Nancy Pelosi becomes Speaker of The House, 116th Congress is most diverse ever

The honorable Nancy Pelosi of California, having received the majority of the votes cast is duly elected the representative for the 116th Congress.

And after those words were spoken, cheers and clapping and a standing ovation for the Speaker-Elect.

(AP Photo/Cliff Owen) pic.twitter.com/GPbWIK2adQ

— Colin Campbell (@colincampbell) January 3, 2019

Nancy Pelosi is now @SpeakerPelosi.

Again.

Today, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) became Speaker of the House of Representatives for the second time in her political career, after earning a majority of votes from her Democratic colleagues.

Since 2003, Pelosi has served as the top Democrat in the House. In 2007, she became the first female Speaker ever.

She cleared the majority threshold required to retake the gavel easily from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who today officially becomes the new Republican leader.

No final tally yet, but Nancy Pelosi just locked in the votes to be speaker. Dem vote breakdown:

12 voted for someone else (Brindisi, Crow, Cunningham, Golden, Kind, Lamb, McAdams, Rice, Rose, Schrader, Sherrill, Spanberger)

3 voted "present" (Cooper, Slotkin, Van Drew)

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) January 3, 2019

Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi of Baltimore, Maryland is making history again, leading the most diverse Congress in history.

She did not come to play. Pelosi is gonna (metaphorically) cut Trump's head off and feed it to his dyin' ass.

Actual photo of Nancy Pelosi returning to Congress pic.twitter.com/4yKPBjy5Zh

— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) January 3, 2019

Heck yeah.

Earlier today, Congresswoman Pelosi spoke on NBC's 'Today' about what a Trump impeachment would mean. Read the rest