Nancy Pelosi Re-elected as US House Speaker

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, was narrowly re-elected on Sunday to lead the House of Representatives.

Pelosi garnered 216 votes to 209 votes, seven more than the 209 votes for House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of California., who will again be the Republican minority leader in the House of the representatives, the voting results showed.

Pelosi told her fellow members that they "begin the new Congress during a time of extraordinary difficulty." After the last Congress passed a relief package in its waning days, she stressed that lawmakers' "most urgent priority will continue to be defeating the coronavirus."

"It gives me great pride," she said, "to serve as speaker of the most perse House in American history, with a record-shattering 122 women, 100 years after women won the right to vote."