Evening With Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Join us on March 22 at 6:00 p.m. CDT as we welcome the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives and one of the most consequential political figures of our times. Fittingly, Speaker Pelosi will be with us during Women’s History Month. In 2007, she became the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives, and made history again in 2019 when she was once again elected Speaker, becoming the first person to regain the position in over half a century.

The conversation will be moderated by Mark K. Updegrove, President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation.

About the Speaker:

For 34 years, Speaker Pelosi has represented San Francisco, California’s 12th District, in Congress. She has led House Democrats for 16 years and previously served as House Democratic Whip. In 2013, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the American women’s rights movement.

Among her many accomplishments, Speaker Pelosi led House passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in early 2009 to create and save millions of American jobs and provide a tax cut to 95% of working Americans. Speaker Pelosi was the architect of the landmark Affordable Care Act, which has guaranteed protections for all Americans with pre-existing medical conditions, ended annual and lifetime limits on health coverage, and provided affordable health coverage for tens of millions more Americans.

Speaker Pelosi also led the Congress in passing strong Wall Street reforms to rein in big banks and protect consumers and the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which expands educational opportunities and reforms the financial aid system to save billions of taxpayers’ dollars. Additional key legislation passed into law included the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to restore the ability of women and all workers to access our judicial system to fight pay discrimination; legislation to provide health care for 11 million American children; hate crimes legislation; an increase in the minimum wage for the first time in 10 years; the largest college aid expansion since the GI bill, and a new GI education bill for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. As Speaker, Pelosi has made the climate crisis her flagship issue, enacting comprehensive energy legislation that raised vehicle fuel efficiency standards for the first time in 32 years.