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Biographical

Family:

Press Releases

Education

• Trinity College - AB, political science (1958-1962)

• Institute of Notre Dame (Baltimore, Md.) - High school diploma (1958)

Office History

Election Results

• 2021 (Nov. 3, 2020 election)

  12th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 77.63%

  Democrat
  Shahid Buttar, 22.37%

  Democrat

• 2019 (Nov. 6, 2018 election)

  12th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 86.82%

  Democrat
  Lisa Remmer, 13.18%

  Republican

• 2017 (Nov. 8, 2016 election)

  12th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 80.87%

  Democrat
  Preston Picus, 19.13%

  Non-designated

• 2015 (Nov. 4, 2014 election)

  12th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 83.25%

  Democrat
  John Dennis, 16.75%

  Republican

• 2013 (Nov. 6, 2012 election)

  12th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 85.08%

  Democrat
  John Dennis, 14.92%

  Republican

• 2011 (Nov. 2, 2010 election)

  8th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 80.10%

  Democrat
  John Dennis, 15.12%

  Republican
  Gloria E La Riva, 2.46%

  Peace and Freedom
  Philip Berg, 2.31%

  Libertarian

• 2009 (Nov. 4, 2008 election)

  8th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 71.87%

  Democrat
  Cindy Sheehan, 16.17%

  Independent
  Dana Walsh, 9.68%

  Republican
  Philip Z Berg, 2.28%

  Libertarian

• 2007 (Nov. 7, 2006 election)

  8th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 80.39%

  Democrat
  Mike Denunzio, 10.72%

  Republican
  Krissy Keefer, 7.39%

  Green
  Philip Zimt Berg, 1.49%

  Libertarian

• 2005 (Nov. 2, 2004 election)

  8th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 82.95%

  Democrat
  Jennifer Depalma, 11.51%

  Republican
  Leilani Dowell, 3.53%

  Peace and Freedom

• 2003 (Nov. 5, 2002 election)

  8th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 79.58%

  Democrat
  G Michael German, 12.50%

  Republican
  Jay Pond, 6.25%

  Green
  Ira Spivack, 1.66%

  Libertarian

• 2001 (Nov. 7, 2000 election)

  8th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 84.41%

  Democrat
  Adam Sparks, 11.74%

  Republican
  Erik Bauman, 2.62%

  Libertarian
  David L Smithstein, 1.22%

  Natural Law

• 1999 (Nov. 3, 1998 election)

  8th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 85.83%

  Democrat
  David J Martz, 12.05%

  Republican
  David Smithstein, 2.12%

  Natural Law

• 1997 (Nov. 5, 1996 election)

  8th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 84.34%

  Democrat
  Justin Raimondo, 12.39%

  Republican
  David Smithstein, 3.27%

  Natural Law

• 1995 (Nov. 8, 1994 election)

  8th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 81.85%

  Democrat
  Elsa C Cheung, 18.15%

  Republican

• 1993 (Nov. 3, 1992 election)

  8th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 82.47%

  Democrat
  Marc Wolin, 11.04%

  Republican
  Cesar G Cadabes, 3.25%

  Peace and Freedom
  James R Elwood, 3.23%

  Libertarian

• 1991 (Nov. 6, 1990 election)

  5th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 77.18%

  Democrat
  Alan Nichols, 22.82%

  Republican

• 1989 (Nov. 8, 1988 election)

  5th Congressional District of California
  Nancy Patricia Pelosi, 76.41%

  Democrat
  Bruce Michael O'Neill, 19.28%

  Republican
  Theodore Ted Zuur, 2.27%

  Peace and Freedom
  Sam Grove, 2.04%

  Libertarian

Employment History

• Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (1985-1986)

  Finance Chair

• 1984 Democratic National Convention (1984)

  Host Committee Chair

• California Democratic Party (1981-1983)

  Chair

• California Democratic Party (1977-1981)

  Chair for Northern California

• Jerry Brown for President (1976)
  Edmund Gerald Brown (Jerry)

  Campaign Chair

• Sen. Daniel Brewster (D-MD) (1963)

  Intern

Associated Organizations

Membership:

• Wheelchair Foundation

  Honorary Member

Board membership:

• International Women's Democracy Center

  Congressional Advisory Board Member

• Paul and Nancy Pelosi Charitable Foundation

  CFO/Secretary

• National Italian American Foundation

• National Organization of Italian American Women

• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.)

  Ex Officio Member, Board of Trustees

Place of worship:

• St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church (San Francisco, Calif.)

