Nancy pelosi

Born: March 26, 1940 (age 83) ... (Show more) Title / Office: ... (Show more) Political Affiliation: ... (Show more) Notable Family Members: daughter of Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. daughter of Annunciata ("Nancy") D'Alesandro married to Paul Pelosi (1963–present) mother of Nancy Corinne Prowda mother of Christine Pelosi mother of Jacqueline Pelosi mother of Paul Pelosi, Jr. mother of Alexandra Pelosi sister of Thomas D'Alesandro III sister of Franklin D. Roosevelt D'Alesandro sister of Nicholas D'Alesandro sister of Hector D'Alesandro sister of Joseph T. D'Alesandro ... (Show more) Role In: ... (Show more) Show Less Nancy Pelosi, née Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro, (born March 26, 1940, Nancy D’Alesandro—whose father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., was a politician and Phil Burton. Burton died in 1983 and was succeeded by his wife, Sala, who, shortly before her death in 1987, urged Pelosi to run for the seat. She narrowly won a special election and was reelected in 1988 to a full term. Pelosi easily won subsequent elections in her overwhelmingly Democratic district. Pelosi developed a reputation as a shrewd politician, and she steadily rose within the party, becoming minority whip in 2002. Later that year she was elected minority leader, and, when she took office in 2003, she became the first woman to lead a party in Congress. Using what she referred to as her “mother of five” voice, Pelosi began pushing for unity among the Following the midterm elections in November 2006, the Democrats...

By 06/06/2023 08:28 PM EDT • • • • Link Copied • • • • Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took to the field Tuesday evening to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington Nationals’ “Night OUT” themed game, Major League Baseball’s longest-running LGBTQ celebration. The former House speaker was picked for “her long-standing commitment to fighting for the rights and dignities of the LGBTQ+ community,” the team said in the announcement Monday. “I’ll always be a @SFGiants fan, but tonight my pitch was to celebrate the vibrancy of our LGBTQ+ communities with @TeamDCSports and @Nationals. Happy Pride!” Pelosi tweeted after the toss . The event comes after another MLB team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, faced backlash after inviting — and then, at the behest of conservative Catholics, uninviting — a satirical drag group, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, to their Pride Night. A portion of ticket sales will be donated to Team DC, an organization “that educates the LGBTQ community on the benefits of individual and team sports participation,” the team said in the announcement.

WASHINGTON— “Now we’re going to have some fun,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) says enthusiastically, winning a giggle from her daughter. It’s a little past 6:30 p.m. on a recent Thursday. The former House speaker is sitting in a packed black SUV with a reporter on her left, a driver and a member of her security detail in the front and her daughter Christine and two top congressional aides squeezed into the backseat. The group is en route from the Swedish Embassy, where Pelosi was the keynote speaker at an event supporting Ukraine, to the St. Regis Hotel for “Thank You, Madam Speaker,” a reception celebrating her legacy. (Bonnie Cash/For The Times) The Times spent a day with Pelosi and her team to see how the former House speaker is adjusting to life outside of leadership. She began it with ice cream for breakfast and finished it church-style dancing to a performance of the Resistance Revival Chorus. “You never can dance too much,” she advises. This is Pelosi in her newest chapter, living her best life without the stresses of having to steer congressional Democrats past political pitfalls and through policy quicksand. Her colleagues say she’s essentially a national congresswoman — a woman who represents a single district but has a platform that extends far beyond the borders of San Francisco — and is someone other Democrats look to for advice and wisdom. Pelosi, 82, insists that she’s not looking over the shoulder of the new leadership team she paved the way for. She ...

Politics A timeline of Pelosi’s career in Congress By Paul Kane | Jan 1, 2023 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) broke Congress’s glass ceiling as the first woman to hold the top position in the House. She announced in November that she would not seek reelection as the House Democratic Caucus’s top leader, ending one of the most consequential leadership tenures in American political history. Rich Lipski/The Washington Post When she’s sworn in to the House on Tuesday for another term, it will be the first time Pelosi won’t be in a leadership position in 22 years. Here’s a look back at her career from 1987 to 2022. Rich Lipski/The Washington Post Congressional candidate Nancy Pelosi waves at her campaign headquarters in San Francisco on April 7, 1987. Paul Sakuma/AP Paul Sakuma/AP Spring 1987. Pelosi wins the nomination to succeed the late Democratic representative Sala Burton in a hard-fought primary, relying on establishment support to beat back challenges from the left, and goes on to win the full special election in June 1987. On one of Pelosi’s first nights out on Capitol Hill after getting sworn in, Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) ushers her to a dinner with a rat pack of young Democrats — Charles E. Schumer, Richard J. Durbin, Leon Panetta, Barbara Boxer and others — and says, “Meet the future first woman speaker of the House.” Paul Sakuma/AP Rep. Ben Jones (D-Ga.), Pelosi and Rep. John Miller (R-Wash.) hold a banner with the words “To those who died for democracy in...