Passing President Biden's agenda would be a huge test for Nancy Pelosi, one of the most effective House speakers in history.
Progressives threaten to block Biden’s infrastructure plan as negotiations around the broader social spending plan stall.
“She has an ability to get votes when it’s just extraordinarily difficult,” said Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and decades-long student of Congress. That’s why Pelosi is widely regarded as one of the most effective speakers in history, with a list of achievements that includes not just the Affordable Care Act but twice helping rescue the country from economic collapse, first in 2009 amid the Great Recession and again last year after the worldwide shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pelosi has said passing Biden’s massive bricks-and-mortar infrastructure bill and his cradle-to-grave social spending package would be the “culmination of my career in Congress,” though she bristles at any suggestion she plans to depart anytime soon. “Get out of here,” she told reporters who broached the RBut it’s Pelosi, 81, who’s put a time limit on her tenure, in a 2018 L.A.
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