Episode 10: A Woman's Place Is in the House

Political Junkie Podcast · Jan 20, 2023 · 36m

When President George W. Bush spoke the words “Madame Speaker” in his State of the Union address to the 110th Congress on January 23, 2007 he acknowledged one of the biggest changes in American political life since the 19th amendment to Constitution was ratified. Ten weeks earlier under the leadership of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, American voters had swept Democrats back into power after 12 years in the political wilderness.

Looking back on it, the midterm election of 2006 was a turning point. The United States had been at war in Iraq and Afghanistan for five years, and it wasn’t going…