NotedDC — 5 iconic moments from Pelosi’s time as Speaker

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who has been the primary and solely lady to carry the highly effective submit that’s third in line for the presidency, introduced Thursday that she’s going to step down from her place as chief of the Home Democrats after 20 years.

“For me the hour has come for a brand new technology to steer the Democratic caucus that I so deeply respect, and I’m grateful that so many are prepared and keen to shoulder this superior duty,” Pelosi stated on the Home ground, sporting certainly one of her signature pantsuits. “I stay up for the unfolding story of our nation — a narrative of sunshine and love, of patriotism and progress, of many turning into one, and all the time an unfinished mission to make the desires of at present the fact of tomorrow.”

Republicans narrowly seized management of the Home within the midterm elections, and the GOP caucus has tapped Republican Chief Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) to be its Speaker nominee. McCarthy, who didn’t attend Pelosi’s ground speech Thursday, nonetheless wants help of 218 Home members throughout a vote in January to safe the submit.

Pelosi served throughout among the most divisive occasions in trendy historical past, together with throughout the Iraq Conflict and the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol, the place indignant supporters of then-President Trump tried to cease the certification of now-President Biden’s election. She was a chief foil to Trump throughout his presidency, incomes his derision as “loopy” and “scary.”

“I’ve loved working with three presidents,” Pelosi stated in her outgoing speech, name-checking Presidents George W. Bush, Obama and Biden, whereas pointedly omitting Trump.

Biden, who had spoken to Pelosi earlier than the speech, launched a 531-word assertion calling her “probably the most consequential speaker of the Home of Representatives in our historical past.”

Because the historic Speaker prepares to relinquish her gavel, NotedDC seems again at a few of her most iconic moments in energy:

The desk confrontation: Pelosi has made no secret of her disdain for Trump — although she says, as a Catholic, she doesn’t “hate” him. In a viral 2019 photograph captured by an official White Home photographer, Pelosi is seen in a blue go well with, standing and pointing her finger at Trump as he seems on. She reportedly was in an argument with him over plans for Syria and shortly left the assembly. Trump tweeted the photograph as a dig at Pelosi, whereas she and her allies used it as a present of her willingness to face as much as him.
The rip: On the finish of Trump’s third State of the Union speech in 2020, the Speaker dramatically ripped up her paper copy of his remarks. She later referred to as it a “manifesto of mistruths,” and stated the act was “the courteous factor to do contemplating the options.”
The “shhh”: To maintain issues skilled, Pelosi hushed her caucus when members broke out in cheers after the vote to question Trump over his alleged interference with Ukraine. The GOP-controlled Senate didn’t vote to convict Trump, however the Home occasion marked an enormous milestone for a lot of Democrats. To maintain issues from trying too celebratory, Pelosi shot her mom-eye daggers at her members to finish the celebration.
The clapback: After Trump’s 2019 State of the Union speech, Pelosi was the one that had folks speaking. She gave what gave the impression to be a mocking, extended-arm clap at Trump as he turned towards her, a slight smirk on her face. It’s been memed and used as a gif in quite a few methods to usually specific condescension.
The legacy: The Inexpensive Care Act — the crowning achievement of Obama’s tenure — handed the Home by simply three votes. Pelosi is basically credited with corralling her caucus to get it throughout the end line. ObamaCare has withstood many authorized challenges and pledges to repeal. It’s additionally offered well being care protection for hundreds of thousands of Individuals. Pelosi borrowed a particular gavel with a congressional legacy of its personal for the event. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the longest-serving member of Congress in historical past who handed away in 2019, loaned Pelosi the massive wood gavel he used when he presided over the vote to move Medicare in 1965.

BONUS: This photograph of a 17-year-old Pelosi with then-Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Pelosi says her pal advised her to save lots of the pic as a result of he “could also be president in the future.”

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Home Republicans set their sights on Biden

Gear up for a number of investigations into President Biden as Republicans take management of the Home within the coming yr.

