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In reply to the discussion: Nancy Pelosi says she'll seek House reelection in 2024, dismissing talk of retirement at age 83 [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to the position she once held, but no longer does. HE is the minority leader/speaker-to-be.
Pelosi has remained in the house but returned to being one of the rank-and-file members whose work is representing their own district in the national congress. Hers is the interests of San Francisco. Yes, unusual for a former leader, but she's always been a remarkable one.
She also requested NO committee assignments, though she was once on powerful Appropriations and others before she became Speaker. Also very unusual, but again, that's her.
I'm among the many who like having her institutional knowledge available to the new leadership, but again, she very deliberately declined to assume even an unofficial advisory role. Unusual, but she's a strong-minded woman of strong principles who felt that was the best way to handle the turning over of power to a new generation.
What you think should be done, right?