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Nancy has had many accomplishments and achieved so much such as the American recovery and reinvestment act (saving many jobs), lowering health care costs, Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, (which expands educational opportunities and reforms the financial aid system to save billions of taxpayers’ dollars), and lastly another major thing she did was repealing the discriminatory "Don't ask, Don't Tell" policy which prohibited gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.

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Despite first running for office at age 47, House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has managed to become the most powerful woman in Washington.

It's been a long road, but with staggering fundraising skills and a political sixth-sense, Pelosi has managed to break gender barriers and force her way into the notorious Old Boys Club on Capitol Hill.

Here's how a San Francisco housewife became part of the Washington elite.

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The Stunning Life And Career Of Nancy Pelosi

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Despite first running for office at age 47, House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has managed to become the most powerful woman in Washington. It's been a long road, but with staggering fundraising skills and a political sixth-sense, Pelosi has managed to break gender barriers and force her way into the notorious Old Boys Club on Capitol Hill.

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Around 1976-1981,Nancy started her career as a volunteer for the Democratic Party. She hosted and aided with the campaigns. By 1981, she was the Democratic Party Chair for the state of CA. She worked behind the scenes to recruit candidates and raise money. By 1984 she is San Francisco's Democratic National Convention Host Committee Chairwomen. On June 2,1987, she wins a special election, ultimately filling in the spot for Sala Burton. Finally, in 1987-1993 Represents California's 5th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives.

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Representing the 11th District of California

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Birth place: Baltimore, Maryland

Birth name: Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro

Father: Thomas D'Alesandro, Baltimore mayor and US congressman

Mother: Annunciata (Lombardi) D'Alesandro, a homemaker

Marriage: Paul F. Pelosi (1963-present)

Children: Nancy, Christine, Jacqueline, Paul and Alexandra

Education: Trinity College, Washington, DC (Now Trinity Washington University), A.B. in Political Science, 1962

Other Facts:
First woman to lead a major congressional party.

Chair, Northern California Democratic Party.

1981-1983 - Chair, California State Democratic Party.

1984 - San Francisco Democratic National Convention Host Committee Chairwoman.

1985-1986 - Finance Chairwoman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

June 2, 1987 - Wins a special election in California's 5th Congressional District, filling the seat of Representative Sala Burton.

1987-1993 - Represents California's 5th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives.

January 12, 1991 - Votes against authorizing use of force in Iraq (House Resolution 77).

1993-2013 - Represents California's 8th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives.

2001 - Becomes the first woman to be elected House minority whip.

October 2002 - Votes against authorizing use of military force in Iraq.

November 14, 2002 - Is elected House minority leader by fellow Democrats, and becomes the highest-ranking woman in congressional history.

November 7, 2006 - Democrats win a majority in the House. Pelosi becomes the speaker of the House when the new congress begins in January 2007. She is the first female speaker of the House and the first woman to be as high in the line of succession to the presidency (second behind the vice president).

January 4, 2007-January 3, 2011 - Speaker of the House.

April 1-6, 2007 - Pelosi leads a bipartisan delegation from the House on a trip through the Middle East. The group travels to Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, meeting with heads of state.

November 4, 2008 - Is re-elected with more than 70% of the vote.

February 18, 2009 - Meets with Pope Benedict XVI.

March 21, 2010 - Pelosi leads the House in passing the health care reform bill proposed by President Barack Obama.

2013-present - Represents California's 12th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives.

January 3, 2013 - Pelosi challenges John Boehner for speaker of the House but loses 220-192. She instead is re-elected as House minority leader.

November 4, 2014 - Is re-elected with more than 82% of the vote.

January 3, 2017 - Is re-elected as House minority leader, with four of her colleagues voting for someone else for the top Democratic post following a year that saw both parties questioning their congressional leadership.

January 18, 2018 - VH1 announces that Pelosi will be a guest judge on season 3 of "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars."

March 7, 2018 - Donates her speaker's gavel, among other items, to the Smithsonian in honor of Women's History Month.

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Birth place: Baltimore, Maryland Birth name: Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Father: Thomas D'Alesandro, Baltimore mayor and US congressman Mother: Annunciata (Lombardi) D'Alesandro, a homemaker Marriage: Paul F. Pelosi (1963-present) Children: Nancy, Christine, Jacqueline, Paul and Alexandra Education: Trinity College, Washington, DC (Now Trinity Washington University), A.B.

