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.
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