Pelosi won reelection this November and will be sworn in next month for her 20th term in office. She was born in Baltimore, where her father was mayor and a longtime political powerbroker in the city.

In 2007, she became the first woman to serve as House speaker. Pelosi stepped down from leadership after the 2022 midterms but remained a member of Congress. She won reelection in November.

Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the Clintons and others quickly flooded social media to praise the president following his decision to suspend his reelection campaign. Comments from the former ...

While Pelosi has largely endorsed the primacy of seniority in deciding committee leadership — an idea that helped her win and maintain ... was pushed out of a reelection bid by party leaders ...