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More From the Los Angeles Times. Politics Phasing out gasoline cars and coal: What the U. Hastings , missed the speaker vote. Hastings has pancreatic cancer and has not been present in the Capitol for months as he undergoes treatment. Pelosi put her hand over her heart when the clerk called his name. Three others — Jeff Fortenberry , R-Neb.
Wilson , D-Fla. They voted in the speaker election from a plexiglass-enclosed area of the House gallery. Proxy voting will be reauthorized in the House rules package for the th Congress that the chamber will consider Monday. The speaker election lasted nearly three hours. To provide for social distancing, members came to the floor to vote in groups. There were periodic breaks in the voting as one group cleared and another came onto the floor, with most taking a seat.
Members who were seated stood to cast their votes. Skip to Content. Ron Kind just won reelection narrowly, 51 percent to 49 percent, against Republican Derrick Van Orden in a late-breaking race in Wisconsin.
Trump won the 3rd District by 4 points in and likely won it again. After years of falling short of seriously challenging the congressman, Republicans finally gave him a scare and will be emboldened to take him on again in two years. Kind, who voted for Georgia Democrat John Lewis for speaker two years ago, might be one of the Democrats allowed to defect again in January.
Conor Lamb was first elected in a special election, then reelected that November in a redrawn district that Trump carried by nearly 3 points. Lamb voted for Massachusetts Rep. Joseph P. Kenndy III two years ago and looks like a candidate to defect from Pelosi again with Parnell breathing down his neck. Lamb ignored a CQ Roll reporter who approached him Nov. The defectors are not the only potential Democrats in a difficult position on the speaker vote.
Matt Cartwright was reelected by 9 points in in a redrawn 8th District in Pennsylvania and voted for Pelosi. But he was just reelected 52 percent to 48 percent. Trump won his district by 10 points in and likely won it by a significant margin again, putting the congressman at significant risk to start the midterm cycle. But his position in leadership makes a defection difficult.
Back in , Republican John A.
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