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Pelosi steadily rose through the ranks of the House Democratic Caucus to be elected House minority whip in 2001 [1] and elevated to House minority leader a year later, [2] becoming the first woman to hold each of those positions in either chamber of Congress.
The electoral history of Nancy Pelosi spans more than three decades, from the mid-1980s to the present. A member of the Democratic Party in the United States , Nancy Pelosi was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a 1987 special election , after the death of Congresswoman Sala Burton that February.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position in the new Congress, a pivotal realignment making way for a new generation of leaders after Democrats lost ...
As the minority party has one less leadership position after losing the speaker's chair, there may be a contest for the remaining leadership positions. Nancy Pelosi is the most recent example of an outgoing Speaker seeking the Minority Leader post to retain the House party leadership, as the Democrats lost control of the House in the 2010 ...
After almost two decades leading the House Democratic Caucus, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Thursday that she will step down from her leadership role in the next congressional session.
The newly sworn-in 117th Congress voted Sunday to re-elect Nancy Pelosi to another term as speaker of the House of Representatives.
Nancy Pelosi of California, the outgoing speaker, retired from the position and announced her support for Hakeem Jeffries of New York.. During the run-up to the 2019 speaker election, Nancy Pelosi, who had been the Democratic Caucus' leader and nominee in every speaker election since 2003, [28] struck a deal with several caucus members in which she promised that she would retire from the ...
The clerk is elected every other year when the House organizes the newly elected Congress. The role is currently filled by the Hon. Cheryl L. Johnson, who was sworn in by Nancy Pelosi In February ...