During the 111th Congress, Pelosi was the driving force behind several of Obama's major initiatives which proved controversial, so the Republicans campaigned against Pelosi and the Democrats ' legislation with their " Fire Pelosi Bus Tour " and regained control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections.

The Republicans campaigned against Pelosi and the Democrats ' legislation with their " Fire Pelosi Bus Tour "

In regard to Representative Charles Rangel's ( D-NY ) plan to introduce legislation that would reinstate the draft, Pelosi stated that she did not support such legislation.

Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ( D-CA ) stated: " Congress vigorously rejects any claim that the president has the authority to pocket veto this legislation and will treat any bill returned to the Congress as open to an override vote.

In February 2010, Mike Honda and Rep. Jared Polis spearheaded a letter to President Obama, Majority Leader Reid, and Speaker Pelosi urging the inclusion of LGBT families in any comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

In June 2007, Representative Steve King introduced legislation that would prohibit then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi from drawing on Federal funds to travel to foreign states which the U. S. deems to sponsor terrorism.

* 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer

: At the close of the 20th century, 31 men and woman of Italian descent were serving in the U. S. Congress and Senate – including Nancy Pelosi, who was the first woman in American history to become Speaker of the House.

The highest ranking Italian American politician is currently Nancy Pelosi ( D-CA ), who became the first woman and Italian American Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

Pelosi voted in favor of keeping the travel restrictions on American citizens to Cuba, until the President has certified that Cuba has released all political prisoners, and extradited all individuals sought by the U. S. on charges of air piracy, drug trafficking and murder.

The American Civil Liberties Union's Congressional Scorecard has given Pelosi a lifetime rating of 92 % for her voting record on civil liberties.

In mid-July 2008, two days after President George W. Bush stated that Congress was ineffective and said, " This is not a record to be proud of, and I think the American people deserve better ", Pelosi responded by calling the president " a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the war, on the economy, on energy, you name the subject " and that Congress had been " sweeping up after his mess over and over and over again ".

Pelosi is a board member of the National Organization of Italian American Women.

Additionally, Pelosi served for 13 years as a board member of the National Italian American Foundation ( NIAF ).

In 2008 he supported passing the FISA bill granting telecommunications companies immunity from prosecution for their involvement in warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, including his sending a letter to Speaker Pelosi encouraging her not to fight the bill.

Pelosi quoted President John F. Kennedy ’ s commencement speech to American University in 1963:

The Council on American Islamic Relations joined 50 other organizations, including Amnesty International, the Sikh Coalition, the Japanese American Citizens League and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in signing a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi comparing the hearings to those held by Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and calling them " divisive and wrong ", and " an affront to fundamental freedoms "

" When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Republicans were using fillibuster tactics to block measures to withdraw American troops from Iraq, Cafferty declared: " Baloney, Madam Speaker.

In February 2008, Out & Equal ’ s Executive Director, Selisse Berry wrote in an open letter to Congress and Nancy Pelosi, " We believe that in these times of international crisis ( and at all times ), the military has a duty to recruit and retain the most qualified people, foster genuine teamwork, and set an example that ALL American citizens matter.

Pelosi is Italian-American and was born Nancy Patricia D ' Alesandro in Baltimore, Maryland, the youngest of six children of Annunciata M. " Nancy " ( née Lombardi ) and Thomas D ' Alesandro, Jr., who was a Democratic party U. S. Congressman from Maryland and a Mayor of Baltimore.

Pelosi was involved with politics from an early age.

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

On January 5, 2007, reacting to suggestions from President Bush's confidantes that he would increase troop levels in Iraq ( which he announced in a speech a few days later ), Pelosi joined with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to condemn the plan.

In November 2011, 60 Minutes alleged that Pelosi and several other member of Congress had used information they gleaned from closed sessions to make money on the stock market.

This resolution was removed from a military spending bill for the war in Iraq by Pelosi on March 13, 2007.

Pelosi received a 100 % rating from the Human Rights Campaign for the 107th, 108th, and 109th sessions of Congress, indicating that she voted in agreement with HRC's slate of pro-gay legislative issues.

In a speech at the AIPAC 2005 annual conference, Pelosi said that " for too long, leaders from both parties haven't done enough " to put pressure on Russia and China who are providing Iran with technological information on nuclear issues and missiles.

In 1992, after the redistricting from the 1990 Census, Pelosi ran in, which now covered the San Francisco area.

* Trinity Graduates Win Re-election: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi ' 62 Poised to Become Speaker, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius ' 70 Wins Second Term from Trinity Washington University, November 8, 2006

* Rolling With Pelosi, from Newsweek, October 23, 2006

* Pelosi mines ' California gold ' for Dems nationwide: Personal skills, wide network of wealthy donors help party's House leader gather millions, from sfgate. com, April 3, 2006

* Pelosi rides high, from The Economist, Feb 22, 2007

Featuring interviews from the likes of Stephen Colbert, Newt Gingrich, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Peter Jackson, acclaimed scholars, and others, the program delved further into the Heroic Epic concept and the influences of mythology, and other motifs that were important in making Star Wars the standard of movies and other series for years to come, such as sins of the father and redeeming the father, coming of age, exiting the ordinary world, and others that all led to the defining " modern mythology " of our time.

On April 23, 2008, he received the Congressional Gold Medal from President George W. Bush, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

For four years, from 1962 to 1966, Hoyer was a member of the staff of United States Senator Daniel Brewster ( D-Maryland ); also on Senator Brewster's staff at that time was Nancy Pelosi, who would later become a leadership colleague of Hoyer as she served as Minority Leader and Speaker of the House.

Reportedly, Towns withdrew because of a lack of support from Nancy Pelosi who feared that he would not be a sufficiently aggressive leader of Democrats in an anticipated struggle with incoming committee chair Republican Darrell Issa.

Described as " a favorite of the House Democratic leadership ," he maintains a close relationship with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ; her daughter Christine Pelosi served as his chief of staff from 2001 to 2005.

* Nancy Pelosi ( D ), from June 2, 1987

The convention also offers workshops on how to be effective in government and campaigning, and prominent speakers from the national Democratic party ( previous speakers have included Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, members of Congress, and Cabinet members ).

The most recent version, re-introduced on May 6, 2009, drew bipartisan support from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as the endorsements of Amnesty International, Google, Human Rights Watch, Reporters without Borders,

The campaign contributed to outspoken support from 22 Democratic Senators, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Chair of the Democratic National Convention Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Caroline Kennedy and nine other co-chairs of President Obama's reelection campaign, and more than 40, 000 Americans who added their names to Freedom to Marry's online petition.