UPDATE: McCarthy falls short in first vote for House speaker.
after two years of a Democratic Party control of both houses of Congress.
Democrats leapt to applause, many casting their votes “proudly,” as one Black lawmaker, Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio said, for the historic new Democratic leader. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reconvenes for the final time and very quickly adjourns, thus ending the 117th Congress on Tuesday. “Kevin McCarthy is the right guy to lead this conference, the right guy to be speaker of the House,” Johnson said.
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