Nancy Pelosi

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced on Thursday that she will step down and not seek a Democratic leadership role in the upcoming Congress. "When I first came to the floor at 6 years old, never would I have thought that someday I would go from homemaker to…

With only a few weeks left to pass two high-profile antitrust bills targeting Big Tech, the White House is privately pushing the offices of the Democratic leaders in Congress to pass the legislative package during the lame duck session, according to sources familiar with the matter. In private meetings with…

NEW YORK (AP) — A day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced she would step aside, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York launched a history-making bid Friday to become the first Black person to helm a major political party in Congress as leader of the House Democrats. In a letter to…

Reps. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, on Friday formally announced his bid to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-N.Y.) as the House Democratic leader. The big picture: Jeffries, a Brooklyn native and former…

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she will be stepping down from House leadership — and the speakership — after 15 years. AFP Representative Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat and the first woman to hold the post of speaker of the House, announced on 17 November, that she will step…

Politics Pelosi attended Kennedy's inauguration as a college student in 1961. This week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she would step down from party leadership, opening the door for a new generation of Democratic lawmakers to lead the party. The 82-year-old will not retire, and will continue to represent her…

Rep. Nancy Pelosi with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images House Democrats want their longtime leader and the first female speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to break history one more time — and stay intimately involved in House operations. Why it matters: Pelosi has a store of institutional…

Politics The future leaders of House Democrats are shuffling into place. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in September. Samuel Corum/Getty Images With this kind of stagecraft, it was unlikely Speaker Nancy Pelosi would go the ho-hum route and announce she was running for another term as House minority leader.…

Kari Lake is not backing down from the race for Arizona governor, but she will have to stop using Tom Petty’s music. Lake, who lost the gubernatorial race, has refused to concede and signaled she may challenge the result. She also released a promotional video set to Petty’s hit song…

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will not seek re-election to the leadership of the Democratic caucus. Her move makes way for a younger generation of leadership in the party and as conservative Republicans take control of the chamber in January. Ms Pelosi, 82, was…