46 Facts About House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

1. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says she has the votes to become the next House speaker.

2. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told CNN this week she's "100 percent confident" she'll be the next speaker of the House.

3. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi plans to run for speaker of the House, a position she held from.

4. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi discussed the gains in the House and in Democratic governorships, and called the.

5. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi held a press conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday, hours after Democrats recaptured the House in the midterm elections Tuesday night.

6. Since then, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has enjoyed overwhelming support in her political career, collecting 76 and 77 percent of the vote in California's 5th congressional district for the 1988 and 1990 Race for US House of Representatives.

7. In January 2018, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi referred to Trump's 2018 State of the Union Address as a performance that was without serious policy ideas that both parties could collaborate on.

8. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has stated that she now opposes the interrogation technique of waterboarding.

9. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi supports reform in marijuana laws, although NORML's deputy director Paul Armentano said that she and other members of Congress hadn't done anything to change the laws.

10. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says "My religion compels me—and I love it for it—to be against discrimination of any kind in our country, and I consider [the ban on gay marriage] a form of discrimination.

11. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi states that her Catholic faith is behind her position on LGBT rights such as same-sex marriage, despite the fact that the Catholic Church teaches that marriage is between one man and one woman.

12. In March 2018, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that "There is no greater political accomplishment in the 20th Century than the establishment of the State of Israel.

13. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi emphasized that "a strong relationship between the United States and Israel has long been supported by both Democrats and Republicans.

14. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has never faced a serious challenger to her left in her district.

15. In 2002, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi opposed the Iraq Resolution authorizing President Bush to use military force against Iraq, while stating that Iraq, like "other countries of concern", had WMDs.

16. In June 2018, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi visited a federal facility used to detain migrant children separated from their parents and subsequently called for the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

17. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the Democrats would be unified as putting "a stake in the heart of this monstrous bill.

18. On March 10, 2017, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi stated that Democrats would continue battling Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act but would be willing to form a compromise measure in the event that Republicans were unable to pass a compromise bill and reached out for bipartisan support.

19. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has blocked efforts to revive offshore oil drilling in protected areas, reasoning that offshore drilling could lead to an increase in dependence on fossil fuels.

20. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has widely supported conservation programs and energy research appropriations.

21. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has supported the development of new technologies to reduce US dependence upon foreign oil and remediate the adverse environmental effects of burning fossil fuels.

22. In August 2017, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she supported the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials from the Capitol Building.

23. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi opposed the welfare reform proposed by President Bush as well as reforms proposed and passed under President Clinton.

24. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi stands in favor of increased background checks for potential gun owners, as well as the controversial banning of assault weapons.

25. In February 2009, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi met with her bishop, Archbishop George Hugh Niederauer of San Francisco, and with Pope Benedict XVI as a result of comments she made to Tom Brokaw on Meet the Press that many observers felt inaccurately portrayed Church teaching on the subject of abortion and the beginning of life.

26. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and earlier attempts at similar bans, and voted against the criminalization of certain situations where a minor is transported across state lines for an abortion.

27. In July 2015, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she was convinced Obama would have enough votes to secure the Iran nuclear deal, crediting the president with having made a "very strong and forceful presentation of his case supporting the nuclear agreement with Iran" and called the deal "a diplomatic masterpiece.

28. In a February 15, 2007, interview, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi noted that Bush consistently said he supports a diplomatic resolution to differences with Iran "and I take him at his word".

29. In 2008, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said: "For years, I have opposed the embargo on Cuba.

30. In October 2008, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi commended the European Parliament for its "bold decision" to award the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Chinese dissident and human rights activist Hu Jia.

31. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was a founding member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but left in 2003 after being elected Minority Leader.

32. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi denied the allegations and called the report "a right-wing smear.

33. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Congress had "a moral duty to the brave women and men coming forward to seize this moment and demonstrate real, effective leadership to foster a climate of respect and dignity in the workplace.

34. In a press conference, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi responded to the criticism by saying, "I respect any opinion that my members have but my decision about how long I stay is not up to them.

35. On November 14, 2012, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced she would remain on as Democratic leader.

36. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been credited for spearheading President Obama's health care law when it seemed that it would go down in defeat.

37. Prior to the US 2006 midterm elections, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced a plan for action: If elected, she and the newly empowered Democratic caucus would push through most of its program during the first hundred hours of the 110th Congress' term.

38. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi strongly opposed the plan, saying there was no crisis, and as minority leader she imposed intense party discipline on her caucus, leading them to near-unanimous opposition to Bush's proposal, and subsequent defeat of the proposed plan.

39. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi supported her longtime friend John Murtha of Pennsylvania for the position of House Majority Leader, the second-ranking post in the House Democratic caucus.

40. On November 16, 2006, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was unanimously chosen by her caucus as the Democratic candidate for Speaker, effectively making her Speaker-elect.

41. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi represents one of the safest Democratic districts in the country.

42. In 1976, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was elected as a Democratic National Committee member from California, a position she would hold until 1996.

43. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi became a friend of one of the leaders of the California Democratic Party, 5th District Congressman Phillip Burton.

44. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is expected to run for Speaker of the House of Representatives on the opening of the 116th US Congress on January 3rd, 2019.

45. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is the first woman, the first Californian, and the first Italian-American to lead a major party in Congress.

46. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi served as the House Minority Whip from 2002 to 2003, and was House Minority Leader from 2003 to 2007.