Pelosi: 'To those who strove to deter us from our responsibility, you have failed' FacebookTwitterEmail Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reconvenes a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress has reconvened to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump, hours after a pro-Trump mob broke into the U.S. Capitol and disrupted proceedings.Pool/Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the House chamber in a somber tone Wednesday night, saying the invasion of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob was a shameful assault on democracy. "To those who strove to deter us from our responsibility, you have failed," Pelosi said. "To those who engaged in the gleeful desecration of this, our temple of democracy, American democracy, justice will be done."