from the house of representatives, outgoing speaker, nancy pelosi, announced that she will step down as leader of the democrats in the house. with the new congress convening in january. pelosi represented cannon for an s 12 district and 35 years. and she plans to say on in the house as a . it s hard to quantify the impact that she s had in american politics. having to certify the speaker twice, in the the mayor of paul tomorrow, and the sister of the mayor of baltimore. pelosi s own political career. which began in 1987. has been literally, undeniably historic. she was the first woman to be beating house minority whip. the first woman to be the house minority leader. and the first woman to ever be elected speaker of the house of representatives. in 2019, she made history again becoming the first person in six decades to reclaim the speakers gavel after losing it. she also became the oldest
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get over it. jon: well, what is the solution? i mean, they tried this in massachusetts. be that doesn t work if that doesn t work, what do you suggest? is. well, president obama i mean, governor romney yesterday actually proposed a pretty good plan for the federal government. this would allow more competition, allow different states to experiment. don t impose a mandate, but go back to a more private market model where you allow individuals to control your own health care, to remove the tax subsidy that currently exists only for employer-sponsored health care, let individuals get that same kind of subsidy, create more of a market for individual health care plans and small business plans. and that would help reduce the costs of health care. that is a good proposal he made yesterday, and if it were passed nationally, would make a difference. but it s very different from what he did in massachusetts and very different from what president obama has passed. jon: all right. paul gigot,
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