Nancy Pelosi, Congress and House
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For more than six decades, Nancy Pelosi has shared her life and career with her steadfast partner and husband, Paul Pelosi.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced in early November that she would not run for re-election in 2026, ending her decades-long tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives. The decision means investors will no longer get public disclosures on what stocks her husband Paul Pelosi is buying and selling,
Ms. Pelosi, who broke the House’s glass ceiling after learning rough-and-tumble politics in the D’Alesandro family business in Baltimore, always counseled her troops to “know their why” — their true motivation for entering politics and government.
Pelosi was a hell of a lot better counting votes as speaker of the House than anybody I ever saw,” Joe Scarborough said Thursday.
But in yet another early morning diatribe, Trump, 79, hit out at the 85-year-old Democrat, who was instrumental in impeaching him: firstly in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress; and later for inciting the January attack on the US Capitol in 2021.
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.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to step aside after nearly four decades in Congress kicks off a wide-open contest to replace her at a time when her home city of San Francisco is roiled in