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Of the 56 people who have served as speaker of the House over the past 235 years, 32 served multiple terms; seven of them served nonconsecutive terms: Frederick Muhlenberg, Henry Clay, John W. Taylor, Thomas Brackett Reed, Joseph W. Martin Jr., Sam Rayburn, and Nancy Pelosi. Altogether, there have been 65 occasions on which a new speaker took ...
Nancy Patricia Pelosi (/ p ə ˈ l oʊ s i / pə-LOH-see; née D'Alesandro; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who was the 52nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.
A speaker election is generally held at least every two years; the House has elected a Speaker 129 times since the office was created in 1789. [2] Traditionally, each political party's caucus/conference selects a candidate for speaker from among its senior leaders prior to the vote, and the majority party's nominee is elected.
Nancy Pelosi has been re-elected as Speaker of the House, making her the leader of the House's slim Democratic majority for a fourth term. Pelosi won re-election by a narrow vote of 216 to 209 ...
Pelosi was injured on a trip to Luxembourg and was admitted to a hospital for evaluation, her office said on Friday. Pelosi, 84, was the first woman to serve as speaker of the House and had also ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi was injured on a trip to Luxembourg and has been admitted to a hospital for evaluation, her office said in a ...
In the 2006 midterm elections, the Democratic Party regained control of the House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House, becoming the first woman to hold the position. President Bush acknowledged Pelosi as the first woman in that position in the opening of his 2007 State of the Union Address. [49]
After her election in 2018, Ocasio-Cortez took a turn sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s chair and holding the Speaker’s gavel in May 2019, presiding over the House for about an hour as part of a ...