I will use my first vote in Congress to remove Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.

Juan Ciscomani · Arizona · Republican

oversight impact 0.78 specificity 0.95 extraction confidence 95%

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Occurrences

Evidence

House Roll Call Vote 4 (2023-01-03) — 118th Congress, 1st Session (2023) Vote Question: Election of the Speaker Vote Type: Yea-and-Nay Member Vote: McCarthy. The same member page also lists earlier speaker votes on 2023-01-03 and 2023-01-04 as McCarthy votes.

His first recorded speaker vote was for Kevin McCarthy, not against Nancy Pelosi, so the promise was not literally carried out as stated.

never same_term

Juan Ciscomani | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Roll Call 2, Vote Question: Election of the Speaker; McCarthy: 203; Ciscomani listed under McCarthy.

Ciscomani's first substantive speaker-election vote in the 118th Congress was for Kevin McCarthy, the Republican alternative to Democratic speakership control.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Roll Call 2
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Roll Call 20, Election of the Speaker; Status: McCarthy; McCarthy: 216; Jeffries: 212; Ciscomani listed under McCarthy.

The final speaker ballot elected McCarthy, with Ciscomani again recorded among McCarthy votes, completing the replacement of Democratic/Pelosi-era speakership control.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Roll Call 20
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117th: Pelosi, Jan. 03, 2021; 118th: McCarthy, Jan. 07, 2023.

The House Historian's official speaker list shows Pelosi as speaker for the 117th Congress and McCarthy elected speaker in the 118th, confirming the succession Ciscomani supported.

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Speakers of the House by Congress
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Assessments

delivered same_term

Ciscomani’s first substantive recorded House vote in the 118th Congress was for Kevin McCarthy for Speaker on January 3, 2023, and he continued voting for McCarthy until McCarthy was elected on January 7, 2023. Although Nancy Pelosi was not herself the opposing nominee on that ballot, the federal campaign promise was plainly about replacing Pelosi’s speakership with Republican control. His vote directly supported that outcome in the term he entered after the 2022 election.

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delivered same_term

Ciscomani’s first House speaker vote in the 118th Congress was for Kevin McCarthy on January 3, 2023. In federal campaign context, the promise meant using his first congressional vote to help replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker with a Republican speaker. Pelosi was no longer the Democratic nominee by that vote, but voting for McCarthy was the relevant procedural act to end Democratic/Pelosi speakership control and elect her Republican successor. This counts as delivered in the same term rather than a literal failure for not casting a vote directly against Pelosi by name.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 93%