Opposing Super PAC:

• Stop Pelosi PAC

Election campaign:

• Nancy Pelosi for Congress (California)

Own leadership PAC:

• PAC to the Future

Elected office:

• Democratic National Committee (1976-1996)

  Member

Awards

• Presidential Medal of Freedom (White House) (May 2024)

• Champion of Healthcare Innovation (Healthcare Leadership Council) (July 2023)

• Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Award (Armenian Assembly of America Inc.) (Nov. 2022)

• Honorary Doctor of Law (Smith College) (Sept. 2021)

• Spirit of Enterprise Award (U.S. Chamber of Commerce) (June 2020)

• Golden Triangle Award (National Farmers Union) (Sept. 2019)

• Profile in Courage Award (John F. Kennedy Library Foundation) (May 2019)

• Honoree, Trailblazer Honors (VH1) (2019)

• Distinguished Community Health Leadership Award (National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.) (2019)

• Honorary Doctorate of Law (Mount Holyoke College) (May 2018)

• Community Health Leadership Award (National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.) (2018)

• Porker of the Month (Citizens Against Government Waste) (Feb. 2017)

• Distinguished Community Health Leadership Award (National Association of Community Health Centers Inc.) (2017)

• Porker of the Year (Citizens Against Government Waste) (2017)

• Golden Triangle Award (National Farmers Union) (Sept. 2016)

• Outstanding Government Service Award (American Medical Association) (2016)

• Dr. Nathan Davis Award (American Medical Association) (2016)

• Foremother Award (National Center for Health Research) (2016)

• Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun Award (Government of Japan) (May 8, 2015)

• National Women's Hall of Fame Inductee (National Women's Hall of Fame) (2013)

• Leadership Award (National Marine Sanctuary Foundation) (2008)

• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Government of Italy) (June 2007)

• Special Achievement Award for Public Advocacy (National Italian American Foundation) (2007)

• Most Fascinating Person of 2006 (Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People) (2006)

• Champion of Science Award (The Science Coalition) (Jan. 2004)

Activities and Interests

• Hobbies: New York Times crossword puzzles, watching Jeopardy
  

Publications

• Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters (2009)

Official Signature

Contact Information

• Email, member official contact form
• 
  Email, scheduling:
  scheduler.pelosi@mail.house.gov

Privately Financed Travel

Personal Financial Disclosures

Disclosures as a member:

Foreign Gifts

• 8/31/2008-9/2/2008: 3 dinners, 2 lunches, ground transportation, air transportation Tokyo to Hiroshima from Japan
• 9/8/2009: 4' x 6' silk screen of the "Yangtze River Gorge," circa 2009 from China ($500.00)
• 6/15/2009: three E. Marinella scarves from Italy ($877.50)
• 8/5/2008: Handmade wool rug, approximately 5' by 8', cream ground with red center medallion from Pakistan ($585.00)
• 6/21/2007: 1 framed, colored-glass and stone painting from Vietnam ($350.00)
• 2/19/2009: Murano glass pair 15" tall candlesticks with matching centerpiece footed bowl, gold iridescent glass signed, 20th century from Italy ($950.00)
• 5/13/2010: 8x10 handmade Afghan wool rug, tribal pattern, beige, blues, and red from Afghanistan ($600.00)
• 9/16/2010: Hand-knotted Persian carpet from Qatar ($985.00)
• 5/8/2010: 6x9 handmade Afghan wool rug, Bokhara pattern, greens with cream from Afghanistan ($500.00)
• 10/2/2010: Strand of black pearls from Philippines ($600.00)

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Congressional Staff

Caucuses

• California Democratic Congressional Delegation
• Congressional Apprenticeship Caucus
• Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus
• Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues
• Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues
• Congressional Caucus on Parkinson's Disease
• Congressional Diabetes Caucus
• Congressional Equality Caucus
• Congressional Fire Services Caucus
• Congressional Friends of Denmark Caucus
• Congressional Heart and Stroke Coalition
• Congressional Hellenic Caucus
• Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus
• Congressional Internet Caucus
• Congressional Italian-American Caucus
• Congressional Native American Caucus
• Congressional Oceans Caucus
• Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus
• Congressional Study Group on Germany
• Congressional Ukrainian Caucus
• Congressional Veterans Jobs Caucus
• Congressional Wine Caucus
• Democratic Women’s Caucus
• Hidden Heroes Caucus for Military and Veteran Caregivers, Chair and Co-Founder
• House Baltic Caucus
• House Democratic Caucus
• House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee
• House Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus
• House Task Force on Election Reform, Chair and Founder

Caught Our Eye

• Former Hill intern returns as press secretary

  Posted by Heavyn Lester on May 8, 2024
  After four years at Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid LLC, Meredith Rogers is now press secretary to Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.). read more

• Democrats are spending more of their 2023 MRA, LegiStorm data shows

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on June 12, 2023
  Democrats are leading the House in actually using their 2023 Members' Representational Allowances, according to a LegiStorm analysis. read more

• Interest groups have shied away from Taiwan for years

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 2, 2022
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has landed in Taiwan, leading a congressional delegation on a controversial trip to the East Asian country. But for interest groups who send members and staff on privately funded trips, the destination hasn't been favored for close to a decade. read more

• State Department adviser serving the servers

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 21, 2017
  A State Department adviser with seven years of Hill experience is now making sure that Congress gives full-service treatment to the country's service economies. read more

