
Nancy Pelosi
Democrat · CA-11 · U.S. House
Bio
Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first female elected speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, heading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. Her 20 years as a House party leader are tied with Joe Martin's as the second-longest after Sam Rayburn. Pelosi is in her 20th term, having served in the House since 1987, representing California's 11th congressional district, which includes most of San Francisco. She is the dean of California's congressional delegation.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 39.6 years
- First took office
- 1987 (20 terms)
- Seniority
- 6 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 86
- House Minority Leader · 2011–2019
- Speaker of the House · 2019–2023
- daughter of Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.
- San Francisco, CA · 415-556-4862
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $86.2M – $415.2M
- Liabilities
- $61.0M – $152.0M
- Net worth
- −$65.8M – $354.2M
- Since 2019
- +$38.5M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 65 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Nancy Pelosi's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Nancy Pelosi (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
Do you vote like Pelosi?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Pelosisits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Pelosi's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Eric Swalwell, Fang Fang and Nancy Pelosi’s legacyThe story of disgraced former congressman Eric Swalwell is really a story about Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House, is being celebrated by the media as a heroine, as she retires from a long career in Congress this year. But Swalwell…
New York Post · August 18, 2026
Nancy Pelosi is leaving Capitol Hill. Her team is still calling shotsFormer Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be leaving Congress, but dozens of her longtime staffers are sticking around in the House’s top jobs. The aides who worked for the California Democrat throughout her 39-year congressional career are now running leadership offi…
Biztoc.com · August 17, 2026
The Endless, Maddening Wait for a Woman PresidentI was sitting at the bar of a coffee shop in South Austin, researching the suffragist movement.“Those are old newspaper articles?” the guy next to me asked. He might have been in his thirties. He had a loose hipster haircut and expensive sneakers. “Very cool.…
The New Republic · August 13, 2026
Nancy Pelosi Blames AOC Team for False Narrative of Their ‘Rocky’ Relationship"This is a legislative place. It's not a rally," the Democratic representative from California says The post Nancy Pelosi Blames AOC Team for False Narrative of Their ‘Rocky’ Relationship appeared first on TheWrap.
TheWrap · August 12, 2026
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