A Conversation with House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives in the 113th Congress.  She served as the first woman Speaker of the House from 2007 to 2011, and she is also the first woman in American history to lead a major political party in Congress.  Leader Pelosi has led House Democrats for a decade and has represented San Francisco, California's 12th District, for 26 years.  In October, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the American women's rights movement.