'As speaker of the House, I have awesome power. As I'm transitioning to a different, new role, I expect to have strong influence.' Nancy Pelosi delivered her last news conference as House speaker before Republicans retake control on Jan. 3.
"As speaker of the House, I have awesome power. As I'm transitioning to a different, new role, I expect to have strong influence. But not on my members but just in terms of encouraging more women, for example, to run ... The speaker of the House is a very big job and just wrapping it up will take time," Pelosi said on Thursday.
"We interact, and I'm just hoping that on Jan. 3 that they'll be expeditiously able to elect a speaker so that we can get on with the work of the Congress," she said. "I think they'll have a speaker. My interest... [is] the integrity of the institution, the strength of and respect that the institution commands."
MORE: In historic address, Ukraine's Zelenskyy tells Congress: 'We are united ... the entire free world' "It's been a momentous week for our democracy," she said. "Yesterday was … my high honor to welcome President Zelenskyy of Ukraine here in the United States Capitol." "When Winston Churchill came here in 1941, the day after Christmas, really within a week and 81 years of today, and he made the case for calling upon America to help fight tyranny and your -- he said at that time: 'We are doing the noblest work in the world, not only defending hearth and homes but the cause of freedom in every land,'" she said.
"The world will see the final report of the bipartisan select committee to investigate Jan. 6 after 18 months of tirelessly defending democracy," she said, thanking the committee's chairman, Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, and Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., for their leadership."The 117th Congress began with a violent assault on our democracy. And now we're here at its conclusions.
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