Yahoo News Explains: Is Nancy Pelosi going to be House speaker again?

Nancy Pelosi is running a fierce campaign to be elected speaker of the House of Representatives. The current minority leader of the House — and only woman to be speaker — has been in the political sphere for more than four decades. Pelosi, who started as a member of the Democratic National Committee in 1976, slowly worked her way up to the House after a 1987 special election.

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