john baener will now become speaker of the house. jennifer davis reports now from washington, d.c. >> reporter: outgoing speaker nancy pilosi will stay on as the party's leader. there will been great debate among the rank and file. but house democrats overwhelmingly chose her. despite her party's mid-term election losses. >> i am proud to be part of this leadership team. our consensus is that we go out there listening to the american people. >> reporter: pilosi didn't have everyone's support. 43 voted against her. >> she is the face that defeated us in this last election. and it seems to me that at some point in time you have to put your personal agenda and ambitions aside for the good of the country. >> reporter: there was no descents among house gop members who voted to make minority leader john baener the new house speaker. but the top republican isn't so happy about the democrats still in charge of this lame duck session. >> i would be remiss if i didn't discuss concern about the priorities on the other side of the aisles. >> rep

john baener will now become speaker of the house. jennifer davis reports now from washington, d.c. >> reporter: outgoing speaker nancy pilosi will stay on as the party's leader. there will been great debate among the rank and file. but house democrats overwhelmingly chose her. despite her party's mid-term election losses. >> i am proud to be part of this leadership team. our consensus is that we go out there listening to the american people. >> reporter: pilosi didn't have everyone's support. 43 voted against her. >> she is the face that defeated us in this last election. and it seems to me that at some point in time you have to put your personal agenda and ambitions aside for the good of the country. >> reporter: there was no descents among house gop members who voted to make minority leader john baener the new house speaker. but the top republican isn't so happy about the democrats still in charge of this lame duck session. >> i would be remiss if i didn't discuss concern about the priorities on the other side of the aisles. >> rep

. >> house republican leader john baener of ohio is in line to be the next speaker of the house.e promised the president he will be honest with him. and the two pledge to work together. >> outgoing speaker of the house nancy pilosi says today she has no regrets. but she also said that watching so many democratic seats fall to republicans was difficult. there has been much speculation that pilosi would step away from her leadership roll if the house fell to republicans. nancy pilosi has not decided what to come next. she could seek to be minority leader. pilosi plans to discuss her options with the democratic caucus and her family and then pray over her decision. >> for nancy pilosi and her party the losses are deep and wide. but here in california it's a different story as long-time senator barbara boxer won a fourth term. today her opponents conceded the defeat and made a few remarks while boxer did not appear in court. rita williams has our report. >> reporter: a national turn to the right did not include california's liberal lion, even though she was in the republican cross ye

. >> house republican leader john baener of ohio is in line to be the next speaker of the house.e promised the president he will be honest with him. and the two pledge to work together. >> outgoing speaker of the house nancy pilosi says today she has no regrets. but she also said that watching so many democratic seats fall to republicans was difficult. there has been much speculation that pilosi would step away from her leadership roll if the house fell to republicans. nancy pilosi has not decided what to come next. she could seek to be minority leader. pilosi plans to discuss her options with the democratic caucus and her family and then pray over her decision. >> for nancy pilosi and her party the losses are deep and wide. but here in california it's a different story as long-time senator barbara boxer won a fourth term. today her opponents conceded the defeat and made a few remarks while boxer did not appear in court. rita williams has our report. >> reporter: a national turn to the right did not include california's liberal lion, even though she was in the republican cross ye