Pelosi pledges to serve no more than four years as speaker

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., reached a deal with insurgent Democratic lawmakers to limit her time as the top leader to just one more term, unless she gets the support of two-thirds of the Democratic caucus.

Pelosi, 78, said the deal would impose a three-term limit on her own tenure and all senior leadership posts. The proposal would be retroactive, which means her two terms as Speaker from 2007 to 2011 count.

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