115th House News Today

You want to accomplish and you left. >> on saturday rooney announced his retirement citing he had done the work and hoped to be a model for term limits. rooneys announcement makes him the 15th house gop member who will not be seeking another term. coming up, were going to bring in hans nichols with the latest from washington, how the trump administration is poised to kick off the new week following one of the most hectic and consequential news cycles yet for the white house. well be right back...

Its hard if not impossible to resist this rush of enthusiasm. there is no sense of foreboding in this house today, theres only the sense of potential. it kind of reminds you no matter how long you have been here you havent seen it all, so i just want to say to our new members and to their families, thank you, congratulations and welcome. [ applause ] >> to my own priest father paul, thank you for being with us today. appreciate it. [ applause ] >> and to my center, my family, jana, liza, charlie...

Speaker of the house for the 115th congress, the republicans are the majority in congress and avow to announce the agenda of the in-coming president donald trump. phil mattingly is joining us from capitol hill right now. phil, set the skoocene for us, nancy pelosi will introduce the speaker, but go ahead. >> reporter: that is correct, what we saw a few minutes ago was the completion of the house vote to speaker. what we actually saw was paul ryan faced fewer defections this time around than he d...

America? find one person in this house who does not want to see help given to the unemployed, or care for the sick, or education for the young or honor or troops? who here among us does not want to open wide the door to opportunity? who here among us does not want ever american, ever creed and every color to cross the threshold? you cannot find one person in this building, not one, and that is a true cause for celebration. [ applause ] >> now, we have a lot to build on. that being said, this is ...

How much we mean it, in a few years time i hope that the people will say of this 115th congress that we didnt pay lip service to this beautiful american idea, that we made it a reality for everyone. we are not here to be, we are here to do. we are here to improve peoples lives. improve our economy, restorrest self-government. as your speaker, i intend to keep this pace running at full speed. when i came to this job i pledged to restore order. hold regular house and senate conferences because onl...

President, a new chance to work toward a more perfect union for all of our arguments and all of our differences we are all united by a deep, abiding love of our country. [ applause ] >> it is this slender sturdy thread that holds us together, thats why when the votes are counted and the people have spoken, we all accept the verdict. we come back from the campaign trail and pack up the yard signs and today as one body he pledge allegiance to one flag, the red, the white and the blue. [ applause ]...

Constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic, bear true faith and allegiance to the seem without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that you will well and faithly discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god? >> i do. >> congratulations you are all now members of the 115th congress! [ applause ] so there you have it, the elev 115th house. the democratic leader, nancy pelosi, i thought the speaker took the high r...

To. >> you did hear chuck shumer, the manor -- minority leader, we said we cannot afford a twitter presidency, im quoting him, what does that mean to you. >> i think we have a twitter presidency and a twitter speaker of house because it was a republican caucus that was trying to undo the office of ethics and yet with a simple tweet the president elect was able to scuttle that, but we have to remember that came from the caucus, the republican caucus and in effect the leader, the speaker was unabl...

The house of representatives has acted. they have officially re-elected paul ryan as speaker of the house 115th house. no surprise there. lets bring back our panel. david, cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. >> paul ryan will be the speaker. he has a tough act even though the republicans are the majority in the house and the senate and will take over the white house on january 20th, there will be a lot of issues out there that will require finess and skill. >> with his own troops and with...

Battles that will come. and in what i think -- the part to me that was very significant that i take away is -- i mean, paul ryan and the republicans clearly see this as an opportunity, no surprise there. but they are n going to be hesitant. i think thats the challengeor democrats. this is not going to be a party that i think is going to kind of walk through the tulips. they are going to be very aggressive on multiple fronts in multiple areas. >> and what we were just watching by the way while yo...