The new Congress of the United States took office this Sunday amid an atmosphere of expectation for the definition of the majority in the Senate and for the promise of a hectic session next Wednesday, in which the victory of the president-elect will be sealed. Joe Biden.
More feminine and diverse than ever, the House of Representatives, dominated by Democrats, met again for the swearing-in of its members, all under a reinforced sanitary protocol.
In the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, 80, was re-elected as president in what will be, according to her last term. With 216 votes in favor and 208 against, Pelosi secured enough votes to stay in the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives, for which the one she was elected in 2019 and which places whoever occupies it as third in the line of succession presidential, behind the vice president.
Pelosi, who also held this position between 2007 and 2011, remained silent during the vote sitting in her seat, although she nodded or smiled every time a fellow member of the bench voted for her out loud.
In recent years Pelosi had to face the progressivism of the new generations that arrived at the Capitol, among them is the figure of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who contemplated on some occasion that Congress should have a young and new leadership, although she also remarked that due to the existence of a “leadership vacuum” Nancy Pelosi came to join forces.
