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General News on Friday, July 26, 2019
Source: starrfm.com.gh
2019-07-26
Nancy Pelosi, President of US House
Nancy Pelosi, US politician and president of the US House of Representatives, will address the Ghanaian Parliament next Wednesday.
The former California representative will be part of a group of US lawmakers who will travel to Ghana next week before Friday's parliamentary break.
As Speaker of the House, Pelosi ranks 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 Congressman. It represents the 12th Congressional District of California (since 2013), which includes four-fifths of the city and San Francisco County. It originally represented the 5th district (1987-1993), then, when the district boundaries were redrawn after the 1990 census, the 8th district (1993-2013).
She has been leading House Democrats since 2003 (the first woman to head a party in Congress), holding two positions each as President (2007-2011 and 2019 until now) and as the Leader of a House. parliamentary minority (2003-2007 and 2011-2019), depending on whether Democrats or Republicans held a majority; She was also bad of the House (2002-2003).
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