My first vote in Congress will be to remove Nancy Pelosi as Speaker and put us on a new course.
I will use my first vote in Congress to remove Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.
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.
Roll Call 2, Vote Question: Election of the Speaker; McCarthy: 203; Ciscomani listed under McCarthy.
Roll Call 20, Election of the Speaker; Status: McCarthy; McCarthy: 216; Jeffries: 212; Ciscomani listed under McCarthy.
117th: Pelosi, Jan. 03, 2021; 118th: McCarthy, Jan. 07, 2023.
Assessments
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.
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.