Originally featured on Elephant Journal January 3, 2019
If you missed it, today, the best bit of television happened on C-SPAN.
This afternoon, the 116th Congress opened and the United States House of Representatives voted on the next Speaker of the House.
Unsurprisingly, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi will again take the helm in Congress.
Watching the camera pan around the packed chamber may seem like the most boring bit of slow TV you could find—even Netflix wouldn’t pick it up. I mean, come on, it’s C-SPAN.
But that camera revealed more than just a lugubrious roll call vote.
There were the faces of the rising stars on the left, names you’ve probably heard plenty about. Maybe even follow on Instagram. Ocasio-Cortez. Tlaib. Davids. Omar. Haaland. Pressley. Escobar…
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