“We’re targeted on a variety of issues, however Oversight … We really feel that is utmost significance,” Rep. James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who doubtless shall be heading up the Home Oversight and Reform Committee within the coming time period, advised reporters Thursday. “We’re going to do a variety of investigations. Loads of probing.”

Republicans have spent years questioning the enterprise dealings of the president’s son, Hunter Biden, and what function or affect he has had on the president by means of the years.

“We’re going to do a variety of investigations. Loads of probing,” Comer stated.

He denied that the brand new GOP majority will solely deal with Biden, however it’s price noting that former President Trump, who was impeached twice underneath Democratic rule, is carefully aligned with Republicans on the Oversight panel and has already publicly requested “what number of” occasions Republicans will impeach Biden.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR ELECTION DENIALISM AFTER THE MIDTERMS?

The legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election has been one of the crucial outstanding points within the Republican Social gathering over the past two years. Candidates who expressed skepticism about or outright denied the outcomes misplaced a number of high-profile races final Tuesday.

Every week after the midterms, former President Trump introduced his 2024 bid, and former Vice President Mike Pence stated he’s contemplating his personal amid his first public feedback about his expertise on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The continued prominence of election denialism inside the GOP within the years to return is in query. We checked out a pair midterm outcomes analyses and talked to GOP strategists for insights.

Based on a Washington Publish evaluation:

51 % of the 569 Republican candidates who ran for federal and “key statewide workplaces … had denied or questioned the end result of the final presidential election.”
Round 60 % of the election deniers gained, together with not less than 150 who seem to have gained U.S. Home races.
In six states the place Trump tried to overturn 2020 election outcomes, deniers misplaced races the place victories would have enabled them to “act on these false claims in future elections.” Important losses included secretary of state races in Michigan, Arizona and Nevada and gubernatorial elections in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The Publish “recognized candidates as election deniers in the event that they questioned Biden’s victory, opposed the counting of Biden’s electoral school votes, expressed help for a partisan post-election poll evaluate, signed onto a lawsuit looking for to overturn the 2020 consequence, or attended or expressed help for the rally on the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.”

A Brookings evaluation included state legislative candidates. From the report:

“The latest election was very dangerous for the election denier motion,” the Brookings Institute stated.
Of 341 candidates “working on a platform of election denial,” 224, or roughly 66 %, gained their races.
“The statewide workplaces, and secondarily, the state legislators, have extra energy to have an effect on election administration than do members of Congress. And the prospect of election deniers in workplace is rather more harmful in swing states than in deeply crimson or deeply blue states[.]”
For statewide workplaces, “the statistics for election deniers are far worse in relation to swing states. Virtually the entire successes had been in crimson or deep crimson states.”
The general 224 determine “consists of 133 congressional candidates, 114 of them had been incumbents who all the time have excessive win charges. A few of these incumbents had been MAGA-style incumbents from deep crimson districts who had given some form of help to Trump’s ‘massive lie’ in regards to the election. That help ranged from voting towards Biden within the 2020 electoral school vote, to a declaration that Biden was an illegitimate president, to milder statements about the necessity to guarantee election integrity.”

Another takeaways:

FiveThirtyEight – “Denying The 2020 Election Wasn’t A Profitable Technique For Political Newcomers”
Brennan Middle – “Election Denial in Races for Election Administration Positions”

GOP strategists weigh in: NotedDC requested two Republican strategists for his or her ideas on whether or not questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election would possibly proceed to be a significant theme amongst candidates and elected officers going ahead.

Rina Shah, a former senior congressional staffer, stated, “The election denial theme is unfortunately ensconced with parts of the Republican base. What shall be most fascinating to see [is] how the controversy manifests itself in intraparty debates, particularly as we (sadly) start the presidential marketing campaign season properly over 700 days earlier than Election Day 2024.” Shah stated election denialism was rejected this previous week. She additionally stated she thought of Glenn Youngkin’s use of the phrase “election integrity” in his gubernatorial marketing campaign to be “a manner of doing election denialism-lite.”
Ford O’Connell, a former Trump White Home and marketing campaign surrogate, advised NotedDC, “The message to the Republican Social gathering is loud and clear. Fairly than endlessly griping about democracy-undermining measures like poll harvesting, mail-in balloting, drop-boxes, limitless early voting, and hazy vote tabulation procedures in a number of states (NV, AZ, PA, and many others.), Republicans are higher served to adapt to the brand new no holds barred voting terrain till they will get right into a place to roll-back many of those nefarious mechanisms in an effort to make sure voter integrity and confidence in our elections.”

