Pennsylvania Rep. Conor Lamb sworn into Congress
Source: CNN
Nearly one month after his upset victory in Pennsylvania's 18th District special election, Democrat Conor Lamb was sworn into the House of Representatives on Thursday evening by outgoing Speaker Paul Ryan.
Lamb will serve out the remaining eight months of former Republican Rep. Tim Murphy's term.
Lamb was the first, and so far only, Democrat to flip a House seat out of the seven special elections held during Donald Trump's presidency. There are two more special elections scheduled between now and November.
"We are all in this together, we need solidarity with each other," Lamb said during his first remarks on the House floor, in a call for more bipartisanship.
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(and I know he will not be perfect because he is servicing his district and their more rightish views and not mine, which is deep blue and a majority-minority district... but he gets us 1 seat closer to taking over the House)
