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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi discusses experiences in her early days as a woman in Congress and what she calls the "secret sauce club." She recalls how she learned to be aggressive as her male colleagues would rarely ask, "What do you think?"
Nancy Pelosi explains her reasons for becoming the Democratic House Leader, saying she "knew how to win elections." Pelosi says she wanted Democrats to gain the majority in order to help the American public.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi comments on the growing rift between the needs of teachers and the understanding of these needs by politicians, as revealed in standardized testing. Pelosi emphasizes the need to compensate teachers for the quality of the service they provide and states that Congress will take on the No Child Left Behind Act if a democratic president is elected.