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Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Nancy Pelosi was re-elected to serve as House Speaker on January 3, , the only woman to hold the position. Since first running for office at age 47, Pelosi has managed to become the most powerful woman in Washington.
It's been a long road, but with impressive fundraising skills and a political sixth sense, Pelosi has managed to break gender barriers and break her way into the notorious old boys' club on Capitol Hill. Here's how Pelosi became the most powerful female politician in US history. As a young girl, she managed her father's book of people who owed him political favors.
She attended her first Democratic National Convention at age Here she is at age 20 with John F. With the House Democratic Caucus, Pelosi continues to focus on the need to create jobs in America and prevent them from being shipped overseas. Speaker Pelosi was the architect of the landmark Affordable Care Act which has guaranteed protections for all Americans with pre-existing medical conditions, ended annual and lifetime limits on health coverage, and provided affordable health coverage for tens of millions more Americans while lowering health care costs over the long term.
Additional key legislation passed into law included the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to restore the ability of women and all workers to access our judicial system to fight pay discrimination; legislation to provide health care for 11 million American children; national service legislation; and hate crimes legislation.
As Speaker, Pelosi has made the climate crisis her flagship issue, enacting comprehensive energy legislation in that raised vehicle fuel efficiency standards for the first time in 32 years and making an historic commitment to American home grown biofuels. The proceedings moved at lightning speed, with lawmakers voting just one week after violent pro-Trump loyalists stormed the U. Capitol after the president's calls for them to "fight like hell" against the election results.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump as she pushes the vice president and the Cabinet to invoke constitutional authority force him out, warning that Trump is a threat to democracy after the deadly assault on the Capitol.
Pelosi said in a statement to colleagues that she spoke with Gen. Mark Milley "to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes" for nuclear war. She said Milley assured her steps are in place.
If the 25th amendment, allowing for a cabinet majority to replace a president deemed unable to discharge his duties, is not invoked, Congress is prepared to move forward with impeachment, she said. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that if President Donald Trump wasn't removed from office, the House may move forward with a second impeachment.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Congress' certifying of Biden's win will show the world it won't back down. Pelosi made her comments as the House reconvened after being shut down by unruly pro-Trump protesters. She said that every four years the ritual provides an example to the world of American democracy. Nancy Pelosi, 80, from the Democratic party, secured votes in a tight contest against Republican Kevin McCarthy, who got support from Congressmen. Have you read these stories?
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Pelosi rose up in the party ranks, serving as a California representative to the Democratic National Committee from to She also served as the state and northern chair of the California Democratic Party. In , Pelosi made the leap to public office, winning a special election for California's Eighth District, which includes San Francisco. Pelosi has been a strong supporter of increased funding for health research and for other health care and housing programs and initiatives.
She is also an advocate for human rights and the environment. In , Pelosi was selected to be the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, making her the first woman in history earn the honor. Four years later, she again broke new ground for women in U. After the Democrats won majorities in both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, Pelosi was chosen to become the first woman to take the post of speaker of the House. As the leader of the Democratic Party in the House under a Republican president, Pelosi was sometimes a divisive figure.
A vocal critic of President George W. Bush 's stance on the war in Iraq, she advocated for the withdrawal of troops from the region. Pelosi found herself at the center of a controversy in when the CIA asserted that she had been made aware of its use of waterboarding of terrorism suspects—a technique that Pelosi had vocally opposed.
Pelosi denied the CIA's claims. Pelosi lobbied for the development of better-paying jobs, access to college education and affordable health care for all, and revised energy policy that focused on cleaner, more efficient domestic alternatives. After the election of Barack Obama in , Pelosi was in a position to work with a president of the same party.
She was instrumental in pushing for the health care reform legislation that became the Affordable Care Act Obamacare in , a position that earned her more criticism from the GOP. Pelosi remained House speaker until November , when Republicans gained control of the House and elected John Boehner to the role, relegating Pelosi to minority leader.
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