JUST IN: 'I will not seek re-election to Democratic leadership in the next Congress,' Speaker Pelosi says, adding that she will continue to represent the people in San Francisco in the U.S. House.
More personally, just weeks ago, her husband of nearly 60 years,by a hammer-wielding intruder at the family’s home in San Francisco.
“She’s been at the center of the country’s biggest crises, initiatives and showdowns for a quarter-century,” Pelosi biographer Susan Page said. “People can certainly disagree with her policies and her tactics. She hasn’t done much to temper the partisan tone in Washington. But what you can’t disagree with is this: She has gotten things done, even when almost everybody else thought they were impossible.
The attempt to sack the Capitol led Pelosi to start a record second impeachment of Trump during his final days in office. “She is the single best at the inside game that I’ve ever seen or served with,” said Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa. “She remembers every time a person has been with her on a vote and every time a person has been against her, and that memory is very important in that type of a position.”
When former Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., a progressive, launched a campaign for the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee in 1994, Pelosi helped him whip votes to win the gavel, even though he wasn’t the most senior member of the panel. The key, he said, was her knowledge of members’ interests and personalities.
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