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A mother, a grandmother, and a leader who is focused on strengthening America's hard-working families.

Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 115th Congress. From 2007 to 2011, Pelosi served as Speaker of the House, the first woman to do so in American history. As the Democratic Leader, Pelosi is fighting for bigger paychecks and better infrastructure for America's middle class families. In 2013, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the American women's rights movement.

For 29 years, Leader Pelosi has represented San Francisco, California's 12th District, in Congress. She has led House Democrats for more than 12 years and previously served as House Democratic Whip.

Under the leadership of Pelosi, the 111th Congress was heralded as "one of the most productive Congresses in history" by Congressional scholar Norman Ornstein. President Barack Obama called Speaker Pelosi "an extraordinary leader for the American people," and the Christian Science Monitor wrote: "...make no mistake: Nancy Pelosi is the most powerful woman in American politics and the most powerful House Speaker since Sam Rayburn a half century ago."

Working in partnership with President Obama, Speaker Pelosi led House passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in early 2009 to create and save millions of American jobs, provide relief for American families, and provide a tax cut to 95 percent of working Americans. With the House Democratic Caucus, Pelosi continues to focus on the need to create jobs in America and prevent them from being shipped overseas.

Speaker Pelosi achieved passage of historic health insurance reform legislation in the House which establishes a Patients' Bill of Rights and will provide insurance for tens of millions more Americans while lowering health care costs over the long term. The new law provides patients with affordable insurance choices, curbs abuses by the insurance industry, strengthens Medicare, and reduces the deficit by more than $100 billion over the next 10 years.

In the 111th Congress, Speaker Pelosi also led the Congress in passing strong Wall Street reforms to rein in big banks and protect consumers as well as the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which expands educational opportunities and reforms the financial aid system to save billions of taxpayers' dollars. Additional key legislation passed into law included the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to restore the ability of women and all workers to access our judicial system to fight pay discrimination; legislation to provide health care for 11 million American children; national service legislation; and hate crimes legislation. In late 2010, Pelosi led the Congress in passing child nutrition and food safety legislation as well as repealing the discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which prohibited gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.

Pelosi has made energy security her flagship issue, enacting comprehensive energy legislation in 2007 that raised vehicle fuel efficiency standards for the first time in 32 years and making an historic commitment to American home grown biofuels. In 2009, under her leadership, the House passed the landmark American Clean Energy and Security Act - a comprehensive bill to create clean energy jobs, combat climate change, and transition America to a clean energy economy. The legislation was blocked by Republicans in the United States Senate, but sent a strong signal to the world about the United States' commitment to fighting the climate crisis.

A leader on the environment at home and abroad, Pelosi secured passage of the "Pelosi amendment" in 1989, now a global tool to assess the potential environmental impacts of development. In San Francisco, Pelosi was the architect of legislation to create the Presidio Trust and transform the former military post into an urban national park.

In continuing to push for accountability and transparency in government, under Speaker Pelosi, the House passed the toughest ethics reform legislation in the history of the Congress, including the creation of an independent ethics panel, and increased accountability and transparency in House operations, including earmark reforms. As Speaker, Pelosi led the fight to pass the DISCLOSE Act in the House, which fights a corporate takeover of U.S. elections and ensures additional disclosure; she continues to fight for this legislation today.

Additional key accomplishments signed into law under the leadership of Speaker Pelosi include: an increase in the minimum wage for the first time in 10 years; the largest college aid expansion since the GI bill; a new GI education bill for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; and increased services for veterans, caregivers, and the Veterans Administration.

Pelosi comes from a strong family tradition of public service. Her late father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., served as Mayor of Baltimore for 12 years, after representing the city for five terms in Congress. Her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also served as Mayor of Baltimore. She graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. She and her husband, Paul Pelosi, a native of San Francisco, have five grown children and nine grandchildren.

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Nancy Pelosi Biography - life, family, childhood, children, parents, name, history, school, mother

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Pelosi was born Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro on March 26, 1940, in Baltimore. She was the last of six children, and the first daughter. The family lived on Albemarle Street in Little Italy. Their neighborhood was a loyal Democratic Party stronghold in Maryland politics.

