Shut up and give her the gavel, you idiot!

[mcar]

[Hekate]

1. LOL. TODAY, he wants bipartisanship!

[niyad]

2. oh, come on. you don't expect him to do the decent thing, do you? he knows this is bascially

his last stint in the limelight

[onenote]

8. Its just SOP. Happens every time a new speaker is sworn in

Pelosi made a similar set of remarks when she handed over the gavel to Paul Ryan.

[3catwoman3]

14. IIRC, she handed it over to Boehner.

Ryan became speaker after Beohner retired.

[onenote]

15. She handed it Boehner in 2011 and 2013 and to Ryan in 2015 and 2017

The minority leader always hands the gavel to the speaker at the start of a new Congress.

2011:

2013:

2015:

2017: https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-remarks-before-passing-gavel-to-speaker-paul-d-ryan-0

[OnDoutside]

3. She's laughing at him !

[BumRushDaShow]

4. You took the words right outta my mouth!

[mcar]

10. GMTA

[BumRushDaShow]

12. ...

[dubyadiprecession]

5. Then take that gavel Nancy, and smack him in the head with it!

[a kennedy]

6. Bravo.....

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. let me guess -- Ryan is milking the moment

Granny starver wants people to ignore his record while playing saint for the camera?

[mcar]

9. It was McCarthy

bloviating.

[onenote]

11. Ryan is gone. He's not in Congress anymore

As is tradition, the minority leader hands the gavel to the Speaker. So it's McCarthy.
Pelosi handed the gavel to Boehner and then she did it again when Ryan became speaker.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. thanks

I had it in my head that old Speaker hands the gavel to new Speaker. I claim fever as my excuse.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. He was doing a lot of loud sniffling. Maybe a bit of coke, ...

... to help him get through his little speech.

[mcar]

17. He was a sanctimonious jerk