• Ex-Pelosi aide leaves Interior for House Rules Committee

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 14, 2017
  Upon ex-Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.)'s confirmation as secretary of the Interior, Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) deputy floor director has returned to the Hill from a two-year stint with the department. read more

• Farewell John Boehner - Departing Speaker gets bipartisan sendoff

  Posted by Steve Shapiro on Oct. 30, 2015
  It is Rep. John Boehner's (R-Ohio) last day in Congress after a five-year speakership and a 24-year career. When he first announced his surprise resignation in late September, it was met with empathy, cynicism and some errant cheering from his own party. Now, members this week have paused to give their final farewell as the gavel passes to an apprehensive and unenvied Paul Ryan. read more

• Posted by Garrett Snedeker on Feb. 15, 2013
  A former aide to several well-known Democrats has acquired his first lobbying clients with his new firm, stalwart Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti. read more

• Posted by Garrett Snedeker on Feb. 9, 2012
  The recent departure of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)'s chief of staff, Terri McCullough, has provided a window into the finances of a noted public affairs and lobbying firm that her well-known husband helped run. read more

• Posted by Jock Friedly on Sept. 26, 2011
  When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lost her speakership, she also lost her top communications aide, Brendan Daly, to the private sector. Not that you would know that from the termination financial disclosure he filed earlier this year. read more

• Staff financial disclosures reveal interesting tidbits

  Posted by LegiStorm on Aug. 5, 2010
  Dick Meltzer took nearly a $1 million-a-year pay cut to leave his job as a lobbyist and work for Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Bill Hughes earned $320,000 in 14 months between Senate jobs. Kathy Damato earned $192,000 working for Sen. Chris Dodd's (D-Conn.) campaign - about $30,000 more than she could have made working for his official office. read more

• House expenses online

  Posted by LegiStorm on Nov. 30, 2009
  The House of Representatives today released its full expenses online for the first time. read more

• Pelosi files amended financial disclosure

  Posted by LegiStorm on June 12, 2009
  We have uploaded financial disclosures for members of the House that have been made newly available since our posting of disclosures earlier this week. read more

• House financial disclosures reveal big losses

  Posted by LegiStorm on June 11, 2009
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband lost between $100,001 and $1 million on an investment in American International Group according to her 2009 personal financial disclosure. read more

• House to post expense records online

  Posted by LegiStorm on June 3, 2009
  Closing a huge information gap, the House of Representatives expects to put the expense records of all representatives online. read more

• Foreign Gifts database on LegiStorm

  Posted by LegiStorm on May 12, 2008
  LegiStorm has launched a new database of all foreign gifts (whether tangible gifts or travel) received by members of Congress and their staff in the past decade.
  
  Our database covers from 1999 to the present. In that time, more than 450 gifts in all were reported having been received by congressmen and their aides by foreign governments. These gifts include tangible ones, such as a ceremonial sword, or travel, such as a ride in a military helicopter. Only gifts above what the law has determined to be "minimal value" is considered reportable. The Senate defines "minimal value" as $100, while the House and executive branch adjust the value by inflation. In 2008, the value for the House and executive branch was $335.
  
  Roll Call's Jennifer Yachnin had a story this morning on the subject of foreign gifts: "Even as new ethics restrictions have made it difficult for Members and staff to accept gifts — aside from token baseball caps or T-shirts — one area remains where lawmakers and their staffs can collect trinkets more or less guilt-free: foreign travel."
  
  Gifts and trips from foreign governments are easier to come by than ones provided by domestic interest groups because the ethics clampdown caused largely by the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal has not affected these rules. Foreign gifts are also governed by a separate law, the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act.
  
  Diplomatic protocol often requires the giving and acceptance of gifts. It could be considered rude to turn down a gift from a foreign country.
  
  Interestingly, despite dozens of tangible gifts reported by the Senate and hundreds to executive branch officials, only one House official - former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) - disclosed receiving gifts in the past five years. His largest gift was a $10,000 ceremonial dagger encrusted with precious metals and gems that was bestowed upon him by Morocco. While Hastert filed, his disclosures did not meet the legal requirement that they be filed within 60 days. Instead, they were all filed when he was leaving office and often covered items received years before.
  
  The lack of other House disclosures is odd, especially given that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other House official have made high-profile trips overseas. Yet their lack of disclosures suggests that they have not received the customary treatment accorded to others, including even some Senate aides. House officials claimed to Roll Call that they have received gifts, but no gifts other than Hastert's were worth more than minimal amounts. But they also acknowledged they have had only a dozen items appraised in recent years.
  
  The significance of the disclosures is that federal officials may keep any items that do not meet the reporting threshold. Items of greater value must be turned in to the government, or alternatively can be purchased by the recipient for the appraised value.

• LegiStorm's new blog

  Posted by LegiStorm on April 2, 2008
  Since we started, we at LegiStorm have had a lot of things we have wanted to tell our site users. We are a site primarily of data but the data can tell stories. read more