and without question in my mind, speaker emerita pelosi will go down in history as the greatest speaker of all-time! [applause] throughout her time, throughout her time, though in congress she has been a legendary legislator. a fabulous facilitator, and a no nonsense negotiator. we know that nancy pelosi is a woman of faith. a loving wife, a mother a five, a grandmother of nine. a defender of democracy. a voice for the voiceless, and a powerful champion for the children, the climate, charles cynthia, california, the caucus, the congress, and the constitution. thank you madam speaker for all that you have done! it is an honor to stand on your broad shoulders! [applause] as well, as well as the shoulders of the great steny ona, and the great jim climber. two consequential leaders in their own right. [applause] now, scripture says angulation s, let us now become weary and doing good. for at the proper time, we will reap the harvest if we do not give up. over the last two years
and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of a history lesson here. compare this to any other time in modern history. any other time in modern history there is none because,, the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballot was 1823, but, we will come right back to this, but just to put in some perspective, what the history of this is, you are looking at here, this is every speakers race in history, that s gone past one ballot. we put this together earlier, only 11 ballots, this is the 15th ballot, so right here in history is where the speakers race ranks, this is the fifth longest speakers race in the history of the country, and you can see the four that were longer than this were all pre civil war, this is going to finish well shy of a record of 133 minutes, if it does indeed finish here, 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history, and again we haven t seen this go p
played this brilliantly. yep, this is his 15 minutes of fame, his 15th vote of fame, we re about to hear what matt gates does, does he vote president or does he not. gates? president. over and over again at this point. mccarthy voting presents doesn t change anything now. in fact, now mccarthy, gates voting president doesn t change anything. steve kornacki, but now mccarthy has a cushion. yes, basically mccarthy would have to lose people who have been voting for him on a previous ballot, that is the only thing that changes right now, the gates present vote, that actually means that if everybody else where the votes, there would be 430 total votes, and again, a majority there would be 2:16, and like we have been saying, mccarthy already has, he comes into this ballot,
historians will tell you he did not get a correct they ll tell you washington crossing on a durham vote but he paints it with washington in a row bow. you see, 13 people but only 12 faces. you see, washington standing up in a row bow in the middle of winter wearing a ceremonial uniform with his hand on his chest. he looks so stoic. you look at that man he would say, i fall him anywhere. you probably believe that he never lost a battle. but history would tell us that that moment, at that time, he had only lost. we have never won. uc, that was the night of our first victory as a nation when we surprise the but when you look at that painting, don t look at washington. i want you to look at who is in the boat. you see, the second role in the beret, he scottish. the person directly crossed him
historians will tell you he did not get a correct they ll tell you washington crossing on a durham vote but he paints it with washington in a row bow. you see, 13 people but only 12 faces. you see, washington standing up in a row bow in the middle of winter wearing a ceremonial uniform with his hand on his chest. he looks so stoic. you look at that man he would say, i fall him anywhere. you probably believe that he never lost a battle. but history would tell us that that moment, at that time, he had only lost. we have never won. uc, that was the night of our first victory as a nation when we surprise the but when you look at that painting, don t look at washington. i want you to look at who is in the boat. you see, the second role in the