The Bay Area’s Jackie Speier is retiring after more than 40 years in public life that began when she was shot five times in a deadly ambush in Guyana.
an opponent challenged Speier, wondering whether she’d ever fired one of the weapons targeted for extinction.Advertisement
Nancy Pelosi’s filmmaking daughter turns hours of intimate footage into a look at the House speaker’s home life, political and legislative battles. Her husband gave her a pass, she said, referring good-naturedly to the push-pull of marriage — a one-time deal, it turned out. “It’s been the greatest privilege of my life,” she said of her time on Capitol Hill. But she added that “it’s a pretty dysfunctional place right now.”Her dismal critique went on.
Despite strong public support for a nationwide ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and for other common-sense measures, such as requiring background checks for private and gun-show sales, Congress managed to pass only modest legislation this summer after a string of particularly horrific mass shootings.— but Speier was not impressed. “The frustration I have is that it takes so long to move the needle just a fraction,” she said.
“I remember pressing my cheek to the floor and feeling how cold it was and this whole sense of resignation kind of came over me,” she said. “I thought, ‘This is it, I’m going to die here in what we think is this sanctuary of democracy’” after surviving Jonestown.
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