Acting speaker orders Pelosi to vacate Capitol office she held as former speaker

Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , holds the gavel after adjourning the 117th Congress on Jan. 3, 2023, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. In one of his first moves as speaker pro tempore, Rep. Patrick T. McHenry ordered former House speaker Nancy Pelosi to “immediately” vacate her hideaway office in the Capitol by on Wednesday.While lawmakers who are not in leadership don’t usually have offices in the Capitol, Pelosi was allowed to keep one as former speaker.

In a statement, Pelosi said “this eviction is a sharp departure from tradition” and noted that, when she was speaker, she gave former speaker Dennis Hastert “a significantly larger suite of offices for as long as he wished.”“Sadly, because I am in California to mourn the loss of and pay tribute to my dear friend Dianne Feinstein, I am unable to retrieve my belongings at this time,” Pelosi said.

As of Tuesday night, it was unclear which office spaces McHenry and McCarthy would occupy, given how quickly McCarthy’s ouster — and McHenry’s appointment — happened. After the vote to remove him was over, McCarthy marched back to the speaker’s office, which is located next to the Rotunda. About an hour or so later, McHenry made his way there, too. Later that night, McCarthy was seen walking out of the speaker’s office, and the Capitol building, with a box under his arm.

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