the world take note of this moment that you know this is different. This is a different face of Congress and on the republican side. It was a lot of men in business suits and ties, and women like solid colored, sensible business dresses, and you know the mood, I think- was also addressed- more sombre, they're losing the majority and there are much less relevant in the current environment of divided government. Pursuant shall Ma Am precedent. The next order of business is the election of the speaker of the House of Representatives, so basically that unfolded for a while until they got to the point where they had enough members present on the floor,

or nominations. Are now in order to actually start the little? The clerk recognizes. The gentleman from New York Minster, Jeffreys, hacking Jeffrey, is the head of a democratic caucus, gets up to make his nominating speech Nazi policy for Nancy Policy, a voice for the voiceless, a defender of the disenfranchise, In the end, this you know stupor high energy nominee then squarely behind her today. Let me end with a house. Democrats are down with Andy we're down with envy peel for sticker. Whenever this provision, honestly, you grant, the clerk now recognises the gentlewoman from Wyoming this Cheney, so an endless Chinese, publicly side who's the head there at the conference village to nominate the gentleman from California. Mr Mccarthy, as Speak

of the United States House of representatives have been nominated. Heaven, Mccarthy, the converse with the California who has been the majority leader is now the minority. Later and again it so much more somber speech, but you know raising his leadership reader, Mccarthy, let us in passing legislation to secure our borders, keep our nation safe and the devastating practice of sanctuary cities. And yes, Madame Clerk build the wall with occasional dig the democratically absolutely. This is her chance set the table. A bed for policy has heard moment in the sun. The honourable Nancy Policy, a representative of act from the state of California and the honourable Kevin Majority, a representative from the state of California, have been placed

nomination so and then this actual vote gets under way and it's a very unique kind of vote, because, unlike most votes in the House of Representatives which are tally, electronically are choosing. The reigning. Clark will now call the wrong. This is a roll call vote where people actually have to say the name of the person they want to vote for four Speaker Inter Mr Abraham a currency and they literally go through every single member of the house. Alphabetically say the members name, the member says who they will fall. Firstly, a policy or, in some cases, in a few cases, Santiago entirely. And vote for whoever you want for speaker, Mccarthy and then the clerk who's taking the wrong repeats. The vote, bad policy, and some members use their vote like make a little statement me now,

So, who are the Democrats who don't vote for in this moment? Spam You have people like Abigail Span, Burger in Virginia Mikey, share all in New Jersey. Conor Land who was elected at special action earlier in the year, but from Pennsylvania, almost all M, are newly elected members who campaign saying that they wouldn't vote financing closely, that they want to change in washing They wanted a new face for their party. They wanted the gridlock to end and a lot of them are people who ran in districts that trump one they're, not in solidly democratic districts where Nancy Policy-

going to be an asset, and many of them are in districts where she is going to be a liability, and so they came in after the election pretty firm in their belief that they couldn't vote for her both because they didn't feel comfortable doing so and also because they campaign thing. I never was so among these cuts silly watched fresh until just got elected in the end, it was not the liberal freshman, who opposed her on the floor today It was Democrats who feared having, in association with him of having to explain to their from voting constituents back at home that they had voted for policy. Those were the ones who lodged protest vice that trade policy

at one point when it Alex Andrea, causing Cortez, is turned to vote store, House liberal, fresh and she's like wearing stark white suit and bright red, lipstick and very recognisable. She gets she said you have the floor, No, she sitting down Republicans asserted couples and do a little bit of hissing and she kind of smiles and look silver and mouths. Sorry, you know they have really hoped that cause the court has and the left become as much of a thorn in the side of Nancy Policy as a speaker as the freedom contest

and the hard right was for John Boehner and Paul Ryan after him. But in the end she voted for policy and all the other progressive stead and they had made a pragmatic choice. She went with policy as sort of the most effective alternative if she wants to have a majority that actually does something. Then there's this weird like lol where we all know that she's gonna be the speaker, but there's all this counting going on in there's like backing and fourth thing and the clerks at the desk, their poring over their sheets of paper. And the tellers on each side are poring over their sheets of paper. Lot of milling around and it too So, while for the announcement to be me by the clerk of the house, the tellers agree in their tallies with the total number of votes cast is four hundred and thirty of which the honourable Nancy policy of this data

I'll have borne yeah has received two hundred and twenty nine suppose it has been elected speaker, and at that point, and in that spirit I extend my hand of friendship that is when you have this kind of rare moment of bi partisanship, where cabin Mccarthy from the Republic inside and Nancy Policy, from the democratic side both go up together to deny us into the speaker of the house. Nancy Pelosi extend to this gap. And he hands for the gavel and she becomes speaker of the house and what is actually said. Thank you very much, MRS Mccarthy. I look forward to working with you and by partisan way. Oh, she starts out with sort of gesture to the Republicans you I respect you and constituents who sent each and every one of us here. They expect

and deserve for us to try to find our common ground. There's a really interesting moment where she mentions dreamers, and we will make the American more american by protecting our patriotic courageous dreamers, whose protections President Trump has provoked a member talking about the dreamers. Let us remember what President Reagan said: she quotes Ronald Reagan in his final speech as president, he said if we ever close the door to New Americans, our leadership role and the world will soon be lost Ronald Reagan and it's a big round of a PAWS

as I looked out over the chamber, is all Democrats who are mapping and so there's a long pause and she finally looks over to the republic inside and says, applaud coronal right, you don't even applied Ronald Reagan, she's trying to reach out and be by partisan and seem like she's talking everyone, but she kind of notes in this right way that there are limits I close by remembering a cherished former member of this body, and this was the only time she mentioned a republican presidency. She actually closed her speech by talking about George H, W

Today I single out one of his great achievements, working with both Democrats and Republicans, to write the Americans with Disabilities act into the walls of our land and which a message of mentioning these republican presidents. I think she's, trying to show that you know she is respectful of people of both parties, but with a clear kind of sharper edge implied of like, but she doesn't actually respect the sitting republican president. You know she's sort of harking back to a time when Republicans and Democrats were better able to kind of talk to each other and share some common values and given nod to the fact that that's not happening anymore. It's a call for a kind of by partisan spirit that has been lacking.

And it certainly wasn't. The hallmark of the Republican Congress did just closed, and so I think, she's trying to kind of identified democratic. That without also sounds like a message to her own new activist liberal house freshmen. That would seem to have put them their place and say your agenda is not our only agenda, in fact it may not even be. My agenda is one of many agenda that we have to deal with it. I think that's right, and I think that was a big kind of theme of the speech was that you know None of this is about being partisan and being on one team or the other. It's about what the voters told us, which is that we you to go to Washington and fix things and talk to each other and be more accountable to the people and so whatever. That means that's what we're gonna need to do and its

gonna be about you know, seeking our positions on the fringes now in practice will see whether that actually pans out, but it is important for, I think, going in to her first day a speaker to make it clear to people that she is not gonna, be carrying the water for any one. Ocular ideological part of the spectrum that she has to unify everyone, or else this thing is not to work. This majority is not going be effective. Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. That you well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office which you're about to enter so help me. God

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love, check out patriarch dot com now and help change the way art is valued. I could do it now, or I mean I'm gonna, be here along tat. So if you want to do now- and I'm not like to underline a second to be pretty fast- let me see if I can get a year ago, soldierly I was speaking two's, however, show me yesterday. About government open again, but a lot of accommodation was about what he described as ironclad partnership with policy, work together, starting with solving the shutdown and making sure to not fund the wall, but more broadly. His point was, that

The two of them are going to be in constant communication. They're gonna be this one unified democratic unit and that's his perspective. I wonder what pelusium perspective on that partnership is. Is it as unified to her, or does she have a different take on the relationship? I think it is as unified in her mind, but may be for different reasons. I mean, I think, that she recognizes the reality that she is the one with the actual majority she's, the one who needs to set the table for these votes to take place and her ability to do that is gonna shape the message and a lot of ways. The Democrats her to go forward with, but she's gonna be in a position where the house,

moving in a direction that shimmer can't follow, because that undercuts her negotiating power and nothing else. Nancy policy is a very effective legislative maneuver and she knows that your power is in knowing where the votes are, and that's not only true in terms of the house is also true in terms of the Senate. She has to know that if you know she's gonna stick out a position and she's gonna need shimmer to be able to hold Senate Democrats together on it that he's gonna be able to do that, and so for the same reasons, I think think that sees it. This way policy also does, but she has an added incentive because she doesn't want to make her members take votes that are going to be meaningless in the end, if she can stick out a position that can be sustained by Senate Democrats is a much more effective way of way of and potentially if they can find it

is where they can draw a handful of Republicans to their side, a much more effective way of actually getting something dawn and getting something to President Frumps desk. So she really does need shimmer, as much is sure he's hurt. We think in this moment of humor needing anti pollution. I do at least because she has a legislator majority, but it sounds like she also needs him and the Senate Democrats in order for that majority to be effective and for its votes to carry actual meeting. To some degree I mean there are gonna, be places where she is going to have to part ways with him. She were has a much more so moderate cock ass. If you look at the group of Democrats that he has its much simpler surmount problem for him, and so she can't let him drag her too far to the right, because then

progress is slow revolt and now say a weary going, the right or the majority we should be as progressive as we want to be. We should be, as you know, dug in on our position as we want to be, and that's not always gonna be the incentive for shimmer, but on something like government shut down. Where there's a lot of unity among Democrats, I don't think you're in a seal at daylight between the two of them. Their most effective when they can be unlocked. Avengers seems to be greater risk for her in the relationship and then the concept of the two of them being lockstep than for him because of the diversity of ideologically of bows democratic caucus. I think that's right. She has members who would give her more trouble and she is my it's because she's in the majority you know she's shooting with live bullets. On the other hand, Chuck Schumer has a different problem, which is he has a bunch of people in his caucus in the Senate, who are lying, runs for the presidency, who are not going to want to let Nancy Pelosi in the House, Democrats be to the left of them

we're going to want to be defining that round. The Democrats are going to be on, and so they have different problems, but I think when it comes to being outward facing for Republicans, they both see the need to be unified, because, if plus he's going to be successful, she needs Schumer to be able to stay, her positions in the Senate and vice versa. So with all this in mind and taking stock of this day, what is the meaning of what happened here and the capital today? I think what you saw was this through very different, looking different sounding energize majority of Democrats and Speaker Pelosi, sort of trying to reset the conversation about ends

re imagining what Congress can be about after two years of having a congress that never told the President know always had his back was always unlock separate. What he was doing. This was an attempt to going to turn the page and say we look differently sound different. You're going to be different, but we're going to try to do it in a way that sounds unifying. So the substance of it is more challenging president trump, but the symbolism of it is a more unifying approach and honestly I'll, be interested to see how long that last, because this is gonna, get messy really fast and the shut down is just certain. First iteration of that. So I think it was about a fleeting moment of having a sort of a higher aspiration for Congress will see at last, thank you were saying that they were truly leverage. It is my pleasure

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Leave Thursday night. The new democratic majority in the house voted to reopen the federal government without funding the border, as signs emerged that the pollution humor strategy behind the vote of trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Senate Republicans was starting to work to Senate Republicans, Corey gardener of Colorado and Susan Collins of Man. Look with the president saying it was time to end the shutdown. Even if democrats refuse to sign off on five billion dollars for the wall, still the shut down is expected to continue. Unless more republicans embrace the Democrats, plan use. What else you need to know that

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