Nancy Pelosi is the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. She is a member of the Democrat party. She was elected to Congress in 1987 and is currently serving her 17th term, representing the state of California. She has served twice as Speaker (first in 2007-2011) and took up her current position in 2016. She is an outward critic of Donald Trump and his administration; in early 2020, she tore up her official copy of Trump’s State of the Union address. She is widely considered the most powerful Speaker of the House in American history.