House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., won another term as speaker Sunday with just more than enough votes than needed to secure the position.
Pelosi won 216 votes, with 208 going to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Two members voted for other Democrats while three Demcrats voted present.
The new Congress convened Sunday, just two days after lawmakers ended their contentious previous session and with COVID-19 guidelines requiring testing and face coverings for House members. There was widespread mask-wearing and far fewer lawmakers and guests in the chamber than usual, an unimaginable tableau when the last Congress commenced two years ago, before the pandemic struck.
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