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    Jackie Calmes: Nancy Pelosi, the GOAT

    by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times Nov 18, 2022 3 minutes
    Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., delivers remarks from the floor of the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Pelosi spoke on the future of her leadership plans in the House of Representatives saying she will not seek a leadership role in the 118th Congress.

    Forget formalities. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the GOAT.

    The 55th individual and the first woman to serve as speaker of the House of Representatives, second in line to the presidency, Pelosi might have an equal among the other speakers in American history — perhaps Sam Rayburn in the mid-20th century or Henry Clay in the 19th — but none were better. In my book, she is the greatest of all time.

    As a former congressional reporter, I can speak personally to the records of eight of those 55 speakers, four

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