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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will not be seeking re-election after completing her current term, she announced in a video on Thursday morning.
Pelosi has been a power player in U.S. politics for decades, having served as House speaker from 2007 to 2011 and then again from 2019 to 2023.
She first came to Congress in 1987 after winning a special election to replace the late Rep. Sala Burton, D-Calif.
Rumors of her potential retirement had swirled for days ahead of the explosive news on Thursday, but Pelosi's spokesman said she would discuss her political future after California voted on a referendum allowing state Democrats to redraw the state's congressional map.
That measure, proposition 50, passed overwhelmingly on Tuesday night.
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