Representative Nancy Pelosi

The New Washington

The New York Times

News, Politics

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The Democrat from California has held the highest governmental position of any woman in U.S. history and is one half of Washington’s hottest power couple — “Chuck and Nancy.” She talked with Carl Hulse about protecting one of her signature policy victories, the Affordable Care Act, as well as the 2018 election, her love of chocolate and more.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, this is the new Washington.
0:03.5	I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:04.8	Today, Representative Nancy Pelosi.
0:08.4	I accept this gavel.
0:09.8	It's a historic moment for the Congress.
0:12.4	It's a historic moment for the Congress. It's an historic moment for the women of America.
0:16.0	We honor the service of our troops by asking the difficult questions about this war.
0:22.0	For too long, this government has followed a right-wing
0:25.4	ideology of anything goes, no supervision. Social security, Medicare, the
0:31.8	Affordable Care Act. It's here to stay.
0:34.0	Most Americans don't know who their member of Congress is,
0:37.0	but they will now when they find out that you voted to take away their health care.
0:43.0	But I do have boundless energy and I do attribute it largely to chocolate, very, very, very dark chocolate.
0:52.0	Early in the day, the better end to being an Italian American
0:55.8	which I think is a source of energy that people just don't understand.
0:59.3	Carl Hall's who did you talk to this week?
1:01.2	Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California,
1:05.2	the Democratic leader, and of course the former
1:07.5	speaker and first woman speaker in history.
1:09.8	Turns out to be a very big fan of chocolate it seems.
1:13.4	Yeah, that's all she eats.
1:14.8	I'm not sure I've ever actually seen her eat other food.
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