Pelosi’s remarkable run to come to an end

Nancy Pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as speaker of the House, will retire after this Congress, ending a ceiling-shattering, 38-year congressional career.

Pelosi remade the speakership in two separate stints in the office, wielding the gavel and consolidating power in ways other House leaders failed to master in recent decades.

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