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    Pelosi to step down as House Democratic leader

    WASHINGTON — After months of speculation about her future, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday she will not seek to lead House Democrats for another term but will remain in Congress. The decision — capping a 35-year career in which Pelosi became the most powerful female member of Congress in U.S. history — followed her party’s narrow loss of the chamber in last week’s midterm ...
    by Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times Nov 17, 2022 5 minutes
    Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., arrives to deliver remarks from the floor of the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

    WASHINGTON — After months of speculation about her future, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday she will not seek to lead House Democrats for another term but will remain in Congress.

    The decision — capping a 35-year career in which Pelosi became the most powerful female member of Congress in U.S. history — followed her party’s narrow loss of the chamber in last week’s midterm election.

    Pelosi is also abiding by a 2018 agreement with fellow Democrats that she would step down from leadership by the end of 2022 to make way for a new generation.

    “For me, the hour’s come for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus that I so deeply respect,” Pelosi said in a House floor speech.

    President Joe Biden, who spoke to Pelosi on Thursday morning, later called her the “most consequential speaker of the House of

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