House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced last year she would not seek reelection as the House Democratic caucus’s top leader. Here’s a look back at her career from 1987 to 2022.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke Congress’s glass ceiling as the first woman to hold the top position in the House. She announced in November that she would not seek reelection as the House Democratic Caucus’s top leader, ending one of the most consequential leadership tenures in American political history.When she’s sworn in to the House on Tuesday for another term, it will be the first time Pelosi won’t be in a leadership position in 22 years.
On one of Pelosi’s first nights out on Capitol Hill after getting sworn in, Rep. George Miller ushers her to a dinner with a rat pack of young Democrats — Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Leon Panetta, Barbara Boxer and others — and says, “Meet the future first woman speaker of the House.”Nancy Pelosi, the front-runner in the special election for the California's 5th Congressional District, gets a kiss from her husband, Paul Pelosi, after they cast their ballots on April 7, 1987.
Pelosi muscles President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act into law. After the Senate lost its filibuster-proof majority, many considered a “skinny” alternative to the bill in an effort to get bipartisan support. Instead, Pelosi took charge and brought the bill to passage.Pelosi is congratulated by her staff after the passage of the health care bill on March 21, 2010. The final vote was 220 to 211.
After getting whisked away to Fort McNair as insurrectionists storm the Capitol, Pelosi again begins impeachment proceedings against Trump.A week after the attack on the Capitol, she holds the vote and draws bipartisan support as 10 Republicans vote to impeach Trump, the most bipartisan impeachment vote in American history.Pelosi thanks members of the National Guard from the Speakers Balcony on May 24, 2021, as the last of the National Guard troops who had been deployed at the U.S.
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