After a highly productive two-decade tenure as the House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi will hand the reins to younger members of her party. ed_kilgore writes on her legacy
takes the gavel for the 118th Congress in January. Pelosi had pledged to step down as leader by the end of the 117th Congress back in December of 2018; it helped her head off a leadership challenge.
Instead, in a statement on the House floor sprinkled with allusions to the fragility of democracy, the patriotic duties of lawmakers , and the need for national unity, Pelosi announced she would indeed not stand for reelection as leader. She did not clarify her views on her successor in her remarks, but it is well known that she will back New York’s, currently chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, the No. 4 position in the leadership hierarchy, to give the Caucus fresh and younger leadership.
Thus ends a 20-year Pelosi era among House Democrats. She was the first woman to serve as legislative party leader in either chamber, and as she noted in her announcement, the House is a far more diverse institution now. Four years after she became minority leader, the 2006 Democratic landslide began her first stint as Speaker, which was interrupted by the GOP landslide of 2010. She took back the gavel four years ago after the 2018 midterms.
There will be time to more fully assess Pelosi’s tenure as leader when the current Congress ends. But it’s noteworthy that during the crucial months in which Presidents Obama and Biden began their administrations, nearly all the legislative trouble occurred in the Senate, not the House. Some of that disparity, of course, stemmed from the Senate’s peculiar rules, including the availability of the filibuster.
in her own house and then the midterm elections that reflected a deeply polarized nation. But her legacy as leader is secure.Daily news about the politics, business, and technology shaping our world.
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