Infrastructure week YEAR

This week marked a yr since President Biden signed the belabored $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package deal into regulation. The regulation offers cash for roads, bridges and inexperienced vitality initiatives, amongst different priorities.

The White Home launched a abstract of what the historic spending package deal has accomplished up to now, and it consists of:

$185 billion in funding awarded
Greater than 6,900 tasks
4,000 communities throughout 50 states
2,800 bridge restore and substitute tasks underway
5,000 new clear transit and college buses

Learn extra updates right here.

BRIEFLY

—A look on the dispute between failed GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake and Arizona election officers over Election Day machine points and the gubernatorial election outcomes

—Rand Paul will serve because the rating Republican on the Senate Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Committee. The Kentucky senator stated, “Given the committee’s obligation to conduct oversight over the complete authorities, I stay hopeful that we are going to pursue a strong and bipartisan investigation into the origins of COVID.”

—A number of Democrats hope to handle the debt ceiling with bipartisan help throughout the lame-duck session. Prospects are unclear.

—Twelve Republicans joined 50 Democrats within the Senate in a procedural vote to advance a invoice that might shield same-sex marriage.

Throwback Thursday

ard to imagine however it’s been lower than a yr since Samuel Bankman-Fried, the now disgraced head of crypto change FTX, testified optimistically about the way forward for cryptocurrency throughout a Home Monetary Providers Committee listening to on Dec. 8, 2021.

The cryptocurrency agency, which lately imploded, prompting a wave of allegations of mismanagement and not less than one class motion lawsuit from individuals who misplaced their cash within the firm’s downfall.

“FTX is grateful to this committee for the chance to share details about the digital-asset ecosystem and recommend methods the advantages and promise of the business can proceed to be realized, and in a accountable manner,” SBF, as he’s popularly recognized, advised the committee in his opening remarks.

The listening to received little consideration on the time, however in gentle of FTX’s monumental collapse and allegations of fraud and different misdeeds, it’s price one other watch.

“My aim has been to seek out methods to have optimistic influence on the world and to maximise that and to take action by supporting some actually implausible organizations,” SBF tells the members of Congress. “I believe the business has the potential to approve lots of people’s lives.”

Watch the full listening to right here. And skim SBF’s written opening remarks right here.

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THEY SAID IT

“I await the day when my husband returns to steer an America that’s characterised by peace, love and safety,” former first woman Melania Trump in an announcement to Breitbart about former President Trump’s resolution to run once more in 2024.

NUMBER TO KNOW

20%

How rather more Farm Bureau estimates households shall be paying for Thanksgiving dinner this yr, in comparison with final.

ONE MORE THING

White Home wedding ceremony weekend

Naomi Biden, beloved granddaughter of POTUS and FLOTUS, is ready to affix a really unique listing of brides this weekend when she weds her beau, Peter Neal, on the White Home South Garden on Saturday.

Elizabeth Alexander, a spokeswoman for first woman Jill Biden, confirmed the plans final yr and the much-anticipated occasion is on observe to occur simply days after President Biden returns from an abroad journey that took him to Egypt, Cambodia and Mylasia.

Naomi Biden, the president’s eldest granddaughter, is the daughter of Hunter Biden and his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle.

D.C.’s continued chilly climate forecast for Saturday is partly cloudy with temperatures solely barely reaching the mid-40s.

Noteworthy: The large occasion is going down a day earlier than President Biden’s
eightieth birthday.

Persevering with the South Garden pleasure, the president will pardon the Nationwide Thanksgiving Turkey in a ceremony there on Monday.

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