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Nancy Pelosi: “We've been waiting over 200 years.”

Featuring: Nancy Pelosi, Democratic | Speaker Emerita, U.S. House California, District 11

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Published | Video Starts at 36:21

And this one and that one and that and that. So that's the way it is. There's a pecking order. I said, yeah, and there's an election. And We've been waiting over 200 years. And so much we were pecking with it. Then they would say things like, and these are people I love. I mean, they're just really nice, but, you know, so they just didn't know. (36:21–36:24)

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Asserts that women have been waiting over 200 years for leadership positions in Congress.

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