Grace Panetta

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Nancy Pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced Thursday that this term in Congress will be her last.

Pelosi, 85, has been in the House for 35 years and served two stints as House speaker, from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.

“It seems prophetic now that the slogan of my very first campaign in 1987 was ‘a voice that will be heard,’” Pelosi said in a video released Thursday morning addressing her San Francisco constituents. ” It was you who made those words come true. It was the faith that you had placed in me, and the latitude that you had given me, that enabled me to shatter the marble ceiling and be the first woman speaker of t

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