The House gained its newest Democratic member on Wednesday, bringing the party’s caucus back to 213 members and narrowing Republicans’ slim majority to just two votes amid a tense government spending showdown.
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) was sworn into the lower chamber after winning a special election to fill the seat once held by former Rep. George Santos (R-NY). In winning the seat, Suozzi flipped the district back into Democratic control, slightly chipping away at the GOP’s power.
“Mr. Speaker, I never thought I’d be back here, but the Lord works in mysterious ways,” Suozzi, who previously served in Congress, said after Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) administered the oath of office. “And God made a way when there was no way.”
The former congressman said he was delivering a message from his New York constituents to the chamber to
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