Nancy Pelosi

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Baltimore native, will deliver the commencement address at the University of Baltimore law school in May, the congresswoman's office said Wednesday. Pelosi, a California Democrat, will also be awarded an honorary law degree. The former House Speaker gave the keynote graduation address at Goucher College in 2005 and spoke at Hopkins in 2009. Pelosi is the daughter of former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. Her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also served as mayor.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Baltimore native, will deliver the commencement address at the University of Baltimore law school in May, the congresswoman's office said Wednesday. Pelosi, a California Democrat, will also be awarded an honorary law degree. The former House Speaker gave the keynote graduation address at Goucher College in 2005 and spoke at Hopkins in 2009. Pelosi is the daughter of former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. Her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also served as mayor.

WASHINGTON - Rep. Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri has decided to step down as leader of the House Democrats after Republicans scored decisive victories in the midterm elections. An intense race to succeed Gephardt is already under way, with Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the No. 2 House Democrat, expected to seek his post in the face of stiff competition from Rep. Martin Frost of Texas. If Pelosi prevails, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer of Southern Maryland would be in a strong position to replace her as party whip.

WASHINGTON -- She was born in Baltimore, but House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is rooting for San Francisco. Asked which team she will back in the Super Bowl, the daughter of former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. said she would have to side with her adopted home. Pelosi represents a district located within the city of San Francisco. "I'm rooting for the 49ers, I'm not rooting against Baltimore," Pelosi said during a press conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday. "I'm a Baltimore sports fan as my second team… I'm so proud of them, but my constituency is San Francisco.

FOR MARYLAND, Rep. Nancy Pelosi's rise to the second-highest office in the Republican-controlled House had a bittersweet quality. On a vote of 118-95, she became Democratic whip at the expense of another talented Marylander, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer. Mr. Hoyer would certainly have had more power to wield on behalf of this state had he won, but his value to the House and to his Southern Maryland district should be undiminished. Although this is the second time he has failed to win this post, he would not have drawn 95 votes without considerable respect from his colleagues.

Around the narrow streets of Baltimore's Little Italy yesterday, the O'Malley and Ehrlich placards were still hanging proudly in the windows of restaurants and Formstone rowhouses. But no one was talking about the men who duked it out in the race to become Maryland's next governor. Instead, neighbors were buzzing with pride about one of their own, Nancy Pelosi, who is likely to become the nation's first female speaker of the House. They remembered the shy girl who wasn't allowed on a date without one of her five brothers along as chaperone.

Families strolled in under flags of red, white and green. Workers from La Tavola stepped out into the drizzle for a better look. A quartet played Frank Sinatra's "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)." All of Little Italy seemed to have turned out yesterday for what one observer called "The Return of the Prodigal Hon." It was here that Nancy Pelosi learned politics at the knee of her father, Mayor Thomas J. D'Alesandro Jr. On the day after she became the first female speaker of the House of Representatives, a crowd outside her childhood home welcomed her back to the neighborhood.

Amid strawberries and sparkling water, coffee and petit fours, powerful women from all walks of life mingled yesterday at Mellon Auditorium in Washington, awaiting the arrival of Nancy Pelosi, the soon-to-be first female speaker of the House of Representatives, who was being honored at a Women's Tea. Speakers introducing Pelosi, who will be officially sworn in as speaker today, spoke in celebratory, grand language: Because of her, glass ceilings had...

WASHINGTON - In her new memoir, Nancy Pelosi remembers the house where she grew up and the needy who would gather outside. It was Baltimore in the 1940s, and the family home in Little Italy functioned as a district office for her father. "People knew this was where Congressman D'Alesandro lived, and would line up at our door, looking for help," Pelosi writes. "It was the same when my father became mayor. Some people needed work. Others needed a bed in City Hospital or housing in the projects.

?I intend to do everything in my power to make Nancy Pelosi the most successful speaker.? Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, incoming House majority leader ?Let the healing begin.? Rep. Nancy Pelosi, incoming speaker of the House, who had urged Democrats to pick Rep. John P. Murtha for majority leader

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi praised Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski for "opening wide the doors of opportunity for the next generation of women leaders" in a statement Friday to honor the senator's latest milestone: Mikulski will become the longest-serving female in Congress on Saturday. Pelosi, a Baltimore native who attended the same high school as Mikulski -- the institute of Notre Dame -- credited with the Maryland Democrat with leading "the way for the many of us who came to public service after her. " Mikulski will reach 12,858 days of service in Congress on Saturday, surpassing the previous record set by Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, a Massachusetts Republican.

Nancy Pelosi's recent statement that the minuscule decrease in unemployment rate was "good" was almost as outrageous as her statement when the President Obama's health care reform bill passed. Remember? Now we can find out what's in it? How will we ever recover from the mess we're in with that kind of mediocre mentality, and worse yet, leadership? It also squares up with those same types who cannot see the logic in balancing your checkbook and then taking the necessary, responsible actions.

Friday's editorial "Boehner holds the key" (July 15) admonishes the Republican leader to "remember that he is speaker of the entire House not just the tea party wing. " I don't recall reading a heading like that when Nancy Pelosi was speaker of the House. She excluded Republicans from meetings that were held behind closed doors. During the Obamacare debate she told them to vote on the bill so they could know what was in it! She ruled with a iron fist. John Boehner is concerned about the welfare of our country and its people.

Expect an influx of starchily dressed and municipally minded visitors this weekend, as more than 1,100 elected officials and staff members from around the country descend on Baltimore for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. They'll be chatting about computerized manhole covers, new uses for natural gas and the reading skills of third-graders, among other civic matters. And they'll be hashing out a platform on weighty issues such as the military's involvement in Afghanistan and federal budget cuts.

Nancy Pelosi's days as speaker of the House were dwindling in number, but her to-do list was growing: The tax deal President Barack Obama negotiated with Republicans but she was charged with passing? Check. Threats of rebellion within her own Democratic ranks? Quelled. Immigration? Gays in the military? Plenty of time — never mind that clock ticking toward Christmas break and the Jan. 5 start date for the new House that she no longer will lead. But on one afternoon last week, despite the urgent negotiations and the late-night votes, Pelosi seemed as serene as her surroundings: a pale yellow sitting room that is part of the prime Capitol real estate she commands, for now, with power views of the Washington Monument and a collection of photographs that speak to a long and highly personal view of politics, measured not just by election cycles but generational ones.

Divided House Democrats re-elected their leaders to minority party positions in the next Congress, choosing Reps. Nancy Pelosi as leader and Steny H. Hoyer as whip. Perhaps appropriately, given Maryland's status as an island of Democratic blue in a widening sea of Republican red, the state can lay claim to fully half of the top six members of the incoming leadership team. Pelosi was born in Baltimore, and Hoyer represents the southern part of the state. A sixth member, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, represents Maryland's Washington suburbs.

Gov. Martin O'Malley isn't wavering from his support for Sen. Hillary Clinton, but he's not toeing the party line on how superdelegates should vote or on the idea of her fighting all the way to the Democratic National Convention. In an interview yesterday with The Sun's editorial board, O'Malley - one of the first governors to endorse Clinton's bid for president - said he agrees with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that it would be dangerous for superdelegates to overturn the popular vote of Democratic primary voters.

This is Nancy Pelosi's moment. There is no way for the public to know what is going on behind closed doors at the Capitol this week or whether enough votes will emerge to enact health care reform. But if the House speaker were Barry Bonds, this would be like a high fast ball over the plate. She is in her power zone. Ms. Pelosi is not speaker because of her commanding presence, oratorical skills, liberal ideology, sweeping vision or even her magnificent San Francisco district.