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During her first tenure as speaker, Pelosi moved the statue of Robert E. Lee from the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol to the Capitol crypt. [200] In August 2017, she supported an initiative by Senator Cory Booker to have Confederate monuments and memorials removed from the Capitol Building by means of legislation. [201]
Of the 56 people who have served as speaker of the House over the past 235 years, 32 served multiple terms; seven of them served nonconsecutive terms: Frederick Muhlenberg, Henry Clay, John W. Taylor, Thomas Brackett Reed, Joseph W. Martin Jr., Sam Rayburn, and Nancy Pelosi. Altogether, there have been 65 occasions on which a new speaker took ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi strode into the Capitol on Thursday morning dressed in a suffragist-white pantsuit, flanked by top aides as her filmmaker daughter, Alexandra, who has for three decades ...
Democrat Nancy Pelosi became the first female speaker of the House. [3] The House also received the first Muslim (Keith Ellison) [4] [5] and Buddhist (Hank Johnson and Mazie Hirono) [6] members of Congress.
Nancy Pelosi made history as the first woman to serve as speaker of the House. ... US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rips up pages of the prepared speech at President Donald Trump's State of the Union ...
Nancy Pelosi is busy promoting her new book, ... My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House." ... Pelosi made history by becoming the first female speaker in 2007, and in 2019, she ...
House of Representatives Democratic: December 7, 2016: December 2, 2020: 3 years, 361 days Mitzi Johnson Vermont: House of Representatives Democratic: January 4, 2017: January 6, 2021: 4 years, 2 days Crisanta Duran [d] Colorado: House of Representatives Democratic: January 11, 2017: January 4, 2019: 1 year, 358 days KC Becker Colorado: House ...
A nation that’s seen its share of firsts of late — first Black president, first woman heading a major-party presidential ticket, first lying demagogue businessman president, first female vice ...