Calmes: Nancy Pelosi's indelible mark (via latimesopinion )
Even Republicans have marveled at Pelosi’s prowess in achieving landmark legislation on healthcare, civil and human rights, environmental advances, economic opportunity and more.I never intended to run for leadership.”
Still, she said, “I never thought that we would have a woman speaker. I thought, ‘The country is so much more ready for a woman president than these guys are ready for a woman speaker.’ ” Among her most formidable challenges over two decades as House Democratic whip, leader and speaker: contending with the Catholic hierarchy. She counts as her “biggest disappointment, the closest I ever came to tears,” the church’s lobbying to kill the Affordable Care Act — the law Pelosi considers her most important achievement — because the bishops opposed its coverage for contraception.
“Thank God for the nuns,” Pelosi said, describing them as “fabulous,” “aggressive” and “outspoken” in support of contraception coverage and of the healthcare law.
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