Speaker of the House
The Capitol Building
Washington, DC
October 2023
I was chaproning a school trip of students from Germany and we discovered that we were going to be in the Capitol on the day a vote was going to be taken to select a new Speaker of the House. Kevin McCarthy had juts been ousted and four prior votes had been unsuccessful. So the whole country was watching this clown show.
We sat in the balcony and the students wanted to know if there were assigned seats. I didn't know but it was very clear that the left side was for the Democrats and the right side was for the Republicans.
The students pointed out the diversity of gender, race and dress on the left. On the right were old, white men in gray suits and a few women and one black man.
There was lots of grand standing on both sides as people were called to cast their votes. It was easy to see what are the issues for both parties and the German students wanted the Democrat to win. But, regretfully, that isn't what happened.
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