US President Pelosi to Address Ghanaian Parliament Wednesday

General News on Friday, July 26, 2019

Source: rainbowradioonline.com

2019-07-26

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.

The majority leader of the Ghanaian Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, made his point of view known when he presented the House's work on Friday.

Brief profile

Ms. Pelosi is a member of the Democratic Party. She has been President of the US House of Representatives since January 2019.

She 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 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), and then, when the district boundaries were redefined after the 1990 census, the eighth district (1993-2013). She has led the House's democratic chambers since 2003 (the first woman to head a party in Congress), holding two positions each as President (2007-2011 and 2019 to date) and Parliamentary Minority.

Leader (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.