“Watching her, marveling at her,” Mr. Schumer mentioned, “was one in every of my proudest moments ever of my time in workplace.”
However he mentioned Ms. Pelosi had impressed him nicely earlier than that.
“From the beginning, it was apparent: This new member had all of it,” Mr. Schumer mentioned. “She knew the problems, she knew the politics, and most significantly, she knew what she was preventing for.”
Ms. Pelosi’s portrait, painted by the artist Ronald Sherr, was accomplished in 2014 and has been in storage ever since. Within the portray, Ms. Pelosi is pictured wearing a maroon swimsuit with a heavy string of pearls, holding the speaker’s gavel, her eyes centered on one thing out of sight however forward of her.
Mr. Sherr died final week.
The partitions of the speaker’s foyer — a protracted, carpeted hall exterior the Home chamber the place members collect between votes — function the portraits of greater than 20 former audio system, with a number of extra hanging within the halls across the Capitol. The custom of hanging portraits dates again to 1852, with the donation of a portrait of Henry Clay, who served as Home speaker thrice, from the artist Giuseppe Fagnani. The Home started mandating oil work of the audio system in 1910.
The portrait unveiling ceremony capped what has turn into an prolonged consideration and celebration of Ms. Pelosi’s legacy since she introduced final month on the Home ground that she would step down from management however stay in Congress.
On Tuesday night time, a documentary by her daughter, the filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, was launched on HBO, providing a sympathetic behind-the-scenes take a look at the Democratic Social gathering’s most dominant political operator of the previous 20 years. The movie included intimate scenes of the always-coiffed Ms. Pelosi relentlessly working the telephone whereas making her mattress, wearing pajamas, in addition to behind-the-scenes footage of her whipping votes for the Reasonably priced Care Act.
Ms. Pelosi appeared moved by the outpouring on Wednesday. Of the tribute from Mr. Boehner, who is understood to choke up publicly in large moments, she joked, “I might have been just a little disillusioned if he didn’t get emotional.”
Supply: NY Times