House Leadership Same As It Ever Was
John Boehner will be the next speaker of the House. Now onto the bigger news: Nancy Pelosi’s leadership was retained by the surviving House Democrats. She will be minority leader, beating one Heath Shuler 150-43. New York Times: The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, was re-elected on Wednesday to lead the Democrats in the next Congress, despite her party’s loss of more than 60 seats and its majority control of the House in the midterm elections. Officials said that Ms. Pelosi defeated Representative Heath Shuler of North Carolina in an internal party vote, 150 to 43. Mr. Shuler acknowledged before the vote that he had no chance of winning, but he wanted to give disgruntled Democrats a chance to register their opposition to Ms. Pelosi’s leadership anyway. Read more Related Entries November 16, 2010 Congress Convicts Rangel November 12, 2010 Connecting the Dots on the Great Disconnect
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House Leadership Same As It Ever Was
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