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Mejia sworn in, filling Sherrill’s seat and further narrowing GOP House majority
Mejia’s swearing-in leaves Speaker Mike Johnson able to lose only one Republican vote on party-line measures, as the House stands at 217-214.
- On Monday, New Jersey Democrat Analilia Mejia was sworn into the House to represent the Garden State's 11th Congressional District, narrowing the GOP majority in the lower chamber.
- Mejia, a top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders , won the special election last week, succeeding New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who resigned last November to prepare for her first term as governor.
- The partisan breakdown now stands at 217 Republicans, 214 Democrats, one independent, and three vacancies, with colleagues welcoming Mejia with chants of "Si, se puede."
- Speaker Mike Johnson can now afford only a single GOP defection on party-line votes, complicating efforts to pass legislation funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid the Homeland Security shutdown.
- Republican leaders hope to pass GOP-only Homeland Security funding soon, while special elections scheduled for June 2 and June 16 in California will determine the fate of two vacant seats.
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Mejia sworn in, filling Sherrill’s seat and further narrowing GOP House majority
Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-N.J.) was officially sworn in to represent the Garden State’s 11th Congressional District on Monday, further narrowing the GOP majority in the lower chamber. Mejia, a top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign, defeated Republican Joe Hathaway in a special election last week to succeed New Jersey Gov. Mikie…
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