Pelosi shattered the marble ceiling and leaves a historic leadership legacy
Pelosi led during highly pivotal moments in recent U.S. political history.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shattered the so-called "marble ceiling" in Congress during her two decade career as a leader in those halls.
Hers has been a career of firsts – the first woman to be elected speaker of the House – and she occupied a particularly high profile position during some of the most pivotal and, often volatile, moments in recent American political history.
Her tenure has spanned the Iraq War, a financial crisis "from the depths of hell" as Pelosi later described it, sweeping legislation to regulate Wall Street, expanding health insurance coverage to millions of Americans, a nuclear
