Nancy Pelosi to Retire From Congress
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New House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hugs her granddaughter during her swearing in ceremony Jan. 7, 2003, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. This is the first day of the 108th Congress and members of the House of Representatives will be sworn in and leadership elections will be held.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Thursday she will retire from Congress at the end of the term in January 2027, putting a bookend on a nearly four-decade, history-making tenure in the House.
Nancy Pelosi retires after 38 years in Congress, leaving a huge vacuum in San Francisco's Democratic politics. The race to replace her is on.
The daughter of a politician, she didn’t expect to become one. But once she ran for office in 1987, there was no stopping her.