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...inspiration for a lot of people. What it means is, I have to uphold the highest ethical standards and to have the most open and bipartisan Congress, to do so in a way that makes women proud and makes sure that pretty soon we'll have another woman Speaker of the House...
TIME Will your performance as Speaker have implications for Hillary Clinton if she runs for President...
Alaska elected Republican Sarah Palin its first female Governor. Democrat Carol Shea-Porter will become the first woman to represent New Hampshire in the House. The new Congress will be 16% female--an all-time high. And the House is expected to have its first female Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who said, "Maybe it takes a woman to clean House...
Herding cats. Pushing a string. Making yourself heard in a preschool where no one has had a nap. The analogies that have been used to describe what it's like to be in charge of Congress have always suggested that the titles Speaker of the House and Senate majority leader were someone's idea of a joke. But now that the high fives and jubilant photo ops are behind them, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have to run the place. Whether anything is actually accomplished on Capitol Hill over the next two years will depend largely on the skills these...
Alexandra Pelosi is uniquely positioned to judge how the President and the future Democratic House Speaker will get along. At 36, she is the youngest of Nancy Pelosi's five children, and her famous HBO documentary, Journeys with George, was a backstage "video diary" of George W. Bush's 2000 campaign. She was the first to introduce the two. Her inside take on their relationship...