Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, held back tears as she delivered an emotional remembrance of John Lewis at his funeral in Atlanta.
Pelosi said: ‘We come with a flag flown over the Capitol the night that John passed. When this flag flew there…it waved goodbye to John. Our friend, our mentor, our colleague. This beautiful man’
In This Story: Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician serving as a congresswoman from California and the speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi is the only woman in U.S. history to serve as Speaker and the highest-ranking female elected official in United States history. She is also the dean of California’s congressional delegation. As House speaker, Pelosi is second in the presidential line of succession, after the vice president.