After 40 years in Congress, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has revealed what comes next.
Pelosi has announced the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at University of California, Berkeley, which the school described as a “nonpartisan” academic center set to open in January 2027.
During her speakership in 2009, House Democrats achieved an all-time congressional record for party-line voting.
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“I viewed this as a liberation for me from the political, not politics, but partisanship,” Pelosi, 86, told CNN in an article published Monday. “Because you’re going to an academic institution. It’s about what our founders had in mind with our Constitution, and it’s a beautiful story to tell.”
The institute will sit inside Berkeley’s political science department, focusing on research, civic engagement, and training future leaders,
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