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Nancy Patricia Pelosi ( / pəˈloʊsi / pə-LOH-see; née D'Alesandro; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.
Apr 16, 2021 · Pelosi ran a tight ship in San Francisco, enlisting her children to stuff mailers and developing the tactics she’d use to level her political enemies. Says one daughter of Pelosi’s offensive ...
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Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro was born in Baltimore, Maryland to a political family. The youngest of six children, her father Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Maryland, and also served as mayor of Baltimore. Her older brother, Thomas D’Aesandro III was also mayor of Baltimore. As a political science student at Trinity Coll...
Pelosi worked as an intern for Democratic Senator David Brewster of Maryland while she was a student in Washington. Now House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was an intern at the same time in that office as well. After moving to San Francisco with her husband, Pelosi became close friends with Congressman Philip Burton, a leader of the California Democr...
Early on in her career on Capitol Hill Pelosi served on the powerful Appropriations and Intelligence Committees. She was elected House Minority Whip in 2001, and the next year became House Majority Whip. She is the first woman to hold both of these positions. In 2006 Pelosi was unanimously chosen by the Democratic Caucus to be Speaker of the House....
In 2011, the news program 60 Minutes accused Pelosi of insider trading, for buying a large share in Visa stock while a bill to limit credit card fees was in the House. Pelosi denied the charges, and later voted for and saw to the passage of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, which bars members of Congress from make financial decisions...
Nadeam Elshani has been Pelosi’s Chief of Staff since the beginning of the year. Originally from Tennessee, Elshani has been working on Capitol Hill since the early 1990’s, when he worked in the mailroom. He worked his way up, serving as press secretary for Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, followed by a time as communications director for...
Nov 17, 2022 · By 1981, she was the Democratic Party chair for the state of California. After her youngest child left for college, Pelosi ran for Congress and was sworn in June 1978. ABC News' Allison Pecorin ...
May 6, 2020 · Nancy Pelosi decided, first, in 1988, she would run for one of these leadership posts, a whip. She stayed at it, eventually was elected the whip. She became the leader of the caucus in 2002.
Jan 2, 2019 · 2 January 2019. By Anthony Zurcher,North America reporter, @awzurcher. Getty Images. When Nancy Pelosi is sworn in as Speaker of the House on Thursday, she becomes not just the third most powerful ...
American politician Nancy Pelosi made history when she became the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007–11; 2019– ). She first joined the House in 1987 after narrowly winning a special election for the seat that had become vacant upon U.S. Rep. Sala Burton's death. Pelosi was reelected in 1988 to a full term, and she easily won subsequent elections in the ...
