⁍ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will seek to stay on as head of the U.S. House of Representatives if her fellow Democrats keep their majority.

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⁍ Pelosi, 80, again took the mantle of House speaker after her Democrats won the lower chamber of Congress in 2018.

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⁍ She previously held the top job of speaker from 2007 to 2011.

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– Nancy Pelosi is up for a second term as speaker of the House if Democrats win control of the chamber in next month’s election, she tells CNN. “Yes, I am,” the 80-year-old says when asked if she plans to seek a third term. Pelosi took over as speaker after Democrats won the House in 2018, notes Reuters, and she previously served as speaker from 2007 to 2011. “We have to win the Senate,” Pelosi says. “We have to take back the Senate.”