the ispanic member of democratic leadership team in the next congress. the house is returning at noon work.gislative one bill on the calendar today. expandi xpanding apprenticeship opportunities. live coverage at noon here on c-span. . , or facebook.com nancy pelosi spoke to reporters after the times noted that she regained the gavel and became the first person in 60 years to return a speaker after losing the majority. here she is. [video clip] >> i wish you could have seen the nominations and acceptance speeches. then you could have seen the common thread, the unity of our caucus. the values and the vision, the knowledge of our subjects on the strategic thinking. you hear me talk about that all the time. theof it is connected to

hopes and aspirations of americans and working families. that is what unifies us. i'm honored and was emotional earlier because of some of the things that were said in nomination, but also listening to the other nominations as well , not only to the vision but the depth of the commitment, the values of our caucus. i'm thrilled, i'm excited, i to be working with the new president of the united states, joe biden and kamala harris. nancy pelosi, speaker of the house returns in that position, first elected to congress in 1987 to represent the california district. tuesday, kevin mccarthy, republican of california, spoke to reporters after being reelected to that top post.

[video clip] >> you all know that everyone predicted the republicans would lose 15 to 20 seats. not one incumbent lost. on the democrat side, over a dozen lost. much of that could be caused by nancy pelosi holding up covid time defundingg police or wasting their majority on impeachment. republicans always focused on putting the people first before politics and we will continue to do that work and this next congress, we might not be able to schedule the floor, but we will be running the floor. host: kevin mccarthy on tuesday. the hill newspaper, saying they see a path to majority in 2022. they include a quote in therefrom a democrat. one democratic lawmaker said the gop messaging strategy of

linking them to socialism is an area democrats need to better combat and that pelosi could be a liability for vulnerable members. "we are host: your confidence and congressional leadership, stephen, louisville, you are up first. what do you think?

caller: to be honest, i don't have confidence or sympathy in the republicans. care moreaid they about people than anything else. explained to me for a moment how they can have the gall to say that when they themselves rushed a supreme court nomination through before the election simply because they wanted to kill the affordable care act. among other things. that is what your president has done. pro-life.e party of yet we have how many casualties that have succumbed to this disease right now? they have no concept of pro-life. as far as mr. mccarthy bragging about well, the dems lost, let's be on the record. they have 17 seats more than the

republicans do in the congress. we still have two seats up for grabs in georgia. let me tell you something. joe biden, i never dreamed he would win georgia. if he can win georgia, i think that jon ossoff and rev. warnock have just as much of a chance to put those two crooks, the trump apologists, leffler and purdue, they don't have any minds of their own. they can't even get along with people in their own party. look at how they are treating that secretary of state just because they don't like the election. folks, i've got news for you. me jump into tell you that we are going to be talking about georgia with buddy carter and hank johnson, both going to be with us later on in the program. let me ask you, stephen, i understand your criticism of republicans. how about your own party?

are you happy that speaker pelosi will get another term? caller: i have mixed feelings about pelosi. sometimes i like her, sometimes i don't. i did think she did a good job with impeachment. she didn't just move right into it. it wasn't until the stuff with ukraine that she pursue that avenue and went down that road. i think the democrats did tried to pass the heroes act. they tried to work well with republicans. like i said, they are not always perfect. one thing i have an issue within my party has how everything is urban versus rural. excuse me, fdr, clinton, obama, all those men knew how to balance out the interests of labor unions and our brig arians and people of color and intellectuals and i don't understand quite frankly why it is, biden did a good job in