US EditionNancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection to Congress after nearly 40 years in Washington
- On Thursday, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced she will not seek reelection to the U.S. House, saying `I will not be seeking reelection to Congress` and will step down in January, 2027.
- Personal and political forces pushed Pelosi to decide, including this month's election, Proposition 50, a generational shift ahead of next year, and Paul Pelosi's ongoing recovery from his 2022 attack.
- Pelosi's tenure included leading the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Dodd‑Frank, and two impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, shaping Democratic policy for nearly four decades.
- The race to replace Pelosi is already on, with Scott Wiener, California state senator, and Saikat Chakrabarti, progressive political operative, running or considering campaigns, triggering a succession battle in San Francisco and questions about her Capitol Hill leadership role.
- Looking ahead to next year, Pelosi's retirement marks the end of an extraordinary era and will reshape Democratic leadership after she led the Jan. 6 special committee and produced its 1,000‑page report.
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Two days after her beloved Democratic Party showed it still has plenty of fight left by battering Donald Trump’s Republicans at the polls all over the country, Nancy Pelosi, 85, announced her retirement from Congress Thursday.There ought to be monuments erected in Washington D.C., to honor this great woman. You can wipe the damn smirk off your face.I’m dead serious about this.After raising her five children to adulthood, because the children — A…
Pelosi plans to retire in 2027 after 39 years in congress
WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as the powerful speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said on Thursday that she will not run for reelection to Congress in 2026, ending the four-decade career of a progressive Democratic icon often vilified by the right.
Pioneering U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi won’t seek reelection in 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection to the U.S. House, bringing to a close her storied career as not only the first woman in the speaker’s office but arguably the most powerful in American politics.
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Nancy Pelosi’s career ends as it began. She entered Congress in 1986 during the Reagan administration and is ending it under the most influential Republican president since the Gipper. On Thursday she released a six-minute video announcing her retirement in 2027 from Congress, the latest octogenarian to depart it. No sooner did she announce that
Nancy Pelosi ends storied career in Congress, remembered as longtime ally of Jewish community
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced on Thursday that she would not seek reelection, ending a nearly 40-year career in Congress and earning plaudits across a wide spectrum of Jewish voices, from J Street to AIPAC and many in the San Francisco Jewish community who have worked with her since the 1980s. Pelosi, who is 85, rose to become the first and only female speaker of the House, a position she held from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023, …
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