Speaker Pelosi's portrait was introduced at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, as former and current colleagues from both parties paid tribute to her leadership.
In 2007, Pelosi became the first woman elected speaker of the House and has led her fellow Democrats for nearly 19 years, previously serving as House Democratic whip. In 2013, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, considered the birthplace of the movement for U.S. women's rights.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi on Wednesday applaud at her portrait unveiling ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Former House Speaker John Boehner paid tribute to his successor, and was praised for showing respect to his former political opponent.to the crowd about his onetime political opponent, and shared that Pelosi has served as a role model for his daughters.
"Madame Speaker, you and I have disagreed politically on many things over the years, but we were never disagreeable to each other," Boehner said on stage."As you might have heard me say before, you can disagree without being disagreeable. "No other speaker of the House in the modern era, Republican or Democrat, has wielded the gavel with such authority or with such consistent results," the former speaker continued."Let me just say, you are one tough cookie."
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