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Nancy Patricia Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, is scheduled to address the Ghanaian Parliament on Wednesday, July 31, 2019.
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, leader of the majority and chairman of the Parliament's Affairs Committee, announced it yesterday during the presentation of Parliament's statement of work for the coming week ending 2 August 2019.
Brief profile
Ms. Pelosi is a member of the Democratic Party. She has been President of the US House of Representatives since January 2019.
According to Wikipedia, Ms. Pelosi is the only woman to have held this position and the highest woman elected in the history of the United States.
As Speaker of the House, she is second in the line of presidential succession, immediately after the vice president.
First elected to Congress in 1987, Pelosi is currently in his 17th term as a member of Congress, representing the 12th District of California Congress (since 2013), which includes four-fifths of the city and county from San Francisco.
It originally represented the 5th district (1987-1993), then when the district boundaries were redefined after the 1990 census, the eighth district (1993-2013).
She has been leading House Democrats since 2003 (the first woman to head a party in Congress), holding dual leadership positions each year (2007-2011 and 2019 to date) and House Leader of Minorities. (2003-2007 and 2011-2019), according to whether Democrats or Republicans held the majority.
She was also bad of the House (2002-2003).
In the mid-term elections of 2018, the Democrats took control of the House.
Subsequently, at the convening of the 116th Congress on January 3, 2019, Ms. Pelosi was elected President for the second time, becoming the first former President to return to the position since Sam Rayburn in 1955.
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