Former House Speaker John Boehner paid a tearful tribute to Nancy Pelosi at the unveiling of her official portrait in the U.S. Capitol.
Boehner, R-Ohio, who had a reputation for frequently tearing up when he was speaker, offered warm words for Pelosi, D-Calif., the outgoing speaker, who has often been demonized by GOP lawmakers.
"My girls told me, 'Tell the speaker how much we admire her,'" Boehner said, choking back tears as he spoke."As if you couldn't tell, my girls are Democrats," he said to laughs at the ceremony in the Capitol. Pelosi, who in 2007 became the first female speaker of the House, had joked about Boehner’s penchant for tears when she spoke at his portrait ceremony in 2019.
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