Day 1 of a Democratic Majority

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The 116th Congress has been sworn in. With that, Democrats have taken control of the House, and Representative Nancy Pelosi has reclaimed her position as its leader. Here’s the scene on Capitol Hill as the day unfolded. Guest: Julie Hirschfeld Davis, who covers Congress for The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.
0:11.0	Today, the 116th Congress has been sworn in and with it, Democrats take control of the House
0:20.0	and Nancy Pelosi retakes her position as its leader.
0:25.0	The scene on the hill as it happened.
0:31.0	It's Friday, January 4th.
0:40.0	Hey y'all doing good.
0:42.0	Women's are two professional ideas.
0:44.0	Senator Prescaler, we're going to get tidies.
0:46.0	Checking at that?
0:47.0	Yes, there.
0:48.0	Thank you.
0:49.0	So it's Thursday morning and we're inside the US Capitol.
0:51.0	We are here because this is the day when Democrats take the majority in the House.
0:57.0	Nancy Pelosi reclaims the speakership and divided government begins.
1:04.0	And we're going to go talk to my colleague, Julie Davis, who is covering this from morning until night.
1:11.0	So Julie says she's over in the NYT Havoll.
1:14.0	Should we just go try to find it and say, I?
1:16.0	What do you think a Havoll is?
1:18.0	Oh, I mean, it's just a decrepit, unpolished home.
1:30.0	Hi.
1:31.0	How are you?
1:32.0	Julie is a Havoll.
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