House Democrats re-elect Pelosi as their leader; Republicans elect Cantor

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House Democrats re-elect Pelosi as their leader; Republicans elect Cantor

2010-11-18 03:56:58 GMT+7 (ICT)

WASHINGTON D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- House Democrats on Wednesday re-elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi to remain as their leader in the new Congress.

Pelosi, 70, was voted to remain as the Democrats leader despite her party lost the majority in the Congress after the midterm elections. She defeated moderate Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina by 150-43.

The election took place in a secret balloting held in a lengthy closed-door meeting of House Democrats in the Capitol. Pelosi, the first female House speaker, won the balloting despite the massive party losses in the congressional elections that caused some lawmakers to call for a new leadership.

Earlier on Wednesday, 68 of Pelosi's fellow Democrats voted to delay the election until next month in order to give more time to voters to analyze the midterm elections results. On Election Day, Democrats lost 61 seats and Pelosi was expected to step aside as leader following the horrible results.

However, Pelosi remained popular among the liberals that dominate the party’s House caucus. Many House Democrats defended the speaker and pointed out that the bad economy and high unemployment were the reasons for the election losses.

Meanwhile, Republicans voted to elect their new leader, who after the election results will be the majority leader of the Congress. John Boehner of Ohio was selected to become the speaker of the House in January and the party members elected Eric Cantor as its majority leader. He was unopposed for the position.

Cantor, 47, will be in charge of scheduling the daily floor proceedings in order to help determine what bills will be brought up for action. Cantor has become one of the leading critics of President Barack Obama.

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[Jingthing]

Pelosi's colleagues clearly value her strong leadership or they wouldn't have voted for her with such a huge majority. Pelosi's roots, BTW, are not originally San Francisco, but rather a great democratic political family in Baltimore, Maryland.

Edited November 17, 2010 by Jingthing

[Starlifter]

Pelosi's colleagues clearly value her strong leadership or they wouldn't have voted for her with such a huge majority. Pelosi's roots, BTW, are not originally San Francisco, but rather a great democratic political family in Baltimore, Maryland.

Talk about sucking up She ain't all that. Just how much is ole Nancy worth $ these days? Millions? Will she agree to not take any right offs, deductions, loopholes with her taxes and just pay straight taxes? I wonder if a group of illegal alliens decided to set up camp on her lawn would she bring them food and bless them or call law enforcement? Mind you I'm not all that "in love" with any political party but come on please give me a break Nancy the former Speaker of th House multi-millionaire puts her underwear on just like the rest of us.....well most of us. She may be able to raise a lot of money "playing the game" but take away her trained handlers and she is just another ink spot in history.

[Ulysses G.]

House Democrats on Wednesday re-elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi to remain as their leader in the new Congress.

Great news for the Republicans.

She has lived in San Francisco since the 60s.

[beechguy]

Hope she brings the party the same success the next election. She and Obama just don't get it, they can keep saying it's marketing, the people don't understtand, etc. the fact is people just don't want what they are trying to sell.

[joe84330]

Hope she brings the party the same success the next election. She and Obama just don't get it, they can keep saying it's marketing, the people don't understtand, etc. the fact is people just don't want what they are trying to sell.

well, to be fair, it's only the vast majority of the american people that don't want what they are trying to sell. there will always be the lunatic fringe, as evidenced by jingthings perpetual far left liberal spinning.

[koheesti]

So does this mean that Pelosi will still be able to take costly military flights to and from California?

[chuckd]

It's a done deal now, Jingthing.

It is by far the result we had hoped for. We now have the same Democratic party leadership that drove them into a 61 seat loss in the last election. The 2012 election can't get here fast enough.

Nancy now will have to get on those nasty commercial flights again. Wonder if she will be patted down?