Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House, said that she will step down after two decades as the Democratic Party’s leader in the chamber.
More personally, just weeks ago, her husband of nearly 60 years,by a hammer-wielding intruder at the family’s home in San Francisco.
“She’s been at the center of the country’s biggest crises, initiatives and showdowns for a quarter-century,” Pelosi biographer Susan Page said. “People can certainly disagree with her policies and her tactics. She hasn’t done much to temper the partisan tone in Washington. But what you can’t disagree with is this: She has gotten things done, even when almost everybody else thought they were impossible.
The attempt to sack the Capitol led Pelosi to start a record second impeachment of Trump during his final days in office. In her speech Thursday, Pelosi referenced her first trips to the Capitol with her father, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., when he represented Maryland in the House. “When I first came to the floor at six years old, never would I have thought that someday I would go from homemaker to House Speaker,” she said.
“For a woman, she’s opened the doors wider for every last one of us,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., who grew emotional talking about Pelosi. “And it’s not pleasant being on the other side of her, but I thank her for everything that she’s done.”When former progressive Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., launched a campaign for the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee in 1994, Pelosi helped him whip votes to win the gavel, even though he wasn’t the most senior member of the panel.
But Pelosi’s longevity ultimately became a liability. Before the midterm elections, some of her fellow Democrats, including moderate Reps. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, openly called forThe calls continued in the days after the election — even with control of the House undecided.
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