Nancy Pelosi, a force on Capitol Hill for decades, to retire from Congress

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46% : To her allies, she was simply the most effective legislative general of her generation.She helped marshal Democratic opposition to George Bush’s plan to privatize social security and was one of the highest-profile critics of the US invasion of Iraq, a stance that eventually helped her party retake the House in 2006 and lift her to the speakership in 2007.As speaker, Pelosi guided House Democrats through moments of extraordinary consequence: the 2008 financial crisis, the passage of Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act in 2010 – her greatest legislative achievement – and, in her final years of leadership, sweeping climate and infrastructure measures under President Biden.Her tenacity – and self-assuredness – was legendary.

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