House Democrats at the inauguration are making a silent statement on health care

Nancy Pelosi.
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Congressional heavyweights from both sides of the aisle made their way to the U.S. Capitol on Friday morning for the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump. While roughly 60 House Democrats are boycotting Trump's inauguration, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the House minority leader, arrived Friday at the Capitol — though not without making a pointed political statement of her own:

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.