Newly initiated House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) just spoke on the House floor and took the oath of office, saying that “the people voted to end business as usual and today we begin to carry out their instructions.”An (unsurprisingly) teary Boehner first symbolically accepted the gavel from outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who got some chuckles when she noted that this gavel “is larger than most gavels here, but the gavel of choice by Speaker Boehner.”
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