What is the name of the woman democrat who has been recently named to chair the House Ethics Committee.?

Question

Recently Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appointed a democrat woman to chair the 110th Congress House Ethics Committee. I would like to know her name and anything else you can provide on her background.

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Nancy Pelosi, Political Figure

Born: 26 March 1940
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland
Best Known As: House minority leader, 2002-present

Name at birth: Nancy D'Alesandro

Democrat Nancy Pelosi is a U.S. Representative from California's 8th District. She has been the House Minority Leader since 2002. Pelosi graduated from Trinity College in Washington, D.C. in 1962, then married businessman Paul Pelosi and moved to his native San Francisco. She worked her way up through the state Democratic party before entering Congress after a special election in 1987. The 8th District, which includes much of San Francisco, is considered one of the more liberal districts in the United States, and thus Pelosi has often been accused of extreme liberalism by her political opponents. She was named Minority Leader in November of 2002, becoming the first woman to lead a political party in the history of the U.S. Congress. She became the presumptive Speaker of the House after Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in the national elections of November 2006.


Pelosi's father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. was a congressman from Maryland (1939-47) and mayor of Baltimore (1947-59). Her brother, Thomas J. D'Alesandro III, also was mayor of Baltimore from 1967-71... Nancy Pelosi was first elected to congress in a special election to replace Representative Sala Burton, who died in office.