Speaker Pelosi at the time took 25 days to administer the oath of office to her. It wasn't just Julia. The Pelosi president extends, even precedent extends even further because when Pat Ryan and Joe Sempolinski were elected during an August recess, they waited 21 days to administer the oath to those to Rep elects because they were not in session. We are not in legislative session. The chronology is important. Rep. Rohalba won her race in I think it was the last week of September after we had already gone out of session. (26:05–26:24)
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Asserts that Pat Ryan and Joe Sempolinski waited 21 days to be sworn in due to not being in session.
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