These days Nancy Pelosi is the physical embodiment of why the Democratic Party has collapsed into an embarrassing mess. At ...

Nancy Pelosi has represented San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades. Challengers are lining up as she weighs ...

At age 47, after her youngest child had left for college, Pelosi was encouraged by a dying congresswoman to run for her seat. She threw 100 house parties, recruited 4,000 volunteers and raised a ...

MARK LEVIN (HOST): And now we have Nancy Pelosi up there -- and Nancy Pelosi's mentally ill, just so you understand. She's mentally ill, she has the shakes, her face with old age is malformed.

Pelosi, 83, stepped down as the Democratic House leader last November, but the speaker emerita continues to represent San Francisco in Congress Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE.