Nancy Pelosi has been simply the best speaker of the House of the modern era. She is...
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., delivers remarks from the House Chambers of the U.S. Capitol Building on Nov. 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Pelosi spoke on the future of her leadership plans in the House of Representatives and said she will not seek a leadership role in the upcoming Congress. Nancy Pelosi has been simply the best speaker of the House of the modern era. She is probably the best speaker in U.S. history.
If she brought something to the House floor, everyone knew she had the votes. Over and over again, she found creative ways to package the Democratic Party’s priorities in a manner that allowed something people thought was a lost cause to wind up on the president’s desk. Most notably, she managed to save the Affordable Care Act when a filibuster-proof supermajority had evaporated in the Senate by adopting some components of the bill using a procedural maneuver known as reconciliation.
In 2020, confronted with an indifferent Senate and an out-to-lunch president, Pelosi insisted on a forceful government response to the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout. Was she faultless? No. Beyond occasional missteps, the most warranted criticism of her tenure was that she continued a long-term shift toward greater centralization in the House, leaving rank-and-file members of both parties with fewer substantive responsibilities. Pelosi perfected the modern, powerful speakership invented by Democrat Tip O’Neill during the administrations of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.Since O’Neill, most speakers were either too aggrandizing or too passive .
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