Rube Reaper
Elite
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who announced she’d step down from leading the House Democrats on Thursday, made history as the first woman to ever hold the position and was a political target — and thorn in the side — of Republicans for the better part of two decades. All that frequently obscured her mastery of her job and her singular skills as a legislator, according to Molly Ball, a Time political correspondent and author of the biography Pelosi.
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Nancy Pelosi was really, really good at her job
Pelosi’s legacy as speaker is defined by formidable wins on policy including the Affordable Care Act.
