Alaska’s lone member of the U.S. House, Rep. Mary Peltola, was to be sworn in for a full term in Congress on Tuesday. That didn't happen. Peltola sees it as a sign of the times.
Rep. Mary Peltola was the only member of Congress wearing a kuspuk on the first day of the 2023 session.
The ball is in the Republican court. They have a slim majority, but 20 hard-right Republicans voted for someone other than front-runner Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. That blocks him from the speaker’s chair and prevents all other members from taking their oath. Whatever the legal answer, she was wearing a pin signifying her membership in the 118th Congress. Peltola took a seat in the back of the House Chamber and, like all Democrats, just kept voting for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.
She needn’t have worried. At her new office, in the Cannon building across the street from the Capitol, spirits were high. The kids — who range in age from teen to adult — were yucking it up with each other, the staff and a stream of well-wishers.
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