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All U.S. congressional districts, including the 12th Congressional District of California, are holding elections in 2018.

Heading into the election the incumbent is Nancy Pelosi (D), who was first elected in 1987.

California's 12th Congressional District is located in the western portion of the state. It is made up of a part of San Francisco County.

For more information about the top-two primary election, click here.

Campaign contributions

The table below contains data from FEC Quarterly October 2017 reports. It includes only candidates who reported at least $10,000 in campaign contributions as of September 30, 2017.[8]
Democrats

District history

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Nancy Pelosi (D) defeated Preston Picus (Independent) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Pelosi and Picus defeated Bob Miller (R) and Barry Hermanson (G) in the top-two primary on June 7, 2016.

U.S. House, California District 12 General Election, 2016

Party

Candidate

Vote %

Votes

Democratic

Nancy Pelosi Incumbent

80.9%

274,035

Total Votes 338,845

Source: California Secretary of State

U.S. House, California District 12 Primary, 2016

Party

Candidate

Vote %

Votes

Democratic

Nancy Pelosi Incumbent

78.1%

169,537

Independent

Preston Picus

7.7%

16,633

Total Votes 217,042

Source: California Secretary of State

The 12th Congressional District of California held an election for the U.S. House of Representatives on November 4, 2014. Incumbent Nancy Pelosi (D) defeated John Dennis (R) in the general election.

U.S. House, California District 12 General Election, 2014

Party

Candidate

Vote %

Votes

Democratic

Nancy Pelosi Incumbent

83.3%

160,067

Total Votes 192,264

Source: California Secretary of State

Pivot Counties

There are no Pivot Counties in California. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.

In the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton (D) won California with 61.7 percent of the vote. Donald Trump (R) received 31.6 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, California voted Republican 53.33 percent of the time and Democratic 43.33 percent of the time. In the five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016, California voted Democratic all five times. In 2016, California had 55 electoral votes, which was the most of any state. The 55 electoral votes were 10.2 percent of all 538 available electoral votes and were 20.4 percent of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election.

Presidential results by legislative district

The following table details results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections by state Assembly districts in California. Click [show] to expand the table. The "Obama," "Romney," "Clinton," and "Trump" columns describe the percent of the vote each presidential candidate received in the district. The "2012 Margin" and "2016 Margin" columns describe the margin of victory between the two presidential candidates in those years. The "Party Control" column notes which party holds that seat heading into the 2018 general election. Data on the results of the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections broken down by state legislative districts was compiled by Daily Kos.

In 2012, Barack Obama (D) won 58 out of 80 state Assembly districts in California with an average margin of victory of 38.4 points. In 2016, Hillary Clinton (D) won 66 out of 80 state Assembly districts in California with an average margin of victory of 40.3 points. Clinton won 11 districts controlled by Republicans heading into the 2018 elections.

In 2012, Mitt Romney (R) won 22 out of 80 state Assembly districts in California with an average margin of victory of 12.2 points. In 2016, Donald Trump (R) won 14 out of 80 state Assembly districts in California in 2016 with an average margin of victory of 13 points.

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California's 12th Congressional District election, 2018 - Ballotpedia

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All U.S. congressional districts, including the 12th Congressional District of California , are holding elections in 2018. Heading into the election the incumbent is Nancy Pelosi (D), who was first elected in 1987. California's 12th Congressional District is located in the western portion of the state.

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Nancy Pelosi was born on March 26, 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. Nancy was born  as Nancy D'Alesandro. Nancy went to school at Trinity College, located in Washington D.C. While she went to school there she met her husband, Paul Pelosi and got married. In their marriage, they had 5 children: Nancy Corinne, Christine, Jacqueline, Paul, and Alexandra .Nancy was born into a family that was already heavily involved in politics. Her father served in Congress and was the mayor in Baltimore for 12 years. Later, her brother became the mayor in Baltimore.

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Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor for 8 hours, reading personal 'dreamer' stories and citing the Bible, to force Republicans into action on immigration. The speech was intended to oppose a 2-year budget deal that fails to address immigration, which the House must pass Thursday to avoid a